Poziotinib Shows Encouraging Activity Among Heavily Pretreated NSCLC Subgroup

OncLive | Sep 24, 2018

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“Poziotinib (NOV120101, HM781-36B) demonstrated high antitumor activity in patients with metastatic, heavily pretreated EGFR and HER2 exon 20 mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to phase II study results presented at the 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Toronto, Canada.

“To date, the agent specifically induced a best response rate of 55%, including a 43% confirmed objective response rate (ORR) among evaluable patients with EGFR exon 20 mutant NSCLC in the study, said John V. Heymach, MD, PhD, who presented data of the investigator-initiated study of poziotinib in EGFR and HER 2-exon 20 mutant NSCLC (NCT03066206).”

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First-Line Atezolizumab Plus Chemotherapy Improves PFS for Lung Cancer

Healio | Sep 25, 2018

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“The addition of frontline atezolizumab to carboplatin or cisplatin plus pemetrexed improved PFS among patients with non-small cell lung cancer, according to interim results from a global phase 3 randomized trial presented at International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s World Conference on Lung Cancer.

“IMpower132 is an open-label study of atezolizumab (Tecentriq, Genentech) — a PD-L1 inhibitor — among 578 chemotherapy-naive patients with stage IV nonsquamous NSCLC. Exclusion criteria included EGFR or ALK mutations, untreated central nervous system metastases, autoimmune disease and prior exposure to immunotherapy.”

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Pembrolizumab Alone or With Chemotherapy for PD-L1–Positive NSCLC?

Cancer Network | Sep 24, 2018

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“Researchers found that in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and a Tumor Proportion Score (TPS) ≥ 50, pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy failed to improve overall survival (OS) or progression-free survival (PFS) compared with pembrolizumab alone.

“Results from the study were presented in a poster presentation at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer, held September 23–26 in Toronto.”

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Brigatinib Superior to Standard of Care Crizotinib in ALK+ NSCLC

Targeted Oncology | Sep 26, 2018

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“Adult patients with ALK-positive, locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who had not received a prior ALK inhibitor experienced a more than 50% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death with treatment with brigatinib (Alunbrig), compared with the first-line standard of care, crizotinib.

“Brigatinib demonstrated superior progression-free survival (PFS) compared with crizotinib, corresponding to a 51% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death (HR, 0.49; 95% CI, 0.33-74; P = .0007), according to first interim analysis results presented at the 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

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Hyperprogression in NSCLC Patients With PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors

Cancer Network | Sep 21, 2018

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“Hyperprogressive disease (HPD) occurred more commonly among patients with pretreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving PD-1 (programmed cell death protein 1)/PD-L1 (ligand 1) inhibitors than in patients treated with chemotherapy, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Oncology.

“Among those patients with hyperprogressive disease – defined as disease progression at first evaluation with a variation per month exceeding 50% – treated with immunotherapy there was a higher metastatic burden and poorer prognosis, compared with patients without hyperprogressive disease.”

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Tool Predicts Risk for Late Breast Cancer Recurrence

Healio | Sep 19, 2018

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“An online prognostic tool accurately determined the risk for late distant recurrence among women with ER-positive breast cancer, according to a single-arm, prospective study.

“The Clinical Treatment Score post-5 years (CTS5) tool could be used to determine whether patients should continue endocrine therapy 5 years after initial treatment.”

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MONALEESA-3 Data Highlight Ribociclib as Standard in HR+ Breast Cancer

OncLive | Sep 18, 2018

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“Findings from the MONALEESA-3 trial dispelled the theory that a CDK4/6 inhibitor had to be reserved following recurrence on hormone therapy in postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, explained Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD.

“In the phase III trial, postmenopausal patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced disease who received up to 1 prior line of therapy were randomized 2:1 to ribociclib (Kisqali) plus fulvestrant (Faslodex) or placebo.”

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Novel Agents are Changing the Face of Metastatic TNBC

Targeted Oncology | Sep 19, 2018

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“Only 1 treatment option is currently available for treating patients with metastatic germline BRCA-mutated triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but research into novel therapies, including PI3K/conjugates (ADCs) could soon result in a host of new therapies for this hard-to-treat disease.

” ‘Right now, for TNBC, chemotherapy is our only option,’ said Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, MD, co-chair of Breast Cancer Research and the chair of Breast Cancer Prevention Research at Baylor-Sammons Cancer Center and for The US Oncology Network. ‘That’s about to change very soon with the likely availability of atezolizumab [Tecentriq].’ ”

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Apalutamide Maintains Health-Related QoL in Nonmetastatic CRPC

OncLive | Sep 17, 2018

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“Treatment with apalutamide (Erleada) was not associated with a significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with high-risk nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to patient-reported outcome (PRO) data from the phase III SPARTAN trial.

“In the study overall, patients treated with the addition of apalutamide to standard hormone therapy also had an improvement in metastasis-free survival (MFS) and longer time to symptomatic progression compared with those who were treated with placebo.”

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