AbbVie announced the final analysis of the confirmatory phase III MIRASOL trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of Elahere in women with folate receptor alpha-positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer compared to chemotherapy.
A five-year study on subjects who had only the cancerous portion of their prostate glands destroyed shows that the procedure averted cancer recurrence in most patients while preserving urinary and sexual function.
FDA approved Tevimbra (tislelizumab-jsgr), in combination with platinum-containing chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (≥1).
Bristol Myers Squibb announced the final analysis of overall survival from the phase III CheckMate-816 study, which evaluated Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with platinum-doublet chemotherapy as a neoadjuvant treatment for adult patients with resectable (tumors ≥ 4 cm or node positive) non-small cell lung cancer.
A study from New York University researchers found that cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment—a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer. The study was published in Nature.