Dr Kasper discusses the FDA approval of nirogacestat for patients with progressing desmoid tumors; key efficacy, safety, and quality-of-life outcomes from the pivotal DeFi trial; and findings from an analysis investigating tumor volume and T2 hyperintensity changes with nirogacestat in patients enrolled in DeFi.
The TKI bezuclastinib plus standard-of-care sunitinib may become the new second-line standard treatment for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor that has progressed on imatinib.
Combination therapy targeting multiple exons where mutations commonly develop in gastrointestinal stromal tumor may represent a promising treatment approach to increase efficacy when patients develop resistance to therapies such as imatinib.
Drs Jones and Somaiah discuss unmet needs in GIST that the Peak trial seeks to answer; the advantages of the methods and design of this trial; and how the tolerable safety profile of bezuclastinib plus sunitinib supports further research with this combination.