Caroline Seymour

Editor, OncLive®
Caroline Seymour is your initial point of contact for the OncLive® podcast, OncLive On Air™. She joined the company in 2018 as an assistant editor, with expertise in video production and print/digital publication. Email: cseymour@onclive.com

Articles

Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Improves DFS in Localized Urothelial Cancer

October 5th 2023

Pembrolizumab as adjuvant therapy led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival compared with observation in patients with localized muscle invasive urothelial cancer and locally advanced urothelial cancer.

European Commission Approves Enrylaze for ALL and Lymphoblastic Lymphoma

September 22nd 2023

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Enrylaze for use as a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma in adult and pediatric patients 1 month and older who developed hypersensitivity or silent inactivation to E. coli–derived asparaginase.

FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to NXC-201 for AL Amyloidosis

September 21st 2023

The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to the next generation BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy NXC-201 for the treatment of patients with amyloid light chain amyloidosis.

European Commission Approves Elacestrant for Pretreated, ESR1+, ER+/HER2– Breast Cancer

September 20th 2023

The European Commission has approved elacestrant for the treatment of postmenopausal women and men with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced, or metastatic breast cancer with an activating ESR1 mutation who have disease progression following at least 1 line of endocrine therapy including a CDK4/6 inhibitor.

CHMP Releases Positive Opinion for Quizartinib in Newly Diagnosed FLT3-ITD+ AML

September 15th 2023

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of quizartinib in the European Union for use in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation chemotherapy, followed by maintenance quizartinib, for adult patients with newly diagnosed, FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

DNA/RNA Sequencing Aids Subsequent Treatment Selection in HCC/H-CCK Post Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab

September 15th 2023

Tissue- and blood-based molecular analysis could help match patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma or hepatocholangiocarcinoma following disease progression on frontline atezolizumab and bevacizumab to targeted therapy or another TKI based on identified genomic alterations.

NICE Recommends Ruxolitinib for Hydroxycaramide/Hydroxyurea Resistant or Intolerant Polycythemia Vera

September 14th 2023

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published its Final Draft Guidance recommending the use of ruxolitinib as treatment for eligible patients in England and Wales with polycythemia vera that is resistant or intolerant to hydroxycarbamide/hydroxyurea.

Preoperative APL-1202 Plus Tislelizumab Meets pCR Criteria, Moves to Next Stage of Trial in MIBC

September 13th 2023

The Safety Monitoring Committee determined that prespecified criteria for pathologic complete response were met with the use of the PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab alone or in combination with APL-1202 as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer.

FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to AFM13 Plus AlloNK for Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma

September 12th 2023

The FDA has granted fast track designation to the first-in-class innate cell engager AFM13 plus AlloNK for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma.

Zongertinib Proves Clinically Active With Low Rate of EGFR-Mediated AEs in HER2-Mutant Solid Tumors

September 11th 2023

Zongertinib will proceed to phase 1b evaluation at doses of 120 mg and 240 mg once daily in patients with HER2–mutant non–small cell lung cancer following preliminary efficacy signals and acceptable safety in patients with advanced HER2–mutant solid tumors enrolled in the dose-escalation portion of the phase 1a/b BEAMION Lung-1 trial.

Dose Optimization Continues After Preliminary Efficacy, Safety Signals With BI 764532 in DLL3+ SCLC

September 10th 2023

Treatment with at least 90 μg/kg of the novel DLLC-targeting T-cell–engager BI 764532 was well tolerated and led to tumor shrinkage in patients with small cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine carcinoma.

Fixed-Duration Data Foreshadow Earlier Use of Loncastuximab Tesirine in Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL

September 8th 2023

Loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl plus rituximab demonstrated promising antitumor activity and consistent safety signals in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Intensity of Consolidation Pre-Transplant Shows No Difference in Outcomes in Older AML

September 7th 2023

No difference in relapse-free survival or non–relapse mortality was seen with intensive vs non-intensive consolidation chemotherapy regimens prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in elderly patients over the age of 60 with acute myeloid leukemia in first complete remission.

Amivantamab/Chemotherapy ± Lazertinib Improves PFS in Pretreated EGFR+ NSCLC

September 6th 2023

Amivantamab-vmjw plus carboplatin and pemetrexed, administered with or without lazertinib, significantly improved progression-free survival vs chemotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 19 deletions or L858R substitutions after progression on or after osimertinib.

Perioperative Trials Add to Growing Immunotherapy Landscape in Early-Stage NSCLC

August 31st 2023

Emerging data continue to shape perioperative therapy decisions for patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.

FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designations to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2+ Solid Tumors, Including mCRC

August 31st 2023

The FDA has granted 2 breakthrough therapy designations to trastuzumab deruxtecan for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors that have progressed after prior treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options, and for those with HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer who have received at least 2 prior lines of therapy.

NDA Submission Planned for EA-114 in Metastatic Breast Cancer Following Positive Type C Meeting With FDA

August 30th 2023

The FDA and Eagle Pharmaceuticals have agreed on the next steps for the development of EA-114, an estrogen receptor antagonist and novel formulation of fulvestrant used in the treatment of postmenopausal women with breast cancer.

Pembrolizumab Plus Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy Receives European Approval in HER2+ Gastric/GEJ Cancer

August 29th 2023

The European Commission has approved pembrolizumab for use in combination with trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic, HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 with a combined positive score of at least 1.

TTFields Plus Paclitaxel Misses OS End Point in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer

August 28th 2023

The addition of tumor treating fields to paclitaxel did not result in a statistically significant improvement in overall survival vs paclitaxel alone in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, failing to meet the primary end point of the phase 3 ENGOT-ov50/GOG-3029/INNOVATE-3 trial.

LEAP-010 Trial Discontinued After OS Projection With Pembrolizumab/Lenvatinib in Metastatic HNSCC

August 25th 2023

The combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and objective response rate but failed to improve overall survival compared with pembrolizumab plus placebo as frontline therapy for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.