Maria-Victoria Mateos, Jesus San-Miguel, Michele Cavo, Kenshi Suzuki, Andrzej Jakubowiak, Stefan Knop, Chantal Doyen, Paulo Lucio, Zsolt Nagy, Ludek Pour, Sebastian Grosicki, Andre Crepaldi, Anna Marina Liberati, Philip Campbell, Sung-Soo Yoon, Genadi Iosava, Tomoaki Fujisaki, Mamta Garg, Mai Ngo, Eva G Katz, Meletios A Dimopoulos
{"title":"Bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone with or without daratumumab in transplant-ineligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (ALCYONE): final analysis of an open-label, randomised, multicentre, phase 3 trial","authors":"Maria-Victoria Mateos, Jesus San-Miguel, Michele Cavo, Kenshi Suzuki, Andrzej Jakubowiak, Stefan Knop, Chantal Doyen, Paulo Lucio, Zsolt Nagy, Ludek Pour, Sebastian Grosicki, Andre Crepaldi, Anna Marina Liberati, Philip Campbell, Sung-Soo Yoon, Genadi Iosava, Tomoaki Fujisaki, Mamta Garg, Mai Ngo, Eva G Katz, Meletios A Dimopoulos","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00018-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00018-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>In the phase 3 ALCYONE study, the addition of daratumumab to bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone (D-VMP) significantly improved outcomes in transplant-ineligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Here, we present results from the final analysis of ALCYONE.<h3>Methods</h3>ALCYONE was an international, multicentre, randomised, open-label, active-controlled, phase 3 trial in adults aged 18 years or older with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who were ineligible for high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell transplantation, because of their age (≥65 years) or presence of substantial comorbidities, and had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0–2. Patients were enrolled between Feb 9, 2015, and July 14, 2016, and were randomly assigned (1:1) by randomly permuted blocks using an interactive web-based randomisation system to receive bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone (VMP) alone or D-VMP, with randomisation stratified by International Staging System disease stage, geographical region, and age. Patients received up to nine 6-week cycles of subcutaneous bortezomib (1·3 mg/m<sup>2</sup> of body surface area, twice per week on weeks 1, 2, 4, and 5 of cycle 1 and once weekly on weeks 1, 2, 4, and 5 of cycles 2–9), oral melphalan (9 mg/m<sup>2</sup>, once daily on days 1–4 of each cycle), and oral prednisone (60 mg/m<sup>2</sup>, once daily on days 1–4 of each cycle). Patients in the D-VMP group also received intravenous daratumumab at a dose of 16 mg/kg once weekly during cycle 1, once every 3 weeks in cycles 2–9, and once every 4 weeks thereafter until disease progression, unacceptably toxicity, or the end of study. The primary endpoint, progression-free survival, has been previously reported. The ALCYONE study has completed; presented here are final analyses for selected secondary endpoints related to overall survival, depth of response, subsequent therapy, and safety. The intention-to-treat population was the primary analysis population (including for overall survival), defined as all patients who were randomly assigned to study treatment. The safety population, consisting of patients who received any dose of study treatment, was used in safety analyses. This trial is registered with <span><span>ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg aria-label=\"Opens in new window\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"20\" viewbox=\"0 0 8 8\"><path d=\"M1.12949 2.1072V1H7V6.85795H5.89111V2.90281L0.784057 8L0 7.21635L5.11902 2.1072H1.12949Z\"></path></svg></span>, <span><span>NCT02195479</span><svg aria-label=\"Opens in new window\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"20\" viewbox=\"0 0 8 8\"><path d=\"M1.12949 2.1072V1H7V6.85795H5.89111V2.90281L0.784057 8L0 7.21635L5.11902 2.1072H1.12949Z\"></path></svg></span>.<h3>Findings</h3>In total, 706 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive D-VMP (n=350) or VMP (n=356). Baseline characteristics were balanced between the two treatment groups; most participants were female (379 [54%] of 706 ","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"US funding cuts impact cancer care and research","authors":"Sharmila Devi","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00208-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00208-6","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143775965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennelle C Hodge, George J Netto, Bharat Rekhi, Wendy A Cooper, Michael Eden, Andrew S Field, Vicky Goh, James G Kench, Joseph D Khoury, Katia R M Leite, Zhiyong Liang, Daichi Maeda, Miguel Reyes-Múgica, Brian Rous, Aleš Ryška, Shahin Sayed, Antonia Sepulveda, Chanjuan Shi, Gary Tse, Peter Schirmacher, Dilani Lokuhetty
{"title":"WHO Classification of Tumours: evolution of a global resource in the molecular era","authors":"Jennelle C Hodge, George J Netto, Bharat Rekhi, Wendy A Cooper, Michael Eden, Andrew S Field, Vicky Goh, James G Kench, Joseph D Khoury, Katia R M Leite, Zhiyong Liang, Daichi Maeda, Miguel Reyes-Múgica, Brian Rous, Aleš Ryška, Shahin Sayed, Antonia Sepulveda, Chanjuan Shi, Gary Tse, Peter Schirmacher, Dilani Lokuhetty","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(24)00709-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(24)00709-5","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nobuaki Matsubara, Arun A Azad, Neeraj Agarwal, Fred Saad, Ugo De Giorgi, Jae Young Joung, Peter C C Fong, Robert J Jones, Stefanie Zschäbitz, Jan Oldenburg, Neal D Shore, Curtis Dunshee, Joan Carles, Andre P Fay, Paul Cislo, Jane Chang, Cynthia G Healy, Alexander Niyazov, Karim Fizazi
{"title":"First-line talazoparib plus enzalutamide versus placebo plus enzalutamide for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: patient-reported outcomes from the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 TALAPRO-2 trial","authors":"Nobuaki Matsubara, Arun A Azad, Neeraj Agarwal, Fred Saad, Ugo De Giorgi, Jae Young Joung, Peter C C Fong, Robert J Jones, Stefanie Zschäbitz, Jan Oldenburg, Neal D Shore, Curtis Dunshee, Joan Carles, Andre P Fay, Paul Cislo, Jane Chang, Cynthia G Healy, Alexander Niyazov, Karim Fizazi","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00030-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00030-0","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>Patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer have poor prognoses, underscoring the need for novel therapeutic strategies. First-line talazoparib plus enzalutamide significantly improved radiographic progression-free survival compared with placebo plus enzalutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the phase 3 TALAPRO-2 study. We aimed to evaluate patient-reported outcomes in the all-comers cohort of TALAPRO-2, which included patients with and without alterations in homologous recombination repair (HRR) genes.