2025 ASCO Annual Meeting
Erika Hamilton, MD, on ER-Positive HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Vepdegestrant vs Fulvestrant
Erika Hamilton, MD, Director, Breast Cancer Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, reviews data from the global, randomized, phase III VERITAC-2 study, which compared vepdegestrant, an oral PROT...
Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD, on a Novel Regimen for Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer With HRR Alterations
Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD, of the Cancer Institute, University College London, presents findings from the phase III AMPLITUDE trial, which looked at the combination of niraparib and abiraterone acetate...
Ruben A. Mesa, MD, on Essential Thrombocythemia: SURPASS-ET Trial
Ruben A. Mesa, MD, of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, presents results from a phase III trial investigating the efficacy of ro...
Violaine Randrian, MD, PhD, on Lynch Syndrome, Genetics, and Immunotherapy
Violaine Randrian, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and CHU/Université de Poitiers, reviews gene-specific outcomes in patients with Lynch syndrome treated with immune checkpoint inhi...
Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, and Rebecca Alexandra Dent, MD, FASCO, on Breast Cancer Data Highlights: Sequencing of Endocrine Therapy
Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, of City of Hope, and Rebecca Alexandra Dent, MD, FASCO, of National Cancer Centre Singapore, review the results of a biomarker analysis of the DESTINY-Breast06 trial, which ev...
Neil M. Iyengar, MD, on Cancer Risk Reduction: Effects of Menopausal HRT and GLP-1 RAs
Neil M. Iyengar, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews several studies that aimed to answer two questions: does menopausal hormone therapy (HRT) impact overall survival and breast can...
Eric Huttenlocher Bent, MD, PhD, on Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Intensified Hormonal Blockade
Eric Huttenlocher Bent, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews results from the phase II Metacure trial (cohorts B2 and the B2 expansion), which looked at the efficacy of stereota...
Praful Ravi, MBBChir, MRCP, on High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer: Docetaxel With ADT and Radiotherapy
Praful Ravi, MBBChir, MRCP, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presents findings from an ICECaP individual patient-data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on a treatment strategy used in high...
Suneel Deepak Kamath, MD, on Disparities in NIH and Federal Funding Across Different Cancer Types
Suneel Deepak Kamath, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, reports findings from a study that evaluated funding from the NIH and Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs supporting lung, breast, col...
Luis G. Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, on Extensive-Stage SCLC: Comparison of First-Line Regimens
Luis G. Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, H12O-CNIO Lung Cancer Unit, Universidad Complutense and Ciberonc, discusses data from the TIGOS trial, a phase III study comparing t...
Luis G. Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, on IMforte Trial in Extensive-Stage SCLC
Luis G. Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, H12O-CNIO Lung Cancer Unit, Universidad Complutense and Ciberonc, presents primary results from the phase III IMforte trial, which e...
Nitin Jain, MD, on Front-Line Therapies for CLL: Research Highlights From ASCO 2025
Nitin Jain, MD, Professor in the Department of Leukemia and Director of the Leukemia CAR-T Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, shares his expert point of view on data present...
Shahzad Raza, MD, on Relapsed or Refractory AL Amyloidosis: First U.S. Trial of CAR T-Cell Therapy
Shahzad Raza, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, reviews safety and efficacy data from Nexicart-2, the first U.S.-based trial of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy—an agent known as Nxc-201—in p...
Jamie E. Chaft, MD, FASCO, on Resectable EGFR-Mutated NSCLC: NeoADAURA Results
Jamie E. Chaft, MD, FASCO, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, reviews results of the NeoADAURA trial, which looked at neoadjuvant osimertinib with or without ...
Bjorn Henning Gronberg, MD, PhD, on SCLC: Adjuvant Immunotherapy After CRT
Bjorn Henning Gronberg, MD, PhD, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and St. Olavs Hospital, presents phase II findings on the efficacy of atezolizumab after chemoradiotherapy (CR...
Nicholas D. James, PhD, FRCP, MBBS, on Using AI to Identify Benefit From Prostate Cancer Therapy
Nicholas D. James, PhD, FRCP, MBBS, of The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, describes the use of a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model to identify ben...
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO, on How Does Androgen Receptor Inhibition Affect Quality of Life?
