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2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

Global Cancer Care

Shared Reflections on the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting: From Networking to Mentorship and More, Part 2

In the October 10, 2024, issue of The ASCO Post, we shared some unique insights from several recipients of the international development and education award (IDEA). As oncologists and cancer researche...

Global Cancer Care

Shared Reflections on the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting: From Networking to Mentorship and More

The ASCO Annual Meeting brings together oncologists, researchers, and health-care professionals to share the latest advancements in cancer care. The 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting (ASCO24) was particularly ...

Bladder Cancer

Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy Extends Survival in Lymph Node–Only Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

The combination of nivolumab plus gemcitabine/cisplatin chemotherapy achieved high response rates and durable responses and improved overall survival and progression-free survival compared with gemcit...

Breast Cancer

T-DXd Effective for Breast Tumors With HER2-Low and HER2-Ultralow Expression in Earlier Line of Therapy

In patients with hormone receptor–positive metastatic breast cancers with HER2-low or HER2-ultralow expression, treatment with the antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd) was f...

Skin Cancer

Adjuvant Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib for Stage III BRAF V600–Mutated Melanoma: Final Results of the COMBI-AD Trial

Georgina V. Long, MD, PhD, of the Melanoma Institute Australia and the University of Sydney, and colleagues reported the final follow-up analysis of the phase III COMBI-AD trial at the 2024 ASCO Annua...

Lymphoma

Triplet Combination Improves Survival in Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in Third-Line Setting

The anti-CD30 antibody-drug conjugate brentuximab vedotin is a standard of care for certain types of lymphomas, including classical Hodgkin lymphoma in combination with multiagent chemotherapy. Brentu...

Gastroesophageal Cancer

ESOPEC Trial: FLOT Protocol Proves Superior to CROSS Regimen in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer

The phase III ESOPEC trial, conducted in Germany, compared two regimens for locally advanced esophageal cancer and found an overall survival benefit with the perioperative FLOT protocol over the neoad...

Multiple Myeloma

Two Phase III Trials Report Benefit With Isatuximab-Based Regimens in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

In newly diagnosed, transplant-ineligible patients with multiple myeloma, treatment with the anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody isatuximab plus bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) led to a 40...

Colorectal Cancer

Long-Term Survival Possible After Liver Transplant for Colorectal Liver Metastases

In selected patients with unresectable colorectal liver metastases, liver transplantation plus chemotherapy significantly boosted overall survival as compared with chemotherapy alone in the multicente...

Breast Cancer

A Role for Avelumab in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer?

In patients with triple-negative early breast cancer deemed to be at high risk for recurrence, 1 year of adjuvant avelumab did not significantly improve disease-free survival but did significantly imp...

Breast Cancer

Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate Extends Survival vs Chemotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

The antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab tirumotecan extended overall survival as well as progression-free survival vs chemotherapy in patients with previously treated triple-negative breast cancer, ac...

Prostate Cancer

MAST Trial: Metformin Does Not Slow Disease Progression of Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

The hypoglycemic agent metformin failed to slow disease progression in men with low-risk localized prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance, according to the results of the randomized, controlle...

Skin Cancer

RELATIVITY-048: Triplet Immunotherapy Shows Activity in Untreated Advanced Melanoma

As a first-line treatment of advanced melanoma, the triplet immunotherapy regimen of nivolumab, relatlimab-rmbw, and ipilimumab produced high response rates and promising progression-free and overall ...

Gastroesophageal Cancer

In Gastroesophageal Cancer, ‘Switch’ Maintenance Improves Outcomes Over Chemotherapy Continuation

In patients with advanced HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer and disease control after oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy, “switch” maintenance with paclitaxel plus ramucirumab in t...

Lung Cancer

Second-Line Therapy With Adagrasib in KRAS G12C–Mutated Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Second-line therapy with the KRAS inhibitor adagrasib modestly improved progression-free survival and objective response rate over docetaxel in previously treated patients with advanced KRAS G12C–muta...

breast cancer

Milana Bergamino Sirvén, MD, PhD, on HER2-Positive Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Molecular Profiling, Prognosis, and Treatment Options

Milana Bergamino Sirvén, MD, PhD, of Spain’s Institute of Cancer Research, discusses her findings on molecular profiling of patients with estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-positive early-stage breast t...

breast cancer

Ciara C. O’Sullivan, MD, MBBCh, on HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Expert Commentary on Treatments Under Study

Ciara C. O’Sullivan, MD, MBBCh, of Mayo Clinic, discusses three studies of treatment for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and their clinical implications: the EMERALD trial of erib...

