New treatment paradigms may offer advances in pancreatic cancer treatments
Neoadjuvant, perioperative, targeted and combined treatment approaches have shown potential benefit for patients with this aggressive disease, but further research is needed
Advanced pancreatic cancer: is triple chemotherapy into question?
Results presented at ESMO Congress 2023 open-up an interesting debate on the use of currently recommended treatment regimens
New data support perioperative nivolumab for patients with resectable NSCLC
CheckMate 77T demonstrates significantly improved event-free survival with neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant nivolumab compared with chemotherapy and adjuvant placebo
Adding amivantamab to chemotherapy prolongs PFS in untreated EGFR exon 20 insertion-mutated advanced NSCLC
The bispecific EGFR/MET-directed monoclonal antibody looks set to become the standard of care in this setting, but toxicity has to be managed carefully
Are we over-treating patients with locally advanced rectal cancer?
Recently presented results suggest that a subset of patients with early stage rectal cancer could skip pre-operative radiotherapy, thus raising some questions about the standard of care
Cemiplimab survival improvements in NSCLC are durable
Extended analyses from two regulatory phase III trials show that the benefits of anti-PD-1-based therapy persist long term, even in patients with brain metastases
Long-term event-free survival benefits of neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy for resectable NSCLC
Additional exploratory analyses of the phase III CheckMate 816 trial reveal that event-free survival at 3 years is not influenced by surgical parameters and suggest that tumour inflammation may be a useful predictive biomarker
New therapies, new toxicities
Side-effects may occur at unpredictable timepoints during a patient’s treatment journey and even after treatment cessation
New FGFR inhibitors show potential for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma
Two early studies investigate the anticancer activity of derazantinib and RLY-4008 in patients with FGFR inhibitor-naïve cholangiocarcinoma
Has TIL therapy the potential to change cancer treatment?
After TILs have shown benefits in advanced melanoma, many ‘synthetic biology’ strategies can be conceived to potentially extend this clinical signal to other patient groups