Gina Mauro

Dr. Michael Wagner covers the basics of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a rare vascular cancer, spanning symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options and more.

Kisqali plus aromatase inhibitor improved outcomes across age and menopausal status in early hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Among patients with heavily pretreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia, treatment with Epkinly monotherapy showed deep responses.

Autologous stem cell transplant plus Rituxan did not improve survival outcomes in certain patients with mantle cell lymphoma compared with Rituxan alone.

PD-L1 expression was found to predict better outcomes with Opdivo and Yervoy in patients with ccRCC, while high KIM-1 levels were linked to worse outcomes.

Findings from the CheckMate 067 of patients with advanced melanoma include the longest follow-up of a checkpoint inhibitor in any tumor type.

Study findings were mixed regarding the postsurgical combination of Keytruda and chemotherapy with or without radiation among patients with high-risk endometrial cancer.

An analysis of more than 500 patients with advanced kidney cancer treated with Welireg broke down the rates of moderate to severe side effects.

Some patients with stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer saw benefits from Opdivo plus chemotherapy followed by surgery then Opdivo, researchers found.

Zanidatamab continued to lead to responses and improved overall survival in pretreated HER2-positive biliary tract cancer.

Eight-year follow-up showed that Tafinlar plus Mekinist continued to improve outcomes for patients with stage 3 melanoma.

A novel cell therapy demonstrated early efficacy and an acceptable safety profile in patients with graft-versus-host disease undergoing haploidentical stem cell transplantation.

The stem cell thrapy, Orca-T led to promising relapse-free and overall survival rates in patients with intermediate- to high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Presurgical Keytruda Plus Chemo, Postsurgical Keytruda Continued to Show Benefits in in patients with high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

Treatment with Retevmo, compared with Cabometyx or Caprelsa, improved progression-free survival and overall response rate in patients with advanced RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer who were multikinase inhibitor-naïve.

Mezigdomide plus Velcade and dexamethasone or Kyprolis and dexamethasone showed promising response rates across multiple doses in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, research showed.

Long-term follow-up data showed that Lenvima plus Keytruda continued to show benefit in patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

Findings from a phase 3 trial demonstrated that half of patients with FLT3-ITD-mutant acute myeloid leukemia and detectable minimal residual risk derived a relapse-free survival benefit with Xospata.

Jakafi led to improved symptom score and spleen volume reductions in patients with myelofibrosis, regardless of anemia or transfusion status, recent research showed.

Three-fourths of patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia experienced complete responses — which tended to be durable — when treated with the CAR-T cell therapy, Obe-cel.

Results of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group CX.5/SHAPE trial could lead to surgical de-escalation among patients with cervical cancer.

Extended-duration Nubeqa reduced the risk of death in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, study results showed.

The addition of a personalized cancer vaccine to Keytruda led to a 44% reduction in the risk of death or recurrence in certain patients with melanoma.

Zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 lengthened the time to progression for patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma.

The use of Enhertu was associated with a reduction in the risk of death compared with standard chemotherapy in certain patients with gastroesophageal and gastric cancer.

Treatment with the CAR-T cell therapy ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel) led to a 97.9% response rate at two years in patients with relapsed/refractory myeloma in a recent clinical trial.

The use of elacestrant, an investigational therapy, elicited a 30% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with standard of care in a group of patients with estrogen receptor (ER)–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Treatment with the study drug was associated with a doubling of a survival outcome in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor, compared to placebo.

More than six years of follow-up data show that Opdivo alone, or in combination with Yervoy, continued to induce long-term survival benefits compared to Yervoy alone in patients with previously untreated advanced skin cancer.

The study’s lead author noted that the data support giving patients with advanced bladder cancer chemotherapy to get control of the disease and then maintaining that control with maintenance Bavencio.