Breast Cancer

Phase III postMONARCH Trial: Switching to Abemaciclib May Improve Outcomes After Disease Progression

For hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer that has progressed on CDK4/6 inhibition plus endocrine therapy, the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib plus fulvestrant significantly re...

Gynecologic Cancers

Estrogen Alone Increased Ovarian Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Combination Hormone Therapy Did Not

In 2002, the federally funded Women’s Health Initiative (WHI),1 a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial investigating menopausal hormone therapy for healthy menopausal women, was abruptly halt...

Breast Cancer
Survivorship

Long-Term Study Finds Most Breast Cancer Survivors Were Able to Preserve Fertility and Achieve Pregnancy After Diagnosis

Research examining fertility and attempts at pregnancy among young women after a breast cancer diagnosis has been hampered by short-term follow-up and a lack of prospective assessment of pregnancy att...

Gynecologic Cancers

Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy: Can It Be Safely Omitted for Some Patients With Advanced Ovarian Cancer?

Adding retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy to cytoreductive surgery during primary debulking surgery or interval cytoreductive surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy failed to improve progression-free or ...

Multiple Myeloma

DREAMM-8: Belantamab Mafodotin-blmf Shows ‘Robust’ Benefit in Early Relapse of Myeloma

Recent phase III findings support the antibody-drug conjugate belantamab mafodotin-blmf as a treatment option for patients with multiple myeloma in early relapse. Belantamab mafodotin is an antibody-d...

Lung Cancer
Palliative Care

Advanced Lung Cancer: Studies Explore Palliative Care Delivered by Telehealth and in a Stepped-Care Approach

Early palliative care can be integrated into the course of treatment for patients with advanced lung cancer via delivery by telehealth with outcomes similar to when palliative care is delivered via in...

Lung Cancer

Durvalumab Consolidation Therapy Extends Survival in Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Consolidation therapy with the PD-L1 antibody durvalumab after chemoradiotherapy extended survival in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) compared with standard-of-care chemoradi...

Skin Cancer

Adjuvant Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib for Stage III BRAF V600–Mutated Melanoma

As reported at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract 9500) and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Georgina V. Long, MD, PhD, and colleagues, the final, 8-year follow-up analysis of the phase I...

Lymphoma
Immunotherapy

Phase I Study in NHL: Use of ‘Armored’ CAR T Cells May Be Feasible After Standard CAR T-Cell Failure

A novel “armored” chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell appears to be feasible for retreatment of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) who fail to respond to standard CAR T-cell therapy, accordin...

Multiple Myeloma

Lenalidomide-Exposed Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma: BPd vs PVd

As reported at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract LBA105) and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Meletios Dimopoulos, MD, and colleagues, an interim analysis from the phase III DREAMM-8 tri...

Multiple Myeloma

Newly Diagnosed Patients With Multiple Myeloma Ineligible for Transplant: Addition of Isatuximab to VRd

As reported at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract 7500) and in The New England Journal of Medicine by Thierry Facon, MD, and colleagues, interim analysis of the phase III IMROZ trial showed signif...

CNS Cancers
Issues in Oncology

Novel Gamma-Delta T Cell–Based Therapy Plus Temozolomide Maintenance in Glioblastoma Multiforme

The novel therapy INB-200 in combination with concomitant temozolomide may improve survival in patients with glioblastoma multiforme, according to preliminary findings from a phase I clinical trial pr...

Hematologic Malignancies
Palliative Care

Integrating Palliative Care Education Into Hematology-Oncology Fellowships

An integrated palliative care rotation for hematology-oncology fellows may improve their palliative care knowledge and skill confidence, according to findings presented by Bauman et al at the 2024 ASC...

multiple myeloma

Claudio Cerchione, MD, PhD, on Staging Multiple Myeloma: New Findings on FDG PET/CT Scans and Whole-Body MRI

Claudio Cerchione, MD, PhD, of Italy’s Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, discusses preliminary findings from a prospective trial suggesting that by adding whole-body M...

issues in oncology

Andrew Srisuwananukorn, MD, and Alexander T. Pearson, MD, PhD, on Artificial Intelligence in the Clinic: Understanding How to Use This 21st Century Tool

Andrew Srisuwananukorn, MD, of The Ohio State University, and Alexander T. Pearson, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, discuss the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the clinic, its potential ...

Skin Cancer
Immunotherapy

NADINA Trial Shows Robust Benefit for Neoadjuvant Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Stage III Melanoma

Results of the phase III NADINA trial support a new standard of care for the treatment of resectable macroscopic stage III melanoma. Treatment with preoperative ipilimumab plus nivolumab followed by t...

