Gina Mauro

Editorial Director, OncLive
Gina Mauro is your lead editorial contact for OncLive. She joined the company in 2015 and has held various positions on OncLive; she is also the on-air correspondent for OncLive News Network: On Location. Prior to joining MJH Life Sciences, she worked at Gannett as a full-time reporter with the Asbury Park Press. Email: gmauro@onclive.com 

Articles

Quality of Life, Toxicity Weighed Most by Patients When Choosing Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment

December 20th 2023

Quality of life and adverse effects are key components most patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer weigh when choosing an anticancer therapy, according to patient-reported results of an ESR1 QUAlity of Life Survey 3 survey.

FDA Approves Eflornithine for Adult, Pediatric Patients With High-Risk Neuroblastoma

December 13th 2023

The FDA has approved eflornithine (Iwilfin) as a treatment to reduce the risk of relapse in adult and pediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma who have achieved at least a partial response to prior multi-agent, multimodality therapy including anti-GD2 immunotherapy.

Orca-Q Showcases Early Efficacy, Acceptable Safety in Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant Without PTCy

December 12th 2023

The high-precision cellular product Orca-Q demonstrated early signals of clinical activity as well as an acceptable safety profile for patients undergoing haploidentical stem cell transplantation without posttransplant cyclophosphamide.

Pelabresib/Ruxolitinib Combo Improves Splenomegaly, TSS in JAK Inhibitor–Naive Myelofibrosis

December 11th 2023

Pelabresib plus ruxolitinib demonstrated a 35% or greater reduction in spleen volume and trended toward reducing mean absolute total symptom score (TSS) as well as improving TSS reduction by 50% at 24 weeks in patients with JAK inhibitor–naive myelofibrosis.

Orca-T Shows High Survival Rates in Intermediate-/High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome

December 10th 2023

The high-precision cell therapy Orca-T demonstrated high rates of relapse-free survival, overall survival, and graft-vs-host disease RFS at 1 year, as well as a low incidence of GVHD in patients with intermediate- to high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Revumenib Combo Showcases Early Activity in Relapsed/Refractory AML

December 9th 2023

Revumenib, decitabine/cedazuridine, plus venetoclax elicited an objective response rate of 100% with acceptable safety in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia enrolled in the small phase 1/2 SAVE study.

EFS Benefit With Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab/Chemo Combo, Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Upheld in High-Risk Early TNBC

December 8th 2023

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab compared with placebo plus chemotherapy continued to show a clinically meaningful improvement in event-free survival in patients with high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.

Maintenance Pembrolizumab/Olaparib Misses Survival End Points in Locally Advanced or Metastatic TNBC

December 6th 2023

Pembrolizumab plus olaparib did not improve progression-free or overall survival vs pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with locally recurrent inoperable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who received induction pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy.

Early Use of ctDNA May Accelerate Time to Treatment and Improve Survival in NSCLC

November 11th 2023

While there are considerable barriers to incorporating comprehensive genotyping, the use of circulating tumor DNA offers an improvement in molecular testing—and doing so earlier can accelerate the time to treatment and improve survival for patients with lung cancer.

Reflecting on Advances Made in High-Risk, Low-Grade Prostate Cancer Management

November 10th 2023

Howard I. Scher, MD, sheds light on various research programs he has led or has been heavily involved with that have helped change the course of prostate cancer treatment over the years.

FDA Approves Fruquintinib for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

November 8th 2023

The FDA has approved fruquintinib (Fruzaqla) for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have been previously treated with fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-VEGF therapy, and, if RAS wild-type and medically appropriate, an anti-EGFR therapy.

FDA Approves Fruquintinib for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer-Audio Test

November 8th 2023

The FDA has approved fruquintinib (Fruzaqla) for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have been previously treated with fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-VEGF therapy, and, if RAS wild-type and medically appropriate, an anti-EGFR therapy.

BXCL701/Pembrolizumab Combo Prolongs OS in mCRPC of Adenocarcinoma Phenotype

November 8th 2023

Treatment with the oral innate immune activator BXCL701 combined with pembrolizumab demonstrated prolonged overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer of adenocarcinoma phenotype.

FDA Approves Ivosidenib for Relapsed/Refractory IDH1-Mutant MDS

October 24th 2023

The FDA has approved ivosidenib (Tibsovo) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory myelodysplastic syndromes with a susceptible IDH1 mutation, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

Selpercatinib Significantly Improves PFS, Responses in Advanced RET+ Medullary Thyroid Cancer

October 21st 2023

Selpercatinib resulted in a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall response rate compared with cabozantinib or vandetanib in patients with advanced, multikinase inhibitor–naïve, RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer, according to interim findings from the phase 3 LIBRETTO-531 trial.

At Multiple Dose Levels, Mezigdomide Elicits Responses in Combination With Bortezomib or Carfilzomib in R/R Myeloma

September 28th 2023

Mezigdomide in combination with either bortezomib and dexamethasone or carfilzomib and dexamethasone showed encouraging responses across multiple dose levels in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab Benefit Is Upheld in Advanced RCC, Including ICI-Pretreated and Naïve Subgroups

July 14th 2023

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab continued to show clinical activity in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, including in subsets of patients who had received or were naïve to checkpoint inhibitors.

FDA Approves Glofitamab-gxbm for Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL

June 16th 2023

The FDA has approved glofitamab-gxbm (Columvi) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) not otherwise specified or large B-cell lymphoma arising from follicular lymphoma, after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

Persistence Is Key to Success

June 15th 2023

Vinay Edlukudige Keshava, MD, shares the story of his fellowship and provides advice on how to best transition to the next step in an oncologic career.

UT Southwestern Fellows Embrace Creativity in Managing Patient Diversity and Cancer Care

June 13th 2023

Amy Jones, MD, details the socioeconomic challenges with patients coming into the Dallas County clinics and how oncology fellows become equipped to address them.