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CMMI Extends OCM and Provides Important Flexibilities

(COA) June 4, 2020 - From CMMI… The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) is providing new flexibilities an...

FIRE-SCLC Analysis: Largest Ever Study Of First-line Ra...

(UCCC/Colorado Cancer Blogs) June 4, 2020 - The international First-line Radiosurgery for Small-Cell Lung Cancer (FIRE-SCLC) analysis led by U...

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Saad Usmani, MD, on impressions of the CARTITUDE study in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma patients

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and BJ Rimel, MD, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discuss recent clinical studies in ovarian cancer and how recent developments are impacting the way ovarian cancer patients are treated.

At the AACR Virtual Meeting I, there was pivotal data from a trio of immunotherapy triplet trials in breast cancer (I-SPY 2), melanoma (IMSpire150), and prostate cancer (IMbassador250) — not all of which were successes. In addition, we report on a significant proof of principle study with a new TIL in PD-1 naive NSCLC patients, and look at Compugen’s ...

The emergence of COVID-19 has transformed the clinical care of cancer patients and upended the way oncology practices do business. During COA 2020, virtual presenters discussed the pandemic's impact on community oncology, including the role of telehealth in bridging the crisis, the financial fallout of COVID-19, and the lessons oncologists hope are take-a...

A recent FDA workshop delved into liquid biopsy screening approaches as they are increasingly being applied, particularly in the early detection of cancer. In addition, three high-profile cancer screening studies, Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas (aka CCGA), DETECT-A, and TRACERx, stole the show at AACR's first Virtual Meeting.

At COA's first virtual Community Oncology Conference, presenters across the country discussed modernizing the clinical trial process, navigating the complexity of cancer care with applied informatics, and improving value-based reimbursement. Virtual sessions on oncology payment reform covered updates on the OCM 1.0, an OCM 2.0 in the works, and the laun...

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Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) – Tian Zhang, MD, and Robert Figlin, MD, discuss recent clinical advances in RCC fro...

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Prostate Cancer – Daniel Petrylak, MD, and Robert Figlin, MD, discuss recent clinical advances in prostate canc...

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Colorectal Cancer – Zev Wainberg MD, and Robert Figlin, MD, discuss recent clinical advances in colorectal canc...

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Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) – Michael Wang MD, and Robert Figlin, MD, discuss recent clinical advances in mantle...

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At COA's first virtual Community Oncology Conference, presenters across the country discussed modernizing the clinical trial process, navigating the complexity of cancer care with applied...

May 2020 Edition

The emergence of COVID-19 has transformed the clinical care of cancer patients and upended the way oncology practices do business. During COA 2020, virtual presenters discussed the pandem...

May 2020 Edition

A recent FDA workshop delved into liquid biopsy screening approaches as they are increasingly being applied, particularly in the early detection of cancer. In addition, three high-profile...

May 2020 Edition

At the AACR Virtual Meeting I, there was pivotal data from a trio of immunotherapy triplet trials in breast cancer (I-SPY 2), melanoma (IMSpire150), and prostate cancer (IMbassador250) �...

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ASCO 2020 Highlights for Sunday

May 31, 2020

Sunday’s live broadcast of the virtual scientific program of the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting featured late-breaking data fr...

ASCO 2020 Highlights for Saturday

May 30, 2020

The live broadcast of the virtual scientific program of the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting kicked off this morning with highligh...

Sneak Peek at ASCO 2020 Plenary Sessions

May 29, 2020

Ahead of this weekend’s live broadcast of the virtual scientific program of the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, late-breaking ...

