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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hung-Ming Wang, Pei-Jen Lou, Muh-Hwa Yang, Tein-Hua Chen, Ming-Yu Lien, Jin-Ching Lin, Jo-Pai Chen, Wei-Chen Lu, Hsueh-Ju Lu, Tai-Lin Huang, Chia-Jui Yen, Shang-Yin Wu, Hui-Ching Wang, Meng-Che Hsieh
BACKGROUND: Little is known regarding the association of cetuximab treatment beyond progression (TBP) with survival among patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC). Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are now considered as first-line treatment, not all patients are suitable for ICIs. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a multicenter, retrospective study to evaluate the role of cetuximab TBP in patients with R/M HNSCC after failure of first-line cetuximab-containing chemotherapy...
January 29, 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Patrick Crotty, Karim Kari, Griffin K Hughes, Chase Ladd, Ryan McIntire, Brooke Gardner, Andriana M Peña, Sydney Ferrell, Jordan Tuia, Jacob Cohn, Alyson Haslam, Vinay Prasad, Matt Vassar
IMPORTANCE: Chemotherapy agents are typically initially tested in their most promising indications; however, following initial US FDA approval, new clinical trials are often initiated in less promising indications where patients experience a worse burden-benefit ratio. The current literature on the burden-benefit profile of lenvatinib in non-FDA-approved indications is lacking. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate published clinical trials of lenvatinib in order to determine the burden-benefit profile for patients over time...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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REVIEW
Connie Kang
Sacituzumab govitecan (TRODELVY® ) is a first-in-class trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (Trop-2)-directed antibody and topoisomerase I inhibitor conjugate that is approved globally as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic, hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-; defined as immunohistochemistry 0, 1+ or 2+ and in situ hybridization-negative) breast cancer who have received endocrine-based therapy and ≥ 2 additional systemic therapies in the advanced setting...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander Olkus, Aurelie Tomczak, Anne Katrin Berger, Conrad Rauber, Philip Puchas, Cyrill Wehling, Thomas Longerich, Arianeb Mehrabi, De-Hua Chang, Jakob Liermann, Sophia Schäfer, Jan Pfeiffenberger, Dirk Jäger, Patrick Michl, Christoph Springfeld, Michael T Dill
BACKGROUND: The combination of gemcitabine and cisplatin (gem/cis) with the anti-PD-L1-antibody durvalumab was recently approved as first line therapy for biliary tract cancer (BTC) based on the results of the TOPAZ-1 trial. OBJECTIVE: We aim to analyse the feasibility and efficacy of the triple combination therapy in patients with BTC in a real-world setting and in correspondence with the genetic alterations of the cancer. METHODS: In this single-centre retrospective analysis, all patients with BTC and treated with durvalumab plus gem/cis from April 2022 to September 2023 were included...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Urszula Żebrowska, Walentyna Balwierz, Jarosław Wechowski, Aleksandra Wieczorek
BACKGROUND: Multimodal treatment of newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma (HRNB) includes induction chemotherapy, consolidation with myeloablative therapy (MAT) and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT), followed by anti-disialoganglioside 2 (GD2) immunotherapy, as recommended by the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and the Society of Paediatric Oncology European Neuroblastoma (SIOPEN). Some centres proposed an alternative approach with induction chemotherapy followed by anti-GD2 immunotherapy, without MAT+ASCT...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Margherita Rimini, Eleonora Loi, Mario Domenico Rizzato, Tiziana Pressiani, Caterina Vivaldi, Eleonora Gusmaroli, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Erika Martinelli, Ingrid Garajova, Guido Giordano, Jessica Lucchetti, Marta Schirripa, Noemi Cornara, Federico Rossari, Francesco Vitiello, Elisabeth Amadeo, Mara Persano, Vittoria Matilde Piva, Rita Balsano, Francesca Salani, Chiara Pircher, Stefano Cascinu, Monica Niger, Lorenzo Fornaro, Lorenza Rimassa, Sara Lonardi, Mario Scartozzi, Patrizia Zavattari, Andrea Casadei-Gardini
BACKGROUND: The results reported in the TOPAZ-1 phase III trial led to the approval of the combination of cisplatin and gemcitabine with durvalumab as the new first-line standard of care for patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma. OBJECTIVE: We performed a clustering analysis to classify patients into different groups based on their mutation profile, correlating the results of the analysis with clinical outcomes. METHODS: We selected 51 patients with cholangiocarcinoma who were treated with the combination of chemotherapy and durvalumab and who were screened using the next-generation sequencing-based FoundationOne gene panel...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bi-Cheng Wang, Bo-Hua Kuang, Guo-He Lin
BACKGROUND: Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, whether adding immunotherapy to antiangiogenic therapy benefits patients with unresectable HCC (uHCC) more in the first-line setting remains controversial. OBJECTIVE: In this analysis, we compared the clinical outcomes of lenvatinib monotherapy with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab combination therapy in advanced uHCC in real-world clinical practice. METHODS: The MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL databases were systematically searched on 23 April 2023...