<h3>Methods</h3>TALAPRO-2 is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial conducted at 223 hospitals, cancer centres, and medical centres in 26 countries worldwide. Eligible participants were male patients aged 18 years or older (≥20 years in Japan) who were receiving ongoing androgen deprivation therapy, had asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1, and had not received previous life-prolonging systemic therapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) using a centralised interactive web response system and a permuted block size of 4 to oral talazoparib 0·5 mg once daily or placebo, plus oral enzalutamide 160 mg once daily. The funder, patients, and investigators were masked to allocation of talazoparib or placebo; enzalutamide was open-label. Stratification factors were HRR gene alteration status (deficient vs non-deficient or unknown) and previous treatment with docetaxel or abiraterone, or both (yes vs no) in the castration-sensitive setting. The primary endpoint was radiographic progression-free survival by blinded independent central review and has been reported previously. Patient-reported outcomes were assessed as secondary endpoints in the patient-reported outcomes population, which comprised patients from the intention-to-treat population with a baseline patient-reported outcome assessment followed by at least one post-baseline patient-reported outcome assessment. Patient-reported outcomes included mean change from baseline in patient-reported pain symptoms (per Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form [BPI-SF]); global health status/quality of life (GHS/QoL), overall cancer and prostate cancer-specific functioning and symptoms (per European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer [EORTC] Core Quality of Life Questionnaire [QLQ-C30] and Quality of Life Questionnaire-Prostate [QLQ-PR25]); and general health status (per EQ-5D-5L). Time to deterioration in patient-reported pain symptoms (per BPI-SF), and time to definitive deterioration in patient-reported GHS/QoL (per EORTC QLQ-C30) and prostate cancer-specific urinary symptoms (per EORTC-QLQ-PR25) were the other secondary endpoints. This study is registered with <span><span>ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg aria-l","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PARP inhibitors for prostate cancer: for whom and when?","authors":"Matthew R Cooperberg","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00125-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00125-1","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"47 33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines: addressing inequities in childhood cancer care","authors":"James R Downing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00146-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00146-9","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emmanuelle Vigarios, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Philippe Pomar, Delphine Maret
{"title":"Integrating dental and oral care in oncology: a crucial step towards comprehensive cancer treatment","authors":"Emmanuelle Vigarios, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Philippe Pomar, Delphine Maret","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00098-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00098-1","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pamela Espinoza, Henry E Rice, Paul H Wise, Nickhill Bhakta, Alexandra Mueller, Taisiya Yakimkova, Lisa M Force, Emily R Smith, Asya Agulnik
{"title":"The impact of armed conflict on global patterns of childhood cancer","authors":"Pamela Espinoza, Henry E Rice, Paul H Wise, Nickhill Bhakta, Alexandra Mueller, Taisiya Yakimkova, Lisa M Force, Emily R Smith, Asya Agulnik","doi":"10.1016/s1470-2045(24)00559-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(24)00559-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h2>Section snippets</h2><section><section><section><h2>Incidence of cancer and related mortality in children in conflict zones</h2>Children living in countries with armed conflict account for an increasing proportion of global paediatric cancer deaths over the past 30 years. This pattern has resulted from both a growing number of children living in countries with conflict over time and higher cancer mortality rates in countries in conflict compared with countries not in conflict. During the past three decades, approximately half of the children (aged 0–19 years) around the world lived in countries experiencing armed</section></section></section><section><section><section><h2>Great divergence in global childhood cancer mortality</h2>Many countries have successfully reduced mortality rates over recent decades, leading to aspirational projections of a great convergence in mortality rates for children.<sup>10</sup> However, we found that for children with cancer in conflict settings, there is a great divergence, with higher cancer mortality rates and an increasing proportion of global cancer deaths for children in countries with armed conflict compared with countries without conflict.<sup>11</sup> Without urgent action, this trend suggests that as</section></section></section><section><section><h2>Limitations</h2>There are several limitations to this study. First, our analysis risks stability bias: most sampling data in conflict settings come from the more stable and accessible regions, and the least data from where there is poor access to information, which can lead to falsely lowered measured levels of the impact of conflict on health services.<sup>15</sup> Second, missing data might have biased our findings. In our study, 17·6% of the countries had missing conflict data in 1990, although this represented only</section></section><section><section><h2>Conclusion</h2>Countries experiencing armed conflict account for a large and increasing proportion of all global cancer cases and deaths among children. Continued efforts to reduce paediatric cancer mortality worldwide must confront the complex challenges inherent in providing health services in areas of armed conflict. Reaching the 60% survival goal for all children with cancer globally as set forth by the GICC cannot be achieved without improving childhood cancer care in areas of armed conflict. To meet</section></section><section><section><h2>Declaration of interests</h2>We declare no competing interests.</section></section>","PeriodicalId":22865,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Oncology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143745526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}