Sep 19th, 2020 - Abstract submission categories Basic science Biliary tract cancer, incl. cholangiocarcinoma Biomarkers (agnostic) Breast cancer, early stage Breast cancer, locally advanced Breast cancer, metastatic CNS tumours Colorectal cancer Developmental therapeutics Endocrine tumours Genitourinary tumours, prostate Genitourinary tumours, non-prostate Gynaecological cancers Haematological mal...

Sep 19th, 2020 - The ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 Programme is now online! The ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 will be the global stage for the exchange and debate of translational cancer science of excellence, first announcements of practice-changing data, and multidisciplinary must-have conversations set to spur transformative therapies against cancer.

Jul 7th, 2020 - This essential study (Abstract 2003) highlights that health policy impacts cancer survival. It showed that age-adjusted mortality from cancer is worse in states that have not expanded access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. There were 758 fewer cancer deaths in expansion states in 2017, and Hispanic populations had the greatest decrease in mortality under Medicaid expansion. This stud...

Jul 6th, 2020 - The JAVELIN Bladder 100 study (LBA1) investigated the efficacy of maintenance avelumab following platinum-based chemotherapy compared to best supportive care for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer. In the trial, avelumab improved median overall survival by 21.4 months compared to 14.3 months with best supportive care. These data are practice changing, and the degree of benefit to this a...

Jun 25th, 2020 - Although the ASCO Annual Meeting felt much different this year given the virtual format, the quality of research presented at the meeting was undiminished, particularly in the field of lung cancer. ASCO Daily News Expert Panel member Jared Weiss, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, reviewed the most influential lung cancer research presented during the ASCO20 Virtual Sci...

Jun 24th, 2020 - The report on ADAURA during the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program Plenary Session surprised many, first because the initial data readout for the phase III trial was not planned until 2022 and second because of the strength of the disclosed data (Abstract LBA5). Early unblinding of the results revealed an 83% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death with use of adjuvant osimertinib c...

Jun 24th, 2020 - Awaited results of the ENDURANCE trial showed equivalency between a regimen of carfilzomib plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone (KRd) and bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) as an initial therapy for patients with standard- or intermediate-risk multiple myeloma (Abstract LBA3). KRd failed to improve progression-free survival compared with VRd, according to data presented by Shaji K...

Jun 5th, 2020 - Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah presented the first outcomes evaluation of an adult oncology hospital-at-home program during the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program (Abstract 7000). The study evaluated patients participating in HCI's Huntsman at Home program. The data demonstrated strong evidence for the benefits of this care model, showing improved patien...

Jun 1st, 2020 - Data from clinical efficacy and biomarker analyses conducted for the single-arm phase II PrE0505 study of the initial treatment of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma were presented by Patrick Forde, MB, BCh, and colleagues during the Lung Cancer Oral Abstract Session at the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program (Abstract 9003). The trial evaluated the addition of durvalumab, an immune che...

Jun 1st, 2020 - The combination of carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (KRd) did not show superior efficacy in patients with newly diagnosed myeloma absent a high-risk disease prognosis, compared with the standard of care: bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd). Data from a planned interim analysis for efficacy and toxicity in the randomized phase III ENDURANCE trial were presented in the P...

Jun 1st, 2020 - Michael J. Morris, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses phase III data from the CONDOR trial, which showed that PSMA-targeted PET scans detected and localized occult disease in most men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer presenting with negative or equivocal conventional imaging findings (Abstract 5501).

Jun 1st, 2020 - Rana R. McKay, MD, of the University of California, San Diego, discusses the results of a phase II trial of intense neoadjuvant hormone therapy followed by radical prostatectomy in men with high-risk prostate cancer. The data show that 21% of patients had a favorable pathologic response (Abstract 5503).

Jun 1st, 2020 - An allogeneic chimeric antigen T-cell therapy plus an anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody appeared safe for certain patients with large B-cell or follicular lymphoma, according to study data presented during the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program.

May 31st, 2020 - The phase 3 IMvigor010 trial comparing adjuvant atezolizumab (Tecentriq) with observation in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma (MIUC) failed to meet its primary endpoint of disease-free survival (DFS), according to primary analysis data presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

May 31st, 2020 - Mansoor Raza Mirza, MD, chief oncologist in the Department of Oncology at Rigshopitalet–Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark and medical director of the Nordic Society of Gynaecological Oncology, discusses the final survival data from the randomized phase 2 NSGO-AVANOVA2/ENGOT-OV24 study, which evaluated the combination or niraparib (Zejula) plus bevacizumab (Avastin) versus niraparib alon...

May 31st, 2020 - Almost 100% of patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) responded to treatment with the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel, Yescarta), data from an ongoing study showed.

May 31st, 2020 - Patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who were treated with the multikinase inhibitor cabozantinib (Cabometyx) following both immunotherapy (IO) and non-IO regimens demonstrated promising responses, suggesting the agent’s efficacy regardless of prior therapy, according to data from a pooled analysis of patients treated on the phase 3 METEOR (NCT01865747) and the phase 2 Japanese C20...

May 31st, 2020 - The use of cabazitaxel (Jevtana) over abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) or enzalutamide (Xtandi) may continue as a standard of care in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who were previously treated with docetaxel and either of those 2 androgen receptor (AR)-targeted agents, based on results of a poster presented during the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology Virt...

May 31st, 2020 - We are recapping some of the top news that have been presented during the conference—and soon we’ll speak with Drs Brian Rini and Christopher Sweeney on some significant data being presented in genitourinary cancers, as well as Dr Roy Herbst on some practice-changing lung cancer studies.

May 31st, 2020 - Durable clinical activity was demonstrated with tepotinib, an oral, highly selective MET inhibitor, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and a MET exon 14 (METex14) skipping mutation identified through liquid or tissue biopsy. This data was from the phase 2 VISION trial (NCT02864992) presented during the at the 2020 Virtual Scientific Meeting and pu...