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Opinion|Videos|May 28, 2025

Single-Agent Vs Combination Regimens

Explore the latest advancements in ovarian cancer treatment, focusing on combination therapies and innovative approaches for platinum-resistant patients.

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Single Agent Vs Combination Regimens in Platinum-Resistant Disease

Key Discussion Points:

  • Established Combination Therapies
  • Bevacizumab plus chemotherapy remains standard of care in platinum-resistant setting

  • Weekly paclitaxel combined with bevacizumab increases response rates from 30% to 50%

  • Many patients cannot receive bevacizumab due to contraindications (hypertension, bowel obstruction, extensive intestinal disease)
  • Emerging Combination Approaches
  • Ongoing trials examining new combinations (olvimulogene nanivacirepvec [olvi-vec] with chemotherapy, relacorilant, and abraxane)

  • Bevacizumab with mirvetuximab showing promise in specific clinical situations

  • Limited true synergistic combinations identified to date in clinical practice
  • PICCOLO Trial Data
  • Single-arm trial of approximately 80 patients with folate receptor alpha–high recurrent disease

  • 52% response rate with mirvetuximab in platinum-sensitive patients after ≥2 lines of platinum

  • Duration of response just under 8 months with approximately 50% having previously progressed on PARP inhibitors

Notable Insights:

  1. “PICCOLO is our really first successful look at...replacing platinum with another agent. We’ve tried to do it in the past with a study called MITO8, which was pre-PARP...but it was ahead of its time.”
  2. “Unless something’s truly synergistic—which, newsflash—nothing is. Synergy is not a thing clinically. It’s a thing in mice.”
  3. “Sometimes you’re using combos, and you’re just using up medications together that you could sequence with less toxicity and probably more benefit to the patient.”