Sabrina Serani

The FDA granted orphan drug designation for elraglusib, a novel drug for treating advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

The Alliance AO91902 trial investigated whether adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy would improve outcomes for patients with advanced angiosarcoma.

Several experts that we spoke with for ASCO 2024 share their thoughts on why the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting is so important to the field of oncology.

The Alliance A091902 trial is currently investigating paclitaxel with and without nivolumab in patients who are taxane naive and nivolumab plus cabozantinib in taxane-pretreated patients.

The TROPiCS-02 trial studied sacituzumab govitecan vs physician’s choice of chemotherapy for HR+/HER2– breast cancer.

The phase 3 ASCERTAIN study found that orally administered decitabine and cedazuridine had similar pharmacologic effects compared with intravenously administered decitabine.

Trastuzumab administered subcutaneously delivered unique immunomodulation effects vs intravenous trastuzumab in patients with treatment-naïve HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer

A real-world analysis found that patients with acute coronary syndrome who were also diagnosed with a hematologic malignancy had worse survival outcomes, and patients with multiple myeloma were overrepresented in the population.

While response and safety may vary across racial and ethnic subgroups, progression-free survival and overall survival does not appear to differ when chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is used in the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.