March 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qichen Dai, Kexin Feng, Gang Liu, Han Cheng, Xiangyu Tong, Xiang Wang, Lin Feng, Yipeng Wang
BACKGROUND: The prognostic impact of HER2-low on overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with resectable breast cancer (BC) remains controversial, partly resulting from the hormone receptor (HR) status. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prognostic impact of HER2-low in different HR subgroups. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively retrieved medical records of treatment-naive primary HER2-low and HER2-zero BC patients who were diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma and underwent surgery in the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from January 2009 to September 2017 (n = 7371)...
January 24, 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Silvia Camera, Margherita Rimini, Federico Rossari, Toshifumi Tada, Goki Suda, Shigeo Shimose, Masatoshi Kudo, Changhoon Yoo, Jaekyung Cheon, Fabian Finkelmeier, Ho Yeong Lim, José Presa, Gianluca Masi, Francesca Bergamo, Francesca Salani, Mariarosaria Marseglia, Elisabeth Amadeo, Francesco Vitiello, Takashi Kumada, Naoya Sakamoto, Hideki Iwamoto, Tomoko Aoki, Hong Jae Chon, Vera Himmelsbach, Massimo Iavarone, Giuseppe Cabibbo, Margarida Montes, Francesco Giuseppe Foschi, Caterina Vivaldi, Sara Lonardi, Takuya Sho, Takashi Niizeki, Naoshi Nishida, Christoph Steup, Masashi Hirooka, Kazuya Kariyama, Joji Tani, Masanori Atsukawa, Koichi Takaguchi, Ei Itobayashi, Shinya Fukunishi, Kunihiko Tsuji, Toru Ishikawa, Kazuto Tajiri, Hironori Ochi, Satoshi Yasuda, Hidenori Toyoda, Chikara Ogawa, Takashi Nishimura, Takeshi Hatanaka, Satoru Kakizaki, Noritomo Shimada, Kazuhito Kawata, Atsushi Hiraoka, Fujimasa Tada, Hideko Ohama, Kazuhiro Nouso, Asahiro Morishita, Akemi Tsutsui, Takuya Nagano, Norio Itokawa, Tomomi Okubo, Michitaka Imai, Hisashi Kosaka, Atsushi Naganuma, Yohei Koizumi, Shinichiro Nakamura, Masaki Kaibori, Hiroko Iijima, Yoichi Hiasa, Mara Persano, Silvia Foti, Fabio Piscaglia, Mario Scartozzi, Stefano Cascinu, Andrea Casadei-Gardini
BACKGROUND: Data concerning the use of lenvatinib in very old patients (≥ 80 years) are limited, although the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in this patient population is constantly increasing. OBJECTIVE: This analysis aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lenvatinib in a large cohort of very old patients (≥ 80 years) with unresectable HCC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study was conducted on a cohort of 1325 patients from 46 centers in four Western and Eastern countries (Italy, Germany, Japan, and the Republic of Korea) who were undergoing first-line treatment with lenvatinib between July 2010 and February 2022...
January 22, 2024: Targeted Oncology
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REVIEW
Nicole L France, Hannah A Blair
Tremelimumab (tremelimumab-actl; Imjudo® ) is a monoclonal antibody and immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) that blocks cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4). A single, priming dose of intravenous tremelimumab is used in combination with durvalumab, an ICI that blocks programmed cell-death ligand 1, in a regimen known as STRIDE (Single Tremelimumab Regular Interval Durvalumab). STRIDE is approved for the treatment of adults with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the USA and Japan and for the first-line treatment of adults with advanced or unresectable HCC in Europe...
January 18, 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yu Sunakawa, Yasutoshi Kuboki, Jun Watanabe, Tetsuji Terazawa, Hisato Kawakami, Mitsuru Yokota, Masato Nakamura, Masahito Kotaka, Naotoshi Sugimoto, Hitoshi Ojima, Eiji Oki, Takeshi Kajiwara, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Tsuji, Tadamichi Denda, Takao Tamura, Soichiro Ishihara, Hiroya Taniguchi, Takako Eguchi Nakajima, Satoshi Morita, Kuniaki Shirao, Naruhito Takenaka, Daisuke Ozawa, Takayuki Yoshino
BACKGROUND: The TRUSTY study evaluated the efficacy of second-line trifluridine/tipiracil (FTD/TPI) plus bevacizumab in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). OBJECTIVE: This exploratory biomarker analysis of TRUSTY investigated the relationship between baseline plasma concentrations of angiogenesis-related factors and cell-free DNA (cfDNA), and the efficacy of FTD/TPI plus bevacizumab in patients with mCRC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The disease control rate (DCR) and progression-free survival (PFS) were compared between baseline plasma samples of patients with high and low plasma concentrations (based on the median value) of angiogenesis-related factors...
