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Treatment with darolutamide, androgen deprivation therapy, and docetaxel that elicited a PSA response was linked to improved overall survival in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. → Read More
Despite this “obesity paradox,” doctors do not recommend gaining weight with hopes of improving cancer outcomes. → Read More
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has updated its Prostate Cancer guidelines to include the PARP inhibitor rucaparib. → Read More
Adding avelumab to best supportive care improved the median overall survival by over 7 months in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, according to findings from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 study. → Read More
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will no longer be meeting to review a Biologics License Application for margetuximab for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. → Read More
Adding ipatasertib to paclitaxel continued to demonstrate a clinically meaningful extension in overall survival in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. → Read More
The benefit of single-agent acalabrutinib continued well over 3 years after treatment initiation in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. → Read More
The FDA has granted a priority review designation to nivolumab plus ipilimumab and chemotherapy for use as a frontline treatment for patients with metastatic or recurrent non–small cell lung cancer. → Read More
The oncology supportive care agent tocilizumab might effectively treat cytokine storm caused by COVID-19 in patients with blood cancers, according to a case study of a patient with multiple myeloma. → Read More
At the 24th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies®, Sonali M. Smith, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, detailed the critical clinical trial findings currently informing treatment selection in the frontline indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma paradigm. → Read More
The FDA has accepted a Biologics License Application for a fixed-dose combination of pertuzumab and trastuzumab with hyaluronidase, administered by subcutaneous injection in combination with intravenous chemotherapy, for the treatment of eligible patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. → Read More
A durvalumab-based neoadjuvant regimen induced an impressive pathologic complete response rate in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. → Read More
Olaparib continued to show a numerical overall survival (OS) benefit with a favorable hazard ratio for OS versus chemotherapy in patients with BRCA-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, according to an extended, exploratory follow-up analysis of the phase III OlympiAD trial. → Read More
The FDA is updating the prescribing information and Patient Package Insert for CDK4/6 inhibitors to include a warning that the treatments in rare cases may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. → Read More
The addition of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) showed a clinical overall survival benefit among a subgroup of patients with advanced squamous non–small cell lung cancer. → Read More
The FDA has extended the review period for a supplemental biologics license application for atezolizumab for use in combination with carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer who do not have EGFR or ALK aberrations. → Read More
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) for the treatment of patients with unresectable advanced or recurrent gastric cancer that has progressed after chemotherapy. → Read More
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved daratumumab for use in combination with bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant. → Read More
Combining pyrotinib with capecitabine reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 64% compared with lapatinib (Tykerb) plus capecitabine in Chinese patients with relapsed or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. → Read More
Adding atezolizumab to platinum-based chemotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, according to results from the phase III IMvigor130 study. → Read More