European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022

The first-in-class KRAS^G12C inhibitor sotorasib significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with previously treated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with KRAS^G12C mutations, according to results of the phase III CodeBreaK 200 trial presented at ESMO 2022.

An extended 4.5-year follow-up of the phase III KEYNOTE-240 trial showed that pembrolizumab continued to provide clinically meaningful improvements in the dual primary endpoints of overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS), with a manageable safety profile, vs placebo in patients with sorafenib-treated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

The combination of nivolumab, ipilimumab, and cabozantinib improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with previously untreated, advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) of intermediate or poor risk as per IMDC* criteria, results of the phase III COSMIC-313 trial showed.

In the 3-year follow-up of the EMPOWER-Lung 1 study, first-line cemiplimab continued to outdo chemotherapy (CT) in providing survival benefit for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Moreover, in the second-line setting (patients with progressive disease [PD]), cemiplimab added to CT provided meaningful and durable objective response rate (ORR) and overall survival (OS) benefit.

In the phase III LEAP*-002 study, a combination regimen comprising lenvatinib and pembrolizumab appeared to have similar efficacy and safety as lenvatinib monotherapy as first-line therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

In the second interim overall survival (OS) analysis of the phase III TROPiCS-02 study, sacituzumab govitecan (SG) – a first-in-class Trop-2*-directed antibody-drug conjugate approved for triple-negative metastatic breast cancer (mBC) with ≥2 prior therapies (≥1 in the metastatic setting) – conferred an OS benefit for pretreated HR+/HER2– mBC, compared with treatment of physician’s choice (TPC**).