ASCO 2026
Losing Weight and Breast Cancer Risk? The GLP-1 Question
The rapid adoption of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for obesity and diabetes has sparked interest in their potential effects on breast cancer risk and outcomes. At the 2026 ASC...
TMC-I Regimen May Expand Treatment Access in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
A lower-cost chemoimmunotherapy approach including triple oral metronomic chemotherapy (TMC) combined with ultra-low-dose immunotherapy termed TMC-I could extend survival for patients with advanced he...
Structured Exercise After Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer Improves Survival and Saves Costs
A structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved survival and saved money. In a preplanned cost-utility analysis of the phase III CHALLENGE trial, presented at the 2...
ASCENT-04 Exploratory Analysis: Sacituzumab Govitecan Plus Pembrolizumab Improves PFS2, Delays Next Treatment
First-line treatment with the antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan-hziy plus pembrolizumab led to a longer progression-free survival after next line of treatment—ie, progression-free survival...
The 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting Geriatric Oncology Update: The Next Challenge Is Implementation
For more than a decade, geriatric oncology has evolved from a niche discipline into an evidence-based component of high-quality cancer care. Landmark randomized trials, including the Geriatric Assessm...
Additional Safety Analysis of DESTINY-Breast05: What Did It Show?
An additional safety analysis of the global phase III DESTINY-Breast05 trial evaluating the HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) has further established the pu...
Phase III OPTIMA Trial: Many Patients With ER-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer May Be Able to Avoid Chemotherapy
New results from the international, randomized, phase III OPTIMA trial indicate that select patients with clinically high-risk, estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer who have a...
Darovasertib Plus Crizotinib May Set New First-Line Standard in HLA-A2–Negative Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
First-line treatment with darovasertib plus crizotinib significantly improved progression-free survival and response rates compared with investigator’s choice of treatment in patients with HLA-A2–nega...
ASCO 2026: Multiple Myeloma Studies Highlight Advances Across the Field
The plasma cell dyscrasia oral abstract session at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting featured several pivotal trials that advanced the field, including those highlighted here. Coverage of new treatments fo...
EMERALD-3 Shows Benefit With STRIDE Plus TACE in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Results of the phase III EMERALD-3 trial showed that combining transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with the immunotherapy-based STRIDE regimen, (single tremelimumab[an anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte–a...
Wassim McHayleh, MD, FACP, MBA, on Elacestrant Plus Capivasertib in ER-Positive/HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Update From ELEVATE
Wassim McHayleh, MD, FACP, MBA, of AdventHealth Cancer Institute, provides an update from the phase Ib/II ELEVATE trial, an open-label umbrella study. This report focuses on updated safety and prelimi...
Antonio Llombart-Cussac, MD, PhD, on ADELA: Elacestrant Plus Everolimus in ESR1-Mutated ER-Positive HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer
Antonio Llombart-Cussac, MD, PhD, of Medica Scientia Innovation Research (MEDSIR), discusses the ongoing ADELA study, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized phase III trial of elacestrant plus...
Daniel A. Ermann, MD, on First-Line Therapy for CLL: Real-World Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Daniel A. Ermann, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, presents findings from a retrospective cohort study which used a large U.S. database to evaluate clinical out...
Daniel A. Ermann, MD, on Two Agents in Treatment-Naive Patients With CLL: Real-World Treatment and Survival Outcomes
Daniel A. Ermann, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, reviews data from a retrospective analysis that compared the real-world effectiveness of monotherapy first-li...
Michael G. Fradley, MD: How Does Atrial Fibrillation Affect Outcomes and Health-Care Utilization Among Patients With CLL?
Michael G. Fradley, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, discusses findings from a study which evaluated impact of atrial fibrillation on cardiovascular outcomes (stroke, bleeding...
Paving New ROADS in the Treatment of Brain Metastases With Implanted Tile-Based Radiation Therapy
Tile-based radiation therapy (TBRT) implanted at the time of resection outperformed standard postoperative stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) in the phase III Radiation One and Done Study (ROADS), i...
SENOMAC Trial: Omission of Completion Axillary Dissection Is Oncologically Safe in Expanded Breast Cancer Population
The international non-inferiority SENOMAC trial has confirmed that omitting completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is oncologically safe (ie, a less intensive approach does not compromise ou...