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June 11 - 14, 2020

25th EHA Congress (European Hematology Association) [VIRTUAL FORMAT]

Frankfurt, Germany

June 22 - 24, 2020

AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II

[Virtual Format]

June 27, 2020

Memorial Sloan Kettering 2nd Annual Palliative Care Symposium for Advanced Practice Providers [CANCELLED; POSTPOSED TIL 2021]

New York, NY

June 27 - 28, 2020

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Top 5 Market Moving Events

Date	Company and Product
Jun 16	Merck, Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) Merck said on Apr. 7, 2020 that the FDA had accepted its sBLA seeking accelerated approval for Keytruda as monotherapy in patients whose tumors are tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-H) ≥10 mutations/megabase, and who have progressed following prior treatment. The FDA set a PDUFA date of June 16, 2020. The application was partially based on results from the phase 2 KEYNOTE-158 trial, which also supported the 2017 FDA approval for Keytruda as the first cancer treatment based on a biomarker, regardless of cancer type, in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) solid tumors. MSI-H is on the highest end of the TMB spectrum. Data from KEYNOTE-158 on the TMB-H patient population were presented at the ESMO 2019 Congress. Tissue TMB status was determined using the Foundation Medicine, Inc. FoundationOne® CDx assay.
Jun 18	Epizyme, Tazverik™ (tazemetostat) The company said on Feb. 14, 2020 that the FDA had accepted for filing and granted a priority review to its NDA for the accelerated approval of tazemetostat, an oral EZH2 inhibitor, for patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) who have received at least two prior lines of systemic therapy. The FDA designated the application as a supplemental NDA (sNDA) with a PDUFA target action date of June 18, 2020. The filing is based on safety and efficacy data from a phase 2 study of tazemetostat as a monotherapy in patients with FL, both with or without EZH2 activating mutations, who received at least two prior lines of systemic therapy. The primary endpoint of the study was objective response rate (ORR). In updated data reported at 2019 ASCO from two cohorts of the phase 2 study, tazemetostat treatment resulted in an objective response rate (ORR) of 69% for patients with an EZH2 mutation and 35% for patients with wild-type EZH2. Tazverik received accelerated approval from the FDA on Jan. 23, 2020 for epithelioid sarcoma. It was the first FDA approval for the Epizyme therapy, and also the first treatment option ever approved by U.S. regulators for that rare soft tissue sarcoma.
Jun 23	Karyopharm Therapeutics , Xpovio® (selinexor) tablets Karyopharm announced on Feb. 19, 2020 that the FDA had accepted for filing its sNDA seeking accelerated approval for oral Xpovio, a first-in-class, Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (RR DLBCL), not otherwise specified, who have received at least two prior therapies. The FDA granted a Priority Review to the application with a PDUFA, or target action date, of June 23, 2020 assigned. Xpovio has received both Orphan Drug and Fast Track designations from U.S. regulators for the DLBCL indication. The company said it also expects to submit a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to European regulators in 2020 requesting conditional approval for Xpovio in DLBCL. Xpovio received accelerated approval from the FDA in July 2019 in combination with dexamethasone as a treatment for patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma (MM). Karyopharm has also submitted an MAA to European regulators with a request for conditional approval of selinexor in the MM indication.
Jun 30	Samsung Bioepis Co., SB8 Samsung Bioepis Co. announced on Nov. 11, 2019 that the FDA had accepted for review the BLA for SB8, a biosimilar candidate referencing Roche's Avastin (bevacizumab). If approved, SB8 will be commercialized in the U.S. by Merck & Co. An approval decision is anticipated in Q2 2020.
Jun 30	GlaxoSmithKline plc, belantamab mafodotin (GSK2857916) The company said on Jan. 21, 2020 that the FDA had granted a priority review to its BLA seeking approval for belantamab mafodotin for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/r MM) whose prior therapy included an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor and an anti-CD38 antibody. The marketing application is based on data from the pivotal phase 2 DREAMM-2 trial enrolling heavily pre-treated patients with actively progressing MM that had worsened despite current standard of care. Results from that trial, published in The Lancet in Dec. 2019, showed that among 97 patients receiving the drug at 2.5mg/kg and 99 receiving it at 3.4mg/kg, respectively 31% and 34% achieved a response to therapy. The most commonly reported adverse events were eye problems and low blood counts, and two deaths that were possibly drug-related also occurred. The drug, an antibody-drug conjugate that delivers a cytotoxic pharmaceutical agent to myeloma cells expressing the antigen BCMA, was designated a Breakthrough Therapy by the FDA in 2017. If approved, it would be the first anti-BCMA treatment approved for patients. At the JP Morgan Healthcare conference in January, the company said it anticipated that the FDA would rule on the drug in the first half of this year.