Specialty Pharmacy

Beth Koselke, PharmD, BCOP, discusses the impact of pharmacist intervention in clinical trial enrollment, specifically in the MYLUNG Consortium.

All individuals who received second-line chemotherapy regimens met the PFS2 endpoint and all but 1 individual had died at time of data cutoff, according to a presentation at 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Rucaparib at the 400 mg dosage combined with nivolumab and ipilimumab for 4 cycles will continue onto a phase 2 trial for individuals with relapsed ovarian cancer.

Biomarker positive patients were randomized to maintenance rucaparib 600 mg or matched placebo within 10 weeks of completing PBC until disease progression.

Analysis included a 29% objective response rate in cohort 4 of the C-144-01 study, the company says.

Findings of the phase 2 cohort and the phase 1b cohort of the KRYSTAL-1 study are being presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

Efanesoctocog alfa is a novel and investigational recombinant factor VIII therapy that is designed to extend protection from bleeding with a once-weekly prophylactic dosing.

The researchers noted that the objective of the study was to assess the trends of 1L PARPi maintenance treatment uptake and PFS of patients with newly diagnosed AOC.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan shows superior and clinically meaningful progression-free survival and overall survival benefit in patients with HER2-low unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer with hormone receptor-positive or negative disease.

With a median follow-up of 90 months, individuals receiving palbociclib in combination with letrozole had numerically longer OS compared to placebo, but it was not deemed statistically significant.

Overall outcomes were consistent with axicabtagene ciloleucel in the real-world setting, regardless of race or ethnicity, in adults with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) plus doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine shows improved overall survival compared with standard chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated, advanced stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

An immune checkpoint inhibitor plus ramucirumab found to improve overall survival versus standard of care in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Ibrutinib plus bendamustine-rituximab and rituximab maintenance was found to lower the risk of disease progression or death by 25% compared with placebo in patients 65 years of age or older with newly diagnosed mantle cell lymphoma.

Uliledlimab plus toripalimab (Tuoyi) shows significant response rates in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer previously ineligible to receive standard-of-care treatment.

Analysis shows that different genetic mutation profiles in tumors harboring PIK3CA mutation did not affect the treatment benefit with alpelisib (Piqray) combined with fulvestrant in individuals with HR+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Improvement in recurrence-free survival was seen primarily in individuals with very high-risk renal cell carcinoma, whereas individuals with intermediate high-risk disease showed no improvements in survival.

The median overall survival was 66 months for individuals with hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer administered at least 1 dose reduction of ribociclib (Kisqali) from the starting dose of 600 mg.

Natalizumab (Tysarbi) is an integrin receptor antagonist indicated for treatment of: multiple sclerosis and Crohn disease.

The FDA approved decitabine/cedazuridine in 2020 for treatment of adults with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Ogi Kavazovic, co-founder and CEO of House Rx, discusses the company's technology platform and pharmacy service and how it can better enable community oncology pharmacy practices to offer medically integrated dispensing.

Company releases data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2022 showing that the drug is well-tolerated in patients with solid tumors.

There are a huge number of medical facilities in Ukraine that run international clinical trials, with the FDA noting that more than 250 drugs and devices were undergoing clinical research in Ukraine.

The new study analyzed KSHV’s latent-lytic switch, a process in which the virus exits its dormancy state to replicate in the host cell.

Pegfilgrastim-pbbk is the third oncology biosimilar developed by Amneal to gain FDA approval this year.

Ritonavir (Norvir) is indicated in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection.

Health systems must have a flexible workflow in place to allow the use of non-preferred agents to accommodate payer demands and reduce financial toxicity.

Nivolumab (Opdivo) with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy and nivolumab plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) approved as first-line treatments for unresectable advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.