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Raja Flores says oncology is loose with staging jargon, and now “it’s confusing my patients.”

In last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter, Raja Flores wrote a guest editorial explaining how he, with his expertise in thoracic surgery, took issue with a nuance in a recent Keytruda commercial.

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Trump’s vaccine executive order draws criticism from medical community, may put cancer populations at risk

President Trump earlier this week issued an executive order that would drastically change the childhood immunization schedule—limiting recommendations, spacing out shots, and splitting the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into single-disease injections.

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Vol.52 No.32

By Claire Marie Porter

Drugs & Targets

FDA grants accelerated approval to iberdomide with daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj and dexamethasone for multiple myeloma

FDA granted accelerated approval to iberdomide (Zenbexus) in combination with daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj and dexamethasone for adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior line of therapy including a proteasome inhibitor and an immunomodulatory agent.

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Vol.52 No.32

Drugs & Targets

FDA advisory committee to vote on GRAIL’s multi-cancer detection test, Galleri

FDA announced a forthcoming hybrid meeting of the Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee on Sept. 23 to discuss, make recommendations, and vote on information regarding the premarket approval application for the Galleri test sponsored by GRAIL, Inc.

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Vol.52 No.32

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves companion diagnostic supporting patients with advanced melanoma

FDA approved Labcorp’s PGDx elio tissue complete CDx as a companion diagnostic to help identify patients with advanced melanoma with certain BRAF variants who may benefit from treatment with FDA-approved targeted therapies.

August 14, 2026

Vol.52 No.32

Podcast

What happened at FDA? Replimune approval raises questions

Last week, FDA granted accelerated approval to Replimune Group Inc. for it’s biologic, RP1 (vusolimogene oderparepvec), following the FDA Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee’s 10:3 vote in support of the biologic in combination with nivolumab for the treatment of advanced melanoma in patients who have progressed on prior anti-PD-1 therapy.

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