January 9, 2024: Targeted Oncology
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REVIEW
James E Frampton
Pemigatinib (Pemazyre® ), a selective, potent, reversible, oral inhibitor of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 1-3, has received conditional (in the EU) or accelerated (in the USA) approval for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally-advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) with an FGFR2 gene fusion or rearrangement. Over the course of a single-arm, phase 2 study (FIGHT-202), just over a third of patients with pretreated, advanced CCA [almost exclusively intrahepatic CCA (iCCA)] harbouring an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement who received pemigatinib once daily (2 weeks on, 1 week off) had an objective response; nearly half had stable disease...
January 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eloïne Bestion, Madani Rachid, Annemilaï Tijeras-Raballand, Gael Roth, Thomas Decaens, Christelle Ansaldi, Soraya Mezouar, Eric Raymond, Philippe Halfon
BACKGROUND: Palmitoyl-protein thioesterase-1 (PPT1) is a clinical stage druggable target for inhibiting autophagy in cancer. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the cellular and molecular activity of targeting PPT1 using ezurpimtrostat, in combination with an anti-PD-1 antibody. METHODS: In this study we used a transgenic immunocompetent mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma. RESULTS: Herein, we revealed that inhibition of PPT1 using ezurpimtrostat decreased the liver tumor burden in a mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma by inducing the penetration of lymphocytes into tumors when combined with anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1)...
January 2024: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yeokyeong Shin, Bo Hyun Moon, Baek-Yeol Ryoo, Heung-Moon Chang, Kyu-Pyo Kim, Yong Sang Hong, Tae Won Kim, Jin-Sook Ryu, Yong-Il Kim, Changhoon Yoo
BACKGROUND: Lutetium (Lu)-177 peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is one of the standard treatments for somatostatin receptor-positive well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). However, limited Asian representation in the pivotal NETTER-1 trial and a lack of real-world data for Lu-177 PRRT from Asian regions exist. OBJECTIVE: This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Lu-177 PRRT in Korean patients with advanced NETs. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study analyzed 64 patients treated with Lu-177 DOTATATE PRRT at the Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, between November 2019 and December 2022...
January 2024: Targeted Oncology
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REVIEW
Serafina Martella, Marco Maria Aiello, Valentina Bertaglia, Riccardo Cau, Nerina Denaro, Andrea Cadoni, Silvia Novello, Mario Scartozzi, Giuseppe Novello, Hector Josè Soto Parra, Luca Saba, Cinzia Solinas, Michele Porcu
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and challenging cancer associated with asbestos fiber exposure, which offers limited treatment options. Historically, platinum-based chemotherapy has been the primary approach, but recent developments have introduced immunotherapy as a promising alternative for the treatment of this disease. Nevertheless, the unique growth patterns and occasionally ambiguous progressive characteristics of MPM make the interpretation of radiological assessments complex. Immunotherapy further complicates matters by introducing unconventional treatment response patterns such as hyperprogression and pseudoprogression...
January 2024: Targeted Oncology
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Brigida Anna Maiorano, Ugo De Giorgi, Elena Verzoni, Evaristo Maiello, Giuseppe Procopio, Vincenza Conteduca, Massimo Di Maio
BACKGROUND: PARP inhibitors (PARPis) are effective treatment options for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) as single agents or in combination with androgen receptor-targeted agents (ARTA). However, a clinically relevant adverse effect of these agents is hematological toxicity, a typical class adverse event (AE), which can lead to treatment modifications and discontinuations. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to analyze the risk of hematological AEs, including anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia secondary to PARPi treatments in mCRPC...
January 2024: Targeted Oncology
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Xiuning Le, Eric Nadler, Daniel B Costa, John Victor Heymach
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 9, 2023: Targeted Oncology
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Brigida Anna Maiorano, Ugo De Giorgi, Elena Verzoni, Evaristo Maiello, Giuseppe Procopio, Vincenza Conteduca, Massimo Di Maio
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 9, 2023: Targeted Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ming-Yu Lien, Tzer-Zen Hwang, Chih-Chun Wang, Ching-Yun Hsieh, Chuan-Chien Yang, Chien-Chung Wang, Ching-Feng Lien, Yu-Chen Shih, Shyh-An Yeh, Meng-Che Hsieh
BACKGROUND: Little is known regarding the prognostication of the Pan-Immune-Inflammation Value (PIV) in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC). OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the prognostic role of PIV in patients with R/M HNSCC receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients who were diagnosed to have R/M HNSCC and treated with ICI were reviewed retrospectively...
December 2, 2023: Targeted Oncology
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Simon Fung, Yahiya Y Syed
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 29, 2023: Targeted Oncology
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