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In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, discussed the potential role of an add-back strategy as treatment of patients with myelofibrosis who no longer benefited from prior ruxolitinib.

The FDA has accepted a Biologics License Application for narsoplimab and granted it Priority Review for use as treatment of hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy.

In the phase 2 JACCRO GC-07 trial, patients with stage III gastric cancer who received the combination of S-1 and docetaxel in the adjuvant setting had a 29% reduction in the risk of relapse.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, provided important highlights from the DESTINY-Gastric01 trial and explained the overall impact of the FDA approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan for oncologists treating patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer or GEJ cancers.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Maria E. Cabanillas, MD, discussed the use of larotrectinib as treatment of patients with thyroid cancer and the pooled findings from 2 larotrectinib trials.

The combination of axitinib and octreotide LAR demonstrated activity and a tolerable safety profile in patients with advanced G1-2 extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in a phase 2/3 study.

The FDA has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of adult patients with HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based regimen.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to the subcutaneous formulation of daratumumab with hyaluronidase-fihj as treatment of patients with light chain amyloidosis.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Vivek Subbiah, MD, discussed the role of selpercatinib as treatment of patients with RET fusion-positive NSCLC, which is supported by findings from the LIBRETTO-001 study.

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.

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.

Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy with tisagenlecleucel has shown efficacy for the treatment of patients with extensively treated and refractory follicular lymphoma, according to preliminary phase 2 data from the ELARA clinical trial.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Nina Shah, MD, discussed the findings from the KarMMA study supporting the use of idecabtagene vicleucel as treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

The first patient with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme has been dosed with the first-in-class small molecule enzastaurin in combination with temozolomide and radiotherapy in the phase 3 ENGAGE clinical trial with an aim of determining the overall survival outcome of the drug in this patient population.

The FDA granted an Orphan Drug designation to the novel immunotherapy PVSRIPO for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma of stage IIB-IV.

Ten-year overall survival is low among patients with acute myeloid leukemia , but an analysis demonstrated that survival is shorter for older patients treated with chemotherapy alone, according to published findings.

Noelle G. Cloven, MD, discussed the current cervical cancer treatment paradigm, the unmet needs that still remain to be addressed, and encouraging new directions of research in clinical trials in honor of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.

The FDA has updated the Prescribing Information for the approved agent darolutamide to include improvement in overall survival in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, as well as other secondary end point data, from the phase 3 ARAMIS clinical trial.

A review of the trending news in oncology online for the week of January 8, 2021, including recent news from the FDA on the cancer treatment paradigm, updates in oncology, and the latest information regarding COVID-19.

The FDA has granted a Fast Track designation to zenocutuzumab as a potential treatment option for patients with metastatic solid tumors harboring NRG1 gene fusions that have progressed on standard of care therapy.

Rituximab added to standard anthracycline-based chemotherapy demonstrated significant improvements in progression-free survival as well as overall survival as treatment of patients with follicular lymphoma, according to 35-year follow-up results of patients treated through the Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group.