Promising results from an earlier-phase study of FOLFOX plus pegilodecakin in metastatic PDAC refractory to gemcitabine provided a rationale for this study.
Pegvorhyaluronidase alfa is an enzyme that breaks down hyaluronan, thought to be a contributor to the structure of the tumor microenvironment in some pancreatic cancers.
Researchers hypothesized that because prior studies have demonstrated that common drugs can affect the microbiome, these medications could also impact IO efficacy in HCC.
Previous genomic profiling studies have identified potentially targetable alterations in IDH1 and FGFR2 in primary tumor specimens of some patients with IHCC.
Even though older adults were prescribed second-line therapies less frequently than younger adults, patients had similar overall survival outcomes across age subgroups.
This single-arm, phase 2 study of pembrolizumab in advanced solid tumor cancers did not limit patient enrollment based on tumor PD-L1 expression level.