Colton Jones, MD, of The University of Texas at San Antonio, talks about the results of a global, multicenter analysis that sought to determine the safety and efficacy of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for the primary prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a...
Xin Gao, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses initial results from the phase I EXCEED trial of LY4101174, a Nectin-4–targeting antibody-drug conjugate, for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (Abstract 4517).
Noelle Cloven, MD, of Texas Oncology, discusses the actively recruiting RAINFOL-03 (ENGOT-EN-31/GOG-3128) study, a global, phase III, open-label, randomized study of rinatabart sesutecan vs investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with endometrial cancer after receipt of platinum-based...
Krishnan R. Patel, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, discusses a combined analysis of the NRG/RTOG 9202, 9413, 9902, and 0521 trials that looked at using clinico-transcriptomic risk stratification to guide abiraterone treatment intensification among patients with high-risk prostate cancer...
Mark A. Dickson, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents findings from SARC041, a phase III randomized double-blind study of abemaciclib vs placebo in patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma; patients who received abemaciclib experienced a statistically significant improvement in ...
Christopher A. Barker, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews the results of the RAMPART study, a phase II, multicenter, single-arm clinical trial evaluating response-adapted definitive radiotherapy in combination with cemiplimab-rwlc for locally advanced, unresectable cutaneous...
Shailender Bhatia, MD, of the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, presents data from the phase III ADAM trial, a multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study of the anti–PD-L1 antibody avelumab in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma and lymph node...
Jennifer J. Knox, MD, FRCPC, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, provides expert commentary on a phase III study of daraxonrasib vs chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer (Abstract LBA5).
A phase III randomized trial presented at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting found that implanted tile-based radiation therapy significantly reduced local recurrence and improved overall survival compared with postoperative stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) in patients undergoing surgical resection of...
Updated results from the phase III SENOMAC trial suggest that many patients with early-stage breast cancer and limited spread to sentinel lymph nodes can safely forgo axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), avoiding substantial long-term arm morbidity without compromising survival. The findings were ...
Adjuvant treatment with the selective RET inhibitor selpercatinib significantly reduced the risk of disease recurrence, progression, or death among patients with resected stage IB to IIIA RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to results from the phase III LIBRETTO-432...
New findings from the phase III HARMONi-6 trial presented at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting showed that the investigational bispecific antibody ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival compared with tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced...
The investigational multiselective RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib may represent a new standard second-line treatment option for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, according to results from the phase III RASolute 302 trial. In the study, presented by Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH, of ...
Results from the phase III PROTEUS trial indicate that adding the androgen receptor pathway inhibitor apalutamide to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) before and after radical prostatectomy significantly improves outcomes for patients with localized high-risk prostate cancer, according to findings ...
Thomas A. Jandl, MD, PhD, of Stony Brook University Hospital, discusses data from part 1B of the OLYMPIA-3 trial, which showed that among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the safety profile of the first-line combination of odronextamab and CHOP chemotherapy was generally...
Samuel J. Klempner, MD, FASCO, of Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, discusses a single-arm phase II study—which is currently open and enrolling (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT07070466)—evaluating ivonescimab in combination with FOLFOX as front-line therapy in locally advanced, unresectable, ...
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 ovarian cancer (Abstract 10513).
Adam Kibel, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses findings from the phase III PROTEUS trial, which evaluated perioperative (neoadjuvant and adjuvant) apalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy vs placebo and ADT with radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk localized or locally...
Veronica Diermayr, PhD, of EDCC and A*STAR, discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) driven strategy called H&E 2.0 in gastric and esophageal cancer. Researchers tested the feasibility of training deep-learning models on hematoxylin and eosin images of gastroesophageal carcinomas and...
Manali Kamdar, MD, of the University of Colorado, discusses a rapid oral abstract session that highlighted three trends in the field of lymphomas: improving outcomes in frontline diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, continued development of cellular therapies, and expanding molecular profiling.
Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, FACP, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, provides an update focusing on progression-free survival after next line of treatment and subsequent therapies among patients enrolled in the ASCENT-03 trial. The study compared sacituzumab govitecan vs chemotherapy in patients with...
Atish Choudhury, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, talks about findings from the phase II A-DREAM/Alliance A032101 trial, which explored the possibility of androgen-deprivation (ADT) interruption in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who had an exceptional response...
