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January 14, 2021

The FDA granted approval to the antineoplastic tyrosine kinase inhibitor, crizotinib, as treatment of pediatric patients 1 year of age and older and young adults with ALK alteration-positive relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

January 14, 2021

Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen PET imaging demonstrated the ability to detect metastatic thyroid cancer but resulted in a lower detection rate compared with 2-[18F]FDG PET for thyroid cancer lesion visualization.

January 14, 2021

The investigational, potent, oral CDK9 inhibitor, zotiraciclib in combination with temozolomide, demonstrated early improvement in progression-free survival as treatment of patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas, meeting the primary end point of the phase 1B 17-C-0009 trial clinical trial.

January 13, 2021

Myriam Chalabi, MD, discussed the utility of microsatellite instability testing in gastrointestinal cancers and highlights the current role of immunotherapy for these patient populations.

January 13, 2021

The FDA has granted an Orphan Drug Designation to the B-cell maturation antigen BCMA-targeting tri-specific T cell activating recombinant protein construct, HPN217 for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

January 12, 2021

Patients with tissue tumor mutational burden-high solid tumors represent a subset of patients who could have a robust tumor response to the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab as monotherapy, suggesting tTMB may be a novel and useful predictor of response in patients with previously treated recurrent or metastatic advanced solid tumors, including thyroid cancer.

January 12, 2021

The sustainability of efficacy and safety with frontline ibrutinib-based therapy used to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who have TP53 aberrations was demonstrated, according to 4-year follow-up result of a pooled analysis.

January 12, 2021

The FDA granted 2 Fast Track designations to the cavrotolimod for 2, including in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma who are refractory to prior anti-PD-1 blockade and in combination with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 in patients with locally advanced or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma who are refractory to prior anti-PD-1/PD-L1 blockade.

January 12, 2021

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, discusses the rationale for exploring OP-1250 monotherapy in an open-label first-in-human multi center phase 1/2 study in adult patients with advanced and/or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

January 11, 2021

Patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer who have resistance to the ROS1 and ALK inhibitor crizotinib had intracranial and systemic responses to brigatinib, according to findings from a small cohort of patients.