Short durvalumab infusions appear to be safe for the first-line treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer
Early results from a phase III trial support 30-minutes infusions of immunotherapy with some advantages for patients
Two oral immune checkpoint inhibitors show preliminary efficacy and manageable safety in early trials
Promising results support the further development of new small-molecule PD-L1 inhibitors with favourable benefit–risk profiles and improved ease of use compared with antibodies
Adjuvant immunotherapy continues to confirm its efficacy in melanoma
Updated data from two studies report significant improvements in recurrence-free survival and distant-metastasis free survival with pembrolizumab or nivolumab
Immunotherapy
The expanding toolbox for immuno-oncology
Novel treatment approaches show encouraging early results in solid tumours, but ways to boost precision immunotherapy are needed
A c-Met directed antibody-drug conjugate shows preliminary activity in a NSCLC cohort
Efficacy and safety of telisotuzumab adizutecan was investigated in patients with EGFR wild type non-squamous disease
Frontline abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy showed superior efficacy compared to chemotherapy in aggressive HR+/HER2– breast cancer
The combination therapy with the CDK 4/6 inhibitor improved overall response rate compared to standard treatment
Promising antitumour activity presented for emerging targets in different solid tumours
Strategies to target MTAP deletion, KRAS G12D and ESR1 mutations, and CDK4 and CDK2 further expand the landscape of precision oncology
Drug Rediscovery Protocol-like Clinical Trials facilitate access to precision oncology
Data from studies presented highlight the importance of integrating and incorporating comprehensive genomic profiling into clinical practice across a broad range of tumour types
Some clinical activity was reported for novel tyrosine kinase inhibitors in previously treated patients with GIST
However, the future of TKI combinations for these rare tumours is uncertain
Alectinib shows benefit across genetic profiles in resected ALK-positive NSCLC
New data from the ALINA study confirm lack of influence of EML4-ALK variant on outcome in this patient population