Abemaciclib Reduces Disease Progression, Death in Rare, Aggressive Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
In the treatment of advanced dedifferentiated liposarcoma, a rare and aggressive soft-tissue sarcoma, the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death by...
Jennifer A. Woyach, MD, on Pretreated Relapsed or Refractory CLL/SLL: Ongoing ROCKET-CLL Trial
Jennifer A. Woyach, MD, of The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University, discusses the ongoing, actively recruiting ROCKET-CLL trial, which...
MIBC: Intravesical Recombinant BCG and Chemoimmunotherapy
In a Swiss phase II trial (SAKK 06/19) reported at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract 4503) and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cathomas et al found that the addition of intravesica...
Paolo Tarantino, MD, PhD, on HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: Overall Survival by Genomic Profile
Paolo Tarantino, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reviews the results of a large clinicogenomic database study that looked at overall survival by genomic profile among patients with HER2-posi...
François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD, on Advanced Breast Cancer With Emergent ESR1 Mutations: First-Line Option
François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD, of Institut Curie, presents final progression-free survival 2 findings from the phase III SERENA-6 trial, which investigated the efficacy of camizestrant, a selective...
Gerneiva Parkinson, MD, on Time on Systemic Therapy for Patients With HR-Positive Breast Cancer and a Pathogenic Variant
Gerneiva Parkinson, MD, of Stanford Cancer Institute, discusses time on treatment for systemic therapies among women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer and a pathogenic variant in BRCA1...
Siddhartha Yadav, MBBS, MD, on Germline Pathogenic Variants Among Patients With Breast or Ovarian Cancer
Siddhartha Yadav, MBBS, MD, of Mayo Clinic Rochester, talks about a real-world evaluation of germline pathogenic variants in cancer predisposition genes in unselected South Asian women with breast or ...
Martine J. Piccart-Gebhart, MD, PhD, on Personalizing Treatments in HR-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
Martine J. Piccart-Gebhart, MD, PhD, of Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, reviews multiple abstracts discussing avenues of personalized treatment for patients with hormone recepto...
TP53 Mutation Acquisition Timing Influences Prognosis in MPNs, Study Finds
The timing of TP53 mutation acquisition carries important prognostic implications for patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) and myelodysplastic syndromes/MPN overlap disorders. Later emerg...
Elizabeth Smyth, MD, on New Data in Gastric/Gastroesophageal Cancers
Elizabeth Smyth, MD, of Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, discusses three major studies presented at this year’s meeting: the antibody-drug conjugate izalontamab brengitecan ...
Katharina C. Kaehler, MD, on Daromun in Resectable Locally Advanced Melanoma: Trial Updates
Katharina C. Kaehler, MD, of University Hospital (UKSH), Campus Kiel, presents an update on the primary outcome and sensitivity analyses from the PIVOTAL phase III trial of daromun, a combination of t...
Dor Abelman, BS, on Multiple Myeloma: cfDNA WGS vs Plasma Proteomics for Minimally Invasive MRD Assessment
Dor Abelman, BS, of the University of Toronto, reviews results of a comparison of two minimally invasive measurable residual disease (MRD) assays—BM-informed cfDNA whole-genome sequencing (cfWGS) and ...
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, on Update on the DESTINY-Breast05 Trial
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, of Cleveland Clinic, provides an update on the DESTINY-Breast05 trial, which is an ongoing phase III trial investigating postneoadjuvant trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) as compa...
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, on First Results of the OPTIMA Trial in Breast Cancer: Expert Perspective
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, of Cleveland Clinic, offers his thoughts on findings from OPTIMA (Optimal Personalised Treatment of early breast cancer using Multi-parameter Analysis), an international random...
Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, on Gynecologic Cancers: Expert Perspective on Major Data
Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, of the University of California, Irvine, provides commentary on research presented in the oral abstract and rapid oral abstract sessions for gynecologic cancer, focusing on t...
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, on Updates on SCLC: No Longer Too Small to Ignore
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, of Mayo Clinic Florida, summarizes an educational session at ASCO that reviewed the state of the field of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) treatment. After decades of limited...
Tafasitamab/Lenalidomide Combination vs R-CHOP in High-Risk DLBCL: Phase III frontMIND Trial
In patients newly diagnosed with high-risk large B-cell lymphoma, the addition of the CD19 monoclonal antibody tafasitamab plus the immunomodulatory drug lenalidomide (Tafa/Len) to standard therapy le...
Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, FASCO, on Adjuvant Selpercatinib in RET Fusion–Positive Early-Stage NSCLC: Expert Perspective
Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, FASCO, of City of Hope, offers her thoughs on the findings of the LIBRETTO-432 trial, which found improved event-free survival with adjuvant selpercatinib after definitive th...
Elizabeth McDonald, MD, PhD, on GLP-1 Agonists and Breast Cancer Incidence
Elizabeth McDonald, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses results from a retrospective cohort study that showed that the use of GLP-1 treatment was associated with a significantly lowe...
Mali Barbi, MD, MS, on Endometrial Cancer: Data in dMMR Disease and B7-H4 ADCs for Advanced Disease
Mali Barbi, MD, MS, of Northwell Health Cancer Institute Center for Women's Cancer, discusses durable survival benefits shown in the NRG-GY018 trial with pembrolizumab and the RUBY trial with dostarli...
Suneel Kamath, MD, on Correlation Between Blood and Tissue Tumor Mutation Burden
Suneel Kamath, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, discusses a study that found tissue tumor mutation burden (TMB) was a stronger predictor of immunotherapy outcomes than blood-based circulating tumor DNA testin...
Daneng Li, MD, on Tegavivint in Advanced HCC
Daneng Li, MD, of City of Hope, discusses dose-finding results from a phase I/II trial of tegavivint, a downstream Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor, in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Ab...
Joel W. Neal, MD, PhD, on the CHRYSALIS-2 Study in Atypical EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC
Joel W. Neal, MD, PhD, of Stanford Cancer Institute, discusses updated overall survival data from cohort C of the CHRYSALIS-2 trial, which looked at first-line amivantamab plus lazertinib in previousl...
Hannah L. Kenny, MD, and Joseph M. Curry, MD, on BCC of the Head and Neck: Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab
Hannah L. Kenny, MD, and Joseph M. Curry, MD, both of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, discuss results of a phase II trial of neoadjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc in patients with hedgehog inhibitor–naive...
Addition of Talazoparib to Enzalutamide in Metastatic Androgen Pathway Modulation–Sensitive Prostate Cancer
As reported at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Agarwal et al, the phase III TALAPRO-3 trial has shown improved imaging-based progression-free survival with t...
Sunvozertinib in NSCLC With EGFR Exon 20 Insertion Mutations
As reported at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Zhou et al, the phase III WU-KONG28 trial has shown that first-line sunvozertinib improved progression-free su...
Teclistamab in Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma
As reported at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Touzeau et al, an interim analysis of the phase III MajesTEC-9 trial has shown improved progression-free survi...
Gopa Iyer, MD, on LY4052031 for Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma
Gopa Iyer, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents initial results from the phase I NEXUS-01 study, which evaluated LY4052031, an antibody-drug conjugate targeting Nectin-4, in patient...
Dai Chihara, MD, on a Regimen for Older, Unfit, or Frail Patients With Newly Diagnosed DLBCL
Dai Chihara, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews results from an open-label, single-arm, phase II trial that investigated the combination of epcoritamab with R-miniCVP (r...
Walter Weber, MD, on Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction Techniques After Mastectomy
Walter Weber, MD, of University Hospital Basel, presents data from the international randomized phase III PREPEC trial (OPBC-02), which found prepectoral implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) sig...
Laura Alder, MD, on New Data on Combination Therapy, Immunotherapy, and ADCs in Small Cell Lung Cancer
Laura Alder, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, highlights emerging data discussed in the meeting’s oral abstract session on small cell lung cancer, including increased toxicity without efficacy b...
Lucy Gilbert, MD, on Overall Survival by Prior Taxane Use in the Phase III ROSELLA Trial
Lucy Gilbert, MD, of McGill University Health Centre, discusses subgroup analyses from the ROSELLA study. Relacorilant plus nab-paclitaxel demonstrated a statistically and clinically significant overa...
Jamie E. Chaft, MD, FASCO, on Nivolumab After Surgery and Adjuvant Chemotherapy in NSCLC
Jamie E. Chaft, MD, FASCO, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses findings from ECOG-ACRIN EA5142/ALCHEMIST, a phase III randomized trial that evaluated the efficacy of adjuvant nivoluma...
