Innovative strategies lead to mixed benefits for rare cancers
Positive findings are presented for advanced Merkel-cell carcinoma plus phaeochromocytoma and paragangliomas, while negative findings are equally important to guide future research
Novel strategies to overcome resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors show promise in early studies
Blocking GDF-15, an mRNA-based therapy and targeting VISTA have a strong mechanistic rationale, resulting in clinical benefit in heavily pre-treated patients
First-in-human trial of a TCR-T therapy targeting KRAS G12V reports a significant response rate
Preliminary results of NW-301V are promising, with a lack of severe adverse effects at all doses tested in patients with pancreatic cancer or colorectal cancer
Survival improvements observed with first-line antibody–drug conjugates in triple-negative breast cancer
TROP2-targeted ADCs, sacituzumab govitecan and datopotamab deruxtecan, meet their primary endpoints in phase III trials
A novel off-the-shelf cancer vaccine shows some potential in PD-L1-negative patients with advanced melanoma
Although the phase III investigational study with IO102-IO103 plus pembrolizumab is negative, it offers precious insights to advance research in the field
Zanzalintinib plus atezolizumab shows activity in metastatic colorectal cancer with microsatellite stable disease
Primary phase III overall survival analysis suggests that the combination therapy may be a potential new option for previously treated patients with or without liver metastases
Sustained benefits of neoadjuvant immunotherapy demonstrated in resectable melanoma
Longer follow-up from two studies supports neoadjuvant over adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibition in patients with resectable melanoma and clinically or radiologically detectable metastasis, plus useful insights gained from biomarker analyses will help refine treatment strategies
Promising novel strategies to boost anticancer immunity in NECs
Despite the presentation of encouraging study findings with novel immunotherapy-based therapies, long-term outcomes are needed to better understand the magnitude of clinical benefit and many questions remain around off-target toxicity and the identification of patients most likely to respond to treatment
Novel immunotherapy combinations address unmet needs in liver cancers
Potentially practice-changing data were presented for atezolizumab plus bevacizumab, and camrelizumab plus rivoceranib in hepatocellular carcinoma
Research in pancreatic adenocarcinoma targets antibody-drug conjugates and oncolytic viruses
While telisotuzumab adizutecan demonstrated early antitumour activity, only modest benefits were seen with VCN-01 added to standard care