European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024

In a preplanned interim analysis of the NIAGARA trial, the addition of durvalumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to radical cystectomy (RC) and durvalumab monotherapy following surgery confers a survival advantage over chemo alone for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC).

Results from the phase III KEYNOTE-522 study presented at ESMO 2024 show a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) with neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab compared with neoadjuvant chemo alone for previously untreated, high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

In the management of severe cancer pain, intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with hydromorphone delivers superior pain control with greater patient satisfaction as compared with conventional oral morphine, according to the phase III open-label SYLT-021 study.

Darolutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), without docetaxel, improves radiological progression-free survival (rPFS) and secondary efficacy outcomes vs placebo plus ADT in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), according to results of the global phase III ARANOTE trial presented at ESMO 2024.

Adjuvant treatment with aspirin appears to provide some protection in patients with resected, PIK3CA-mutant stage II and III colon cancer, demonstrating a clinically significant improvement (43 percent) in disease-free survival (DFS), suggests a study presented at ESMO Congress 2024.