ALK Inhibitor Outperforms Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Resected Lung Cancer Adjuvant alectinib reduces disease-free survival hazard by 76% Oct 24, 2023
Antibody-Drug Conjugate Improves PFS in Pretreated Breast, Lung Cancers Still some unanswered questions about benefit over other drug regimens, expert says Oct 24, 2023
Randomized Trial Backs HIF-2a Inhibition in Advanced RCC After immunotherapy-TKI failure, belzutifan produces better outcomes versus everolimus Oct 24, 2023
More Data Support Adding Immunotherapy to Chemo in Advanced Endometrial Cancer PFS doubled and OS improved, driven by mismatch repair-deficient disease Oct 23, 2023
Antibody-Drug Conjugate Boosts Survival in Recurrent/Metastatic Cervical Cancer Tisotumab vedotin reduced risk of death by 30% compared with chemotherapy Oct 23, 2023
Targeted Combination Wins in KRAS-Positive Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Standard dose of sotorasib plus panitumumab reduced risk of progression by 51% vs standard care Oct 23, 2023
New First-Line Standard for Lung Cancers With EGFR Exon 20 Insertions Adding amivantamab to chemotherapy improved PFS, induced more rapid and durable responses Oct 23, 2023
'Practice-Changing' Data in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Strategies involving immunotherapy, induction chemo move the needle for first time in decades Oct 23, 2023
RET Inhibitor Posts Frontline Wins in Medullary Thyroid Cancer, NSCLC Two randomized studies demonstrate significantly improved PFS against standard regimens Oct 22, 2023
Landmark Trial Produces New First-Line Standard for Advanced Bladder Cancer Enfortumab vedotin-pembrolizumab doubles OS, PFS versus chemotherapy Oct 22, 2023
Bi-Specific T-Cell Engager Active in Small-Cell Lung Cancer in Third Line and Beyond Tarlatamab achieves 40% overall response rate at the dose selected for continued evaluation Oct 22, 2023
Multi-Agent Treatment Offers Hope in Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Durvalumab plus olaparib, or alone, paired with chemo boosts PFS in DUO-E trial Oct 21, 2023
Tebentafusp's OS Benefit in Uveal Melanoma Holds Up at 3 Years And early ctDNA reductions correlated with survival Oct 21, 2023
Pembrolizumab in First-Line Boosts PFS in HER2-Positive Stomach Cancer But label update planned after potential harm observed in PD-L1-negative subgroup Oct 20, 2023
Hand Cooling, Compression Both Effective for Nerve Pain in Breast Cancer But access, cost, and tolerability may favor the latter option, said researcher Sep 14, 2022
Potential Practice-Changer for Refractory Metastatic Colon Cancer Significant survival gain with fruquintinib in patients with heavily pretreated disease Sep 14, 2022
Non-Chemo Regimen Led to High Response Rates in Cisplatin-Ineligible Bladder Cancer "Encouraging activity" with enfortumab vedotin-pembrolizumab in patients with high unmet need Sep 14, 2022
Long-Term ADT With Radiation Helps Prevent Post-Prostatectomy Metastases However, no benefit seen with short-term hormone therapy versus radiotherapy alone Sep 13, 2022
Neoadjuvant Anti-PD-1 Strategy Prevails Over Adjuvant in Resectable Melanoma Large increase in event-free survival with neoadjuvant plus adjuvant versus only adjuvant therapy Sep 13, 2022
KRAS Inhibitor Tops Docetaxel for Previously Treated NSCLC "New second-line standard" in KRAS G12C-mutant disease, says study investigator Sep 13, 2022
Triplet in First-Line Kidney Cancer Thwarts Disease Progression Randomized study shows "clinically meaningful" PFS improvement over dual immunotherapy alone Sep 13, 2022
Survival Bump in Unfit NSCLC With First-Line Immunotherapy Atezolizumab doubles OS at 2 years versus chemotherapy in those ineligible for platinum doublets Sep 12, 2022
Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab Active in Resectable Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Pathologic complete responses seen in 63% of patients in phase II data Sep 12, 2022
Three Adjuvant Immunotherapy Trials Flop in Renal Cell Carcinoma Studies appear to contradict benefit previously shown with pembrolizumab in this setting Sep 12, 2022
Combination Therapy Shows Promise for NSCLC That Progresses on Osimertinib About half of patients responded to tepotinib plus osimertinib, but efficacy ceiling persists Sep 12, 2022
'Striking' Colon Cancer Data Spur Mid-Presentation Ovation at ESMO Preoperative immunotherapy combo in dMMR disease yields major pathologic response in 95% Sep 12, 2022
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes Reemerge as Potential Melanoma Option More than 50% increase in 6-month PFS versus ipilimumab after progression on first-line anti-PD-1 Sep 12, 2022
Add-On Pembrolizumab Misses in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Post hoc data point to possible benefit in patients with higher PD-L1 levels Sep 11, 2022
Locking Down a Link Between Pollution and EGFR-Mutated Lung NSCLC Study also shed lights on what may lead to lung cancer in never smokers Sep 11, 2022
'Potential New Standard' for Progressing Desmoid Tumors Risk of disease progression or death reduced by 71% with oral gamma secretase inhibitor Sep 10, 2022
Targeted Combo Flops as First-Line Treatment in Advanced Breast Cancer No clinical benefit boost with anti-CD73 oleclumab added to durvalumab and chemo Sep 10, 2022
Maintenance PARP Inhibition Boosts OS in Two Ovarian Cancer Trials Results from SOLO-1 and PAOLA-1 show "clinically meaningful" long-term results with olaparib Sep 09, 2022
Worse OS With Rucaparib First in Trial of Recurrent, BRCA+ Ovarian Cancer A closer look at why PARP inhibitor's third-line indication was withdrawn Sep 09, 2022
Antibody-Drug Conjugate Prolongs Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer Positive outcome with sacituzumab govitecan leads to questions about ADC sequencing Sep 09, 2022
Checkpoint Inhibitors Whiff in Head and Neck Cancer Trials Avelumab, nivolumab-ipilimumab, pembrolizumab miss endpoints in separate studies Sep 23, 2021
Survey Says: Support Is Lacking for Cancer's Lingering Effects Survivors report dissatisfaction with long-term support Sep 22, 2021
Angiogenesis Inhibitor Slows Extrapancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Almost 7-month increase in median PFS with addition of axitinib to endocrine therapy Sep 21, 2021
Transarterial Radioembolization Slows Progression of CRC With Liver Mets Small increase in median PFS when combined with second-line chemotherapy Sep 21, 2021
Androgen-Targeting Combos Show Promise in Prostate Cancer Trials extend survival in hormone-sensitive disease Sep 21, 2021
Bifunctional Protein Shows Promise in HPV-Related Cancers Objective responses in 28% of pretreated patients, durable in most cases Sep 20, 2021