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THIO has received 2 prior orphan drug designations, and the agent has shown promise in preclinical studies for the treatment of glioblastoma.

The application for lisocabtagene maraleucel in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma has been accepted by the FDA, following positive results from the TRANSCEND CLL 004 study.

Johanna Kaufmann, PhD, discusses promising preclinical findings on first-in-class oncolytic viral therapy in breast cancer treatment.

Paul Lammers, MD, MSc, talks about the ongoing clinical trial investigating TAC-01 in HER2-expressing solid tumors.

The phase 3 EMERALD-1 trial has met its primary end point and continues to assess durvalumab combined with transarterial chemoembolization and bevacizumab for the secondary end point of overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

In patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer of the adenocarcinoma phenotype, the combination of BXCL701 and pembrolizumab led to a median overall survival of 15.5 months.

The updated indication limits the use of pembrolizumab and chemotherapy to tumors expressing PD-L1 as determined by an FDA-approved test.

Findings from the phase 2 AVATAR trial suggest stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy may postpone the use of systemic therapy, offering patients with ER-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer another option.

Fruquintinib is a new, well-tolerated option for the treatment of patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Combining sotorasib and panitumumab improved progression-free survival for patients with KRAS G12C mutation in metastatic colorectal cancer, based on the phase 3 CodeBreaK 300 trial.

In a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 EMBARK study, enzalutamide alone or with leuprolide acetate improved metastatic-free survival in men with high-risk prostate cancer following radiotherapy.

CMG901 was active and had a manageable safety profile in a heavily pretreated population of patients with CLDN18.2-positive gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Irrespective of PD-L1 expression, patients treated with domvanalimab, zimberelimab, and chemotherapy in arm A1 of the phase 2 EDGE-Gastric study demonstrated promising overall response rate and 6-month progression-free survival results.

The combination of SRK-181 and pembrolizumab demonstrated improvements in objective response rate among patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma in a phase 1 proof-of-concept study.

In an interview, Mwanasha Merrill discussed the implication of findings from a phase 2 trial of pembrolizumab after autologous stem cell transplantation for the treatment of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, MD, discusses the results of the phase 3 THOR study of erdafitinib vs pembrolizumab in pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer with select FGFR alterations.

Data from the phase 2 of the RINGSIDE trial have led the FDA to grant an orphan drug designation to AL102 as a potential therapeutic option for patients with desmoid tumors.

Selinexor maintenance therapy shows potential in bettering survival compared with placebo in patients with TP53 wild-type recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer.

As a monotherapy, bispecific antibodies have demonstrated antitumor activity in heavily pretreated patients with B-cell and T-cell hematologic malignancies, but much work is needed to determine the optimal setting.

Bradley McGregor, MD, discusses the rationale behind the multi-institutional, prospective, single-arm phase 2 trial of cabozantinib, nivolumab, and ipilimumab for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma with variant histologies.

Encouraging progression-free survival and ctDNA molecular response rates were seen with SD-101 delivered via pressure-enabled drug delivery plus intravenous checkpoint inhibitors in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma with liver metastases.

In an interview, Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, discussed the phase 2 DESTINY-PanTumor02 trial and the data on fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of patients with HER2-expressing cancers.

Findings from the phase 2 RAMP 201 trial show avutometinib plus defactinib demonstrates robust efficacy in patients with recurrent low-grade serious ovarian cancer.

The recent announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has turned attention again to RNA therapeutic vaccines and a better understanding of RNA biology.

Nirav Shah, MD, discusses long-term data from the phase 1/2 BRUIN study which evaluated pirtobrutinib in mantle cell lymphoma, and next steps for evaluating the agent.

Vijaya Raj Bhatt, MBBS, MS, discusses background and findings from a multicenter, phase 2 study of ruxolitinib for the treatment of patients with steroid refractory sclerotic chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Retrospective data shows that a multidisciplinary surgical approach may improve survival in patients with ovarian cancer.

With an investigational new drug granted to ZH9 by the FDA, a clinical development program for the treatment of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer can be initiated.