Lung Cancer

Osimertinib Therapy Poised to Become New Standard of Care for Unresectable Stage III EGFR-Mutated NSCLC

Osimertinib significantly improved progression-free survival compared with placebo in patients with unresectable stage III EGFR-mutated non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following definitive chemora...

Sarcoma
Immunotherapy

Can Pembrolizumab Improve Outcomes in Soft-Tissue Sarcoma?

The PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab may offer benefit in patients with soft-tissue sarcoma, according to recent findings presented by Mowery et al at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract 11504). Backgr...

Pancreatic Cancer
Issues in Oncology

Addition of Chemoradiation to Adjuvant Systemic Therapy: Differences in Node-Negative vs Node-Positive Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers have examined whether adding chemoradiation to adjuvant systemic therapy may improve survival outcomes in patients with resected periampullary pancreatic adenocarcinoma, according to recen...

Lung Cancer
Genomics/Genetics

Study Identifies Subset of Patients With Lung Adenocarcinoma Who Have HER2 Alterations

Researchers have found that about 6% of patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and KRAS, EGFR, or ALK gene mutations may also have HER2 alterations, according to recent findings presented by...

colorectal cancer

Andrea Cercek, MD, on Rectal Cancer: Durable Complete Responses to PD-1 Blockade Alone

Andrea Cercek, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses expanded data on the durability of complete response to dostarlimab-gxly, a PD-1 single-agent therapy administered to patients w...

Head and Neck Cancer
Issues in Oncology

Proton Therapy vs Traditional Radiation Therapy in Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer

Intensity-modulated proton therapy may achieve similar clinical outcomes and offer significant benefits compared with traditional intensity-modulated radiation therapy in patients with oropharyngeal c...

Colorectal Cancer
Immunotherapy
Genomics/Genetics

Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab May Improve Outcomes in Some Patients With Colorectal Cancer Surgery

Researchers examined whether the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab given neoadjuvantly may improve outcomes in certain patients with stage II or III mismatch repair–deficient/microsatellite instability–hig...

Lung Cancer
Palliative Care

New Study Highlights Benefits of Stepped Palliative Care in Advanced Lung Cancer

Researchers have shown the effectiveness of more scalable ways of delivering palliative care in patients with advanced lung cancer, according to new findings published by Temel et al in JAMA and simul...

Breast Cancer
Issues in Oncology

Novel ctDNA Liquid Biopsy May Help Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence Years Before Relapse

A novel ultrasensitive liquid biopsy may be predictive of breast cancer recurrence up to years prior to relapse in high-risk patients with early breast cancer, according to recent findings presented b...

Lymphoma
Issues in Oncology
Immunotherapy

Novel CAR T-Cell Therapy Under Study in Relapsed or Refractory Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

A novel “armored” type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy called huCART19-IL18 may prove to be effective in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who do not respond to standard CAR T-cell ...

skin cancer

Georgina V. Long, MD, PhD, on BRAF-Mutated Melanoma: Long-Term Follow-up of Adjuvant Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib vs Placebo

Georgina V. Long, MD, PhD, of the Melanoma Institute Australia and The University of Sydney, discusses final results with up to 10 years’ follow-up data of the COMBI-AD study of patients with stage II...

lymphoma

Yasmin H. Karimi, MD, on Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Follow-up on Subcutaneous Epcoritamab Monotherapy

Yasmin H. Karimi, MD, of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses 2.5-year follow-up data on epcoritamab monotherapy for patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymp...

lymphoma

Yasmin H. Karimi, MD, on Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Update on Use of Epcoritamab Plus Chemotherapy

Yasmin H. Karimi, MD, of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses data reaffirming the efficacy and feasibility of using epcoritamab plus R-DHAX/C (rituximab, dexamethasone, c...

prostate cancer

Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, and Samuel R. Denmeade, MD, on Prostate Cancer: Results From the TRANSFORMER Trial

Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Samuel R. Denmeade, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discuss a study showing that patients with metastatic castration-r...

multiple myeloma

Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, and Amrita Y. Krishnan, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Moving BCMA-Directed Therapies to Earlier Use

Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, of Spain’s Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra, and Amrita Y. Krishnan, MD, of the City of Hope Cancer Center, discuss two key studies on B-cell maturation ant...

multiple myeloma

Amrita Y. Krishnan, MD, and Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, on Multiple Myeloma: Findings From the PERSEUS Trial on a Regimen for Transplant-Eligible Patients

Amrita Y. Krishnan, MD, of the City of Hope Cancer Center, and Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, of Spain’s Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra, discuss data that appear to further support dara...

leukemia
lymphoma

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, on CLL/SLL: Updated Findings on Ibrutinib and Venetoclax

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses up to 5.5 years of follow-up data from the phase II CAPTIVATE study, showing that in patients with chronic l...

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