Planning Ahead: Maintenance Therapy in Endometrial Cancer

This activity is part of a series

Faculty

Richard T. Penson, MD, MRCP
Physician, Mass General Brigham
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Chair, Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center
Boston, MA
Richard T. Penson, MD, MRCP

Richard T. Penson, MD, MRCP, is a Medical Oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A key opinion leader, Dr. Penson was a longstanding member of the Gynecologic Oncology Group Ovarian and Quality of Life Committees and now serves on the Foundation’s Investigator Council. He is the national Principal Investigator (PI) of the olaparib registration trial (SOLO-2) and the international PI of SOLO3, and the OVAL trial. He has taught on Harvard’s Practice of Medicine Course, the Bigelow General Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is one of the Chairs of the Institutional Review Board of Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center.

Nicoletta Colombo, MD, PhD
Director Gynecologic Oncology program
European Institute of Oncology
Milan, Italy

Statement of Need

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer (EC) who did not respond to first-line treatment with chemotherapy.  This led to several new trials of emerging therapies, including studies to determine if progression-free survival (PFS) could be improved with the addition of chemotherapy.

With the advent of ICI therapy and emerging ICI combination therapies, clinicians need to have knowledge of where and how maintenance therapy may play a role in improving PFS in EC.  During this podcast, international gynecologic cancer experts Drs. Richard Penson and Nicoletta Colombo discuss the most recent data from these EC trials, focusing on how it has changed recommended practice patterns and how it should be incorporated into the care of patients with EC.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to better:

  • Assess the role of maintenance therapy in the treatment of EC

Financial Support

Supported by a joint educational grant from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.

Target Audience

Primary Audiences: Medical oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, physician assistants (PAs), nurses, nurse practitioners (NPs), and pharmacists working in oncology settings
Secondary Audiences: Gynecologists and primary care physicians (PCPs)

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Disclosure Declaration

Dr. Penson reports the following financial relationships:

Advisory Board: Aadi Bioscience; AstraZeneca; GSK; ImmunoGen, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Mersana Therapeutics; Novacure; Roche; Sutro Biopharma, Inc.; and Vascular Biogenics

Consultant: Serves on DSMBs for AstraZeneca; EQRx; and Roche

Research Support: Intuitional research funding (as PI) for Array BioPharma Inc.; AstraZeneca; Eisai Inc.; Genentech, Inc.; and Vascular Biogenics

Other financial or material support: Royalties: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd; Elsevier; UpToDate, Inc.; Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley-Blackwell. Payment for educational events: Research to Practice; ExpertConnect; and ReachMD

Dr. Colombo reports the following financial relationships:

Advisory Board: AstraZeneca; Clovis Oncology; Eisai; GSK; Immunogen; Mersana; MSD/Merck; Novocure; Nuvation Bio; Oncxema; Pieris; and Roche

Research Support: AstraZeneca and GSK

Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca; Clovis; MSD/Merk; GSK; and Eisai
Investigator/Researcher: AstraZeneca; GSK; and Roche

The following individuals have no financial relationships to disclose: 

Jeffrey Helfand, DO (Peer Reviewer)
Albert Eubanks, Jr., RN (Peer Reviewer)
Thomas Mitchell (Planning Committee)
David Modrak, PhD (Planning Committee)
Susan H. Yarbrough, CHCP (Planning Committee)
Sandra Caballero, PharmD (Planning Committee)
Sharon Tordoff (Planning Committee)

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Planning Ahead: Maintenance Therapy in Endometrial Cancer
Event Date: 02/01/2024