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses health-related quality-of-life data from the phase III ARANOTE trial, which evaluated the androgen receptor inhibitor daro...
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, on Tarlatamab vs Chemotherapy for Second-Line Treatment of SCLC: Expert Point of View
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, of Mayo Clinic Florida, offers his thoughts on findings from the primary analysis of the phase III DeLLphi-304 trial, which compared tarlatamab-dlle, a bispecific T-cell e...
Asaf Maoz, MD, on Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: Multimodality Screening Program
Asaf Maoz, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School, reviews the results of a prospective study of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging as part of cancer screen...
Asaf Maoz, MD, on Pancreatic Surveillance Eligibility Criteria
Asaf Maoz, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School, discusses the sensitivity of age and family history criteria for determining eligibility for pancreatic canc...
Martin Reck, MD, PhD, on Postsurgical MRD, Genomic Mutations, and Outcomes in Resectable NSCLC: AEGEAN Trial
Martin Reck, MD, PhD, of LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Germany, discusses data from the phase III AEGEAN trial that studied perioperative durvalumab and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Patients who were MRD-p...
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, on Tarlatamab vs Chemotherapy for Second-Line Treatment of SCLC: Expert Point of View
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, of Mayo Clinic Florida, offers his thoughts on findings from the primary analysis of the phase III DeLLphi-304 trial, which compared tarlatamab-dlle, a bispecific T-cell e...
Frank A. Sinicrope, MD, on Adjuvant Treatment Strategies for Stage III dMMR Colon Cancer
Frank A. Sinicrope, MD, of Mayo Clinic Rochester, reviews findings from the randomized Alliance A021502/ATOMIC trial, which studied standard chemotherapy alone or combined with atezolizumab as adjuvan...
Alicia Latham, MD, MS, on Using ctDNA to Detect Endometrial Cancer
Alicia Latham, MD, MS, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the feasibility of using Pap-derived ctDNA for the detection of sporadic and Lynch syndrome–associated endometrial cancer (A...
Stephen K.L. Chia, MD, FRCPC, on Advanced HER2-Negative and ER-Positive Breast Cancer: SERD and AKT Inhibitor
Stephen K.L. Chia, MD, FRCPC, of BC Cancer Agency, reviews data from the phase III CCTG/BCT MA.40/FINER trial of fulvestrant and ipatasertib for advanced HER2-negative, ER-positive breast cancer follo...
David R. Spigel, MD, FASCO, on NSCLC Treatment Planning: Role of 14-Gene Molecular Assay
David R. Spigel, MD, FASCO, Chief Scientific Officer of Sarah Cannon Research Institute, reviews data on the role of a 14-gene molecular assay in selecting patients with stage IA–IIA non–small cell lu...
Angela R. Bradbury, MD, on Genetic Testing Approach in Patients With Metastatic Cancers
Angela R. Bradbury, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, presents findings from the eREACH trial—a randomized study of an eHEALTH delivery alternative for cancer genetic testing for hereditary predi...
Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD, on Telemedicine in Clinical Trials
Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD, of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses a recently opened telemedici...
Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, on Liquid Biopsy in Glioblastoma
Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, of Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, discusses the ongoing LIBERATE trial, which is evaluating safety and technical efficacy of transcrania...
Karen Eubanks Jackson on Receiving the 2025 ASCO Patient Advocate Award
Karen Eubanks Jackson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sisters Network Inc. and recipient of the 2025 ASCO Patient Advocate Award, discusses her 30-year-long effort to support patients with bre...
Elena Elez, MD, PhD, on Updated Survival Data From the BREAKWATER Trial
Elena Elez, MD, PhD, of Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, presents updated overall survival data as well as progression-free survival data from the BREAKWATER trial of the first-line use of encoraf...
Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, FASCO, on PD-L1–Positive Advanced TNBC: First-Line Doublet Comparison
Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, discusses findings from the phase III ASCENT-04/KEYNOTE-D19 study, which compared sacituzumab govitecan-hzi...
Arelis Esther Martir-Negron, MD, on Prevalence of BRCA Variants in Hispanic Residents of South Florida
South Florida has a unique demographic, characterized by a large Hispanic population with ancestries from the Caribbean and Central and South America. Arelis Esther Martir-Negron, MD, of Miami Cancer ...
