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Latest from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute


Potent Oral Agent Acting as Immunotherapy and Targeted Treatment Produces High Response Rate in Certain Patients

September 22, 2023

A new agent that subverts myeloma cells from within while also subjecting them to an immune system attack produced impressive responses in combination with dexamethasone in patients with multiple myeloma that had relapsed and stopped responding to all currently available therapies

Dr Luo on Optimal Initial Chemotherapy Regimens in NUT Carcinoma

September 18, 2023

Jia Luo, MD, discusses a retrospective analysis of initial chemotherapy regimens for the treatment of patients with locally advanced and metastatic NUT carcinoma, which was presented at the 2023 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Dr Richardson on the Potential Significance of Mezigdomide in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma

September 12, 2023

Paul G. Richardson, MD, discusses how the continued development of the novel agent mezigdomide could affect the treatment paradigm for patients who progressed on, and developed resistance to, other available BCMA-directed therapies.

Frontline Osimertinib/Chemotherapy Combination Improves PFS in EGFR-Mutated NSCLC

September 11, 2023

Osimertinib in combination with platinum-based therapy and pemetrexed demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival vs osimertinib monotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

TROPiCS-02 Data Reinforce Role of Sacituzumab Govitecan as a SOC in HR+ Breast Cancer

August 29, 2023

Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, highlights updated survival and safety data seen with sacituzumab govitecan in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer; underscores how Trop-2 and HER2 testing is not necessarily needed for this agent in this population at this time; and shares how ongoing efforts are exploring the utilization of this agent earlier in the treatment course.

Cabozantinib Efficacy Prompts CABINET Trial Unblinding in Advanced Pancreatic and Extra-Pancreatic NETs

August 24, 2023

Interim data from the phase 3 CABINET trial demonstrated significant improvement in progression-free survival with cabozantinib vs placebo in patients with advanced pancreatic or extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors following progression on prior systemic therapy.

Novel Bispecific ADC Generates Early Efficacy Signals in Lung and Head and Neck Cancers

August 24, 2023

Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD, discusses the advantages of bispecific ADCs that target both HER3 and EGFR; preliminary efficacy and safety data seen with BL-B01D1 in patients with non–small cell lung cancer; and the activity of this agent in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, small cell lung cancer, and nasopharynx cancer.

CGX1321 Demonstrates Safety and Promising Activity in Advanced GI Cancers

August 21, 2023

Marios Giannakis, MD, PhD, discusses how targeting the WNT signaling pathway could harness a previously underutilized pathway involved in GI tumor development, spotlights the activity and safety of CGX1321 with or without pembrolizumab in phase 1 studies, and emphasizes the need for continued investigation of CGX1321 to further validate this precision medicine approach.

Dr Ravi on the Use of Lutetium Lu 177 Vipivotide Tetraxetan in mCRPC

August 18, 2023

Praful K. Ravi, MB, BChir, MRCP, discusses the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeted therapies in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, highlighting the use of the targeted radioligand lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan.