Oncology

With the introduction of expensive drugs and associated challenges for hospital budgets, pharmacy leaders benefit from strategically managing financial, clinical, and regulatory factors for sustainable care delivery.

Pharmacists’ role in community-based cancer centers are expanding, with a more significant role in treatment plan selection, education, collaboration to create individualized care plans, managing adverse effects, and aiding with financial toxicities.

Overall survival results from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 study provide evidence of improved long-term outcomes from this pembrolizumab-based regimen.

Clinical research presented at ESMO 2024 highlights the significant survival benefits of perioperative and neoadjuvant immunotherapy with nivolumab and nivolumab plus ipilimumab, while emphasizing the role of biomarkers such as ctDNA and KRAS mutations in guiding treatment decisions.

An ESMO 2024 presentation explores the growing role of the gut microbiome in immunotherapy response, emerging diagnostic tools such as PCR chips, and innovative therapies such as fecal microbiota transplantation and microbiome-preserving strategies to improve patient outcomes.

The gut and intratumoral microbiota influence cancer development, progression, and treatment responses, highlighting the potential for treatment strategies that leverage these microbial interactions to enhance cancer therapies.

Disparities continue in younger patients, raising the need for novel interventions to mitigate challenges associated with younger age at diagnosis.

Christian Rolfo discusses 6 different treatment options that are being developed across immunotherapies and antibody drug conjugates for non–small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer.

Subcutaneous administration of atezolizumab and hyaluronidase-tqjs had similar efficacy to intravenous administration.

An overview of the potential treatment strategies for patients were presented at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Glenn Balasky discusses AI’s potential to change oncology care and optimize patient outcomes.

Parents of children with cancer had the highest risk of developing mental illness and cardiovascular diseases.

Promising abstracts surrounding DLL3 targeting for patients with lung and neuroendocrine cancer were presented at WCLC 2024.

As of May 2024, follow-up and exploratory analyses of MARIPOSA show improvements in outcomes for patients with EGRF-mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

In a session at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer, presenters highlight the most significant developments in local therapy for metastatic non–small cell lung cancer and advanced disease.

An overview of the latest developments in targeting DLL3 in lung neuroendocrine tumors were presented at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Highlights from multiple trials investigating novel treatments for mNSCLC were presented at 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Gwen Nichols, MD, discusses challenges associated with the limited access to CAR T therapy and the need to expand outpatient and community care for patients.

Mark Fendrick, MD, speaks about the importance of improving financial toxicity for patients while optimizing their outcomes.

Nick Ferreyros discusses the state and federal regulations impacting payment reform.

Presentations highlighted the potential of tarlatamab in treating solid tumor cancers.

Breanne Peyton-Thomas, PharmD, BCOP, discusses her work as a pharmacist at Ochsner Health on the CAR T-cell therapy team.

Lalan Wilfong, MD, discusses the road to value-based care and payment reform in cancer care.

Datopotamab deruxtecan was effective in patients with TROP2-QCS biomarker-positive tumors for non–small cell lung cancer

Presenter Krish Patel, MD, discusses the use of epcoritamab (Epkinly; AbbVie) and glofitamab (Columvi; Genentech) in aggressive B-cell lymphomas as monotherapies and in combination regimens.

Lazertinib with amivantamab was found to be similar in efficacy to osimertinib in the MARIPOSA study.

Experts debate over the most effective treatment pathway for Richter transformation, highlighting the risks and benefits of different cellular therapies.

The study authors suggest that annual screening for women aged 40 and older may be beneficial, but warn of the increased risk of false positive results.

Alessandra Ferrajoli, MD, discusses the importance of renal function for BCL2 inhibitors to avoid tumor lysis syndrome and cardiovascular history for BTK inhibitors to mitigate arrhythmia risks.

The evolving treatment landscape for multiple myeloma includes debates on the timing and effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy and quadruple immunotherapy regimens.