Mafalda Oliveira, MD, PhD, on How Does Hyperglycemia Affect Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer?
Mafalda Oliveira, MD, PhD, of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, discusses findings on the incidence and management of hyperglycemia in a subset of patients wit...
David Allen Barbie, MD, on Clinical and Molecular Features of Participants in the ADRIATIC Trial
David Allen Barbie, MD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reviews specific clinical and molecular features of early progressors and long-term progression-free s...
Andrew J. Armstrong, MD, MS, on ARCHES: 5-Year Overall Survival Follow-up
Andrew J. Armstrong, MD, MS, of Duke Cancer Institute Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, Duke University School of Medicine, discusses the 5-year overall survival analysis of the ARCHES trial, ...
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FASCO, FACP, on ASCO Guidelines Assistant
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FASCO, FACP, Chief Executive Officer of ASCO, discusses ASCO Guidelines Assistant, an AI-based collaboration between ASCO and Google Cloud which draws from ASCO’s evidence-based...
Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, on MSI-H/dMMR Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Expanded Analyses From CheckMate 8HW
Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, of the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, reviews analyses from the CheckMate 8HW trial, which evaluated nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs chemother...
Mazyar Shadman, MD, PhD, on Doublet for Treatment-Naive CLL/SLL
Mazyar Shadman, MD, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the University of Washington, presents results from arm D of the SEQUOIA trial, which evaluated the combination of zanubrutinib and veneto...
Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, on Gastric/GEJ Cancer: Immunotherapy Plus FLOT
Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents event-free survival data from the phase III MATTERHORN trial of the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab plus FLOT (fluorouracil, leu...
Raffaele Califano, MD, on EGFR-Mutant Advanced NSCLC: MARIPOSA-2
Raffaele Califano, MD, of the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Manchester, discusses outcomes by osimertinib resistance mechanisms in MARIPOSA-2, a study that evaluated the efficacy...
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, on Treating Emergent ESR1 Mutations in Advanced Breast Cancer
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital, presents findings from the phase III, double-blind ctDNA-guided SERENA-6 trial, which evaluated the combination of camizestrant plus a CDK4/...
Stuart J. Wong, MD, on Adjuvant Regimen in Resected HNSCC
Stuart J. Wong, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin and Plenary discussant, reviews findings from the phase III NIVOPOSTOP randomized trial, which investigated the adjuvant use of nivolumab added ...
Andrew Kuykendall, MD, on Hepcidin Mimetic for Polycythemia Vera
Andrew Kuykendall, MD, of Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses findings from the phase III VERIFY trial, which compared the efficacy of rusfertide vs placebo in patients with polycythemia vera who continu...
Christopher M. Booth, MD, on a Structured Exercise Program for Patients With Colon Cancer
Christopher M. Booth, MD, of Queen’s University, reviews findings from the randomized phase III Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) CO.21 (CHALLENGE) trial, which evaluated the impact of a structured ...
Constantine Si Lun Tam, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, MBBS, on CLL/SLL: First-Line Zanubrutinib Monotherapy in Patients With del(17p)
Constantine Si Lun Tam, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, MBBS, of Alfred Hospital and Monash University, reviews results from the 5-year follow-up of arm C of the SEQUOIA trial of treatment-naive patients with chron...
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, on INAVO120: Final Overall Survival Analysis
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital, presents final overall survival data from the INAVO120 trial of inavolisib/placebo plus palbociclib and fulvestrant in patients with PIK3CA-...
Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD, on Patient-Reported Outcomes From EMBER-3
Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD, of Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, IRCCS, University of Milano, discusses patient-reported outcomes from the phase III EMBER-3 trial, which investigated treatment with iml...
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, on Lisocabtagene Maraleucel in Relapsed/Refractory CLL: TRANSCEND CLL 004
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses two abstracts on lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel) in relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukem...
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, on Fixed-Duration Ibrutinib and Venetoclax in First-Line CLL
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews the final analysis of phase II CAPTIVATE study demonstrating the long-term efficacy and safety of ibrutinib pl...