In analyses from the phase III ARANOTE trial reported in The Lancet Oncology, Morgans et al found that darolutamide was associated with prolonged times to worsening pain and worsening health-related quality of life (QOL) compared with placebo in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate...
As reported in The Lancet Oncology by Pfob et al, a pooled analysis of randomized trials showed that performance of lymph node surgery for the sole purpose of determining eligibility for CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment does not appear to be a promising strategy in patients with early breast cancer. As...
ASCO has announced a collaboration with Ryght AI aimed at accelerating the identification and activation of research sites for the CDK4/6 Inhibitor Dosing Knowledge (CDK) Study, a clinical trial evaluating different starting doses of CDK4/6 inhibitors in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The...
The EGFR-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunvozertinib was more effective than standard platinum-based chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations (EGFR exon20ins). Results from the phase III...
The ASCO Annual Meeting is one of the largest and most impactful oncology conferences of the year, featuring practice-changing data, state-of-the-art updates, developmental therapeutics, global issues, and more. The 2026 meeting is expected to showcase paradigm-shifting science, presentations from...
On May 28, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab (Imfinzi) in combination with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for the treatment of adult patients with BCG-naive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Efficacy and Safety Efficacy...
Local radiotherapy may help control disease spread in patients with oligometastatic breast cancer, according to findings from the OLIGOMA trial presented during the Congress of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 2026; Abstract 5611). “Currently, patients with oligometastatic ...
On May 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pivekimab sunirine-pvzy (Decnupaz), a CD123-directed antibody and alkylating agent conjugate, for adults with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN). CADENZA Efficacy was evaluated in CADENZA (ClinicalTrials.gov...
The ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, in collaboration with the SWOG Cancer Research Network, has launched a new initiative to analyze paired original and recurrent tumor specimens from two practice-changing breast cancer clinical trials. Through the translational study EA1241, researchers will...
In 2016, The ASCO Post published an article titled “An Oncologist Battles a Preventable Epidemic: Cancer of the Cervix,” highlighting the work of Robert D. Hilgers, MD—now deceased—and the Women’s Global Cancer Alliance (WGCA) in building a cervical cancer screening and prevention program in...
CB-011, the first allogeneic anti-BCMA chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy incorporating immune cloaking, achieved a high overall response rate in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma in the phase I CaMMouflage trial. Dose-escalation results were...
Two larger doses of radiotherapy for prostate cancer caused no additional side effects compared to the standard five doses of radiotherapy, according to results from the HERMES trial presented at the Congress of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 2026). Experts say the...
Select patients with early-stage breast cancer who achieved exceptional responses to ablative radiation therapy and endocrine therapy were able to omit surgery without disease progression, according to findings from a prospective phase II trial presented during the Congress of the European Society...
In a retrospective cohort study reported in JAMA Network Open, Tatum et al found that use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) was associated with reduced risk of all-cause mortality in patients with breast cancer and obesity or type 2 diabetes (T2D). Study Details The study...
Final results from a landmark European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) randomized trial with more than 20 years of follow-up have shown that irradiation of the internal mammary and medial supraclavicular (IM-MS) lymph nodes reduces breast cancer mortality but does not...
In a phase II trial (COMRADE) reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, McKay et al found that the addition of olaparib to radium-223 improved radiographic progression–free survival in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer and bone metastases. Study Details In the U.S. multicenter...
This is Part 3 of Shared Decisions, Better Outcome: Collaboration in Managing Targeted Therapy for HR-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Erika Hamilton, MD, Melissa Rikal, MSN,...
This is Part 2 of Shared Decisions, Better Outcome: Collaboration in Managing Targeted Therapy for HR-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Erika Hamilton, MD, Melissa Rikal, MSN,...
This is Part 1 of Shared Decisions, Better Outcome: Collaboration in Managing Targeted Therapy for HR-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Erika Hamilton, MD, Melissa Rikal, MSN,...
At 8 am, the infusion chairs are already full. The oncologist is in a room seeing a new patient consult, the pharmacist is adjusting doses based on new lab values, and the advanced practitioner (AP) is sitting with a patient—reviewing symptoms, discussing how to manage treatment side effects, and ...
I remember thinking on the day I turned 60, May 10, 2021, “This is going to be the best year of my life.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Within weeks of feeling that swell of optimism about my future, I began experiencing a series of odd, and, seemingly unrelated symptoms leading to my eventual...
The pace at which precision oncology has evolved over the past 2 decades, from the early promise of the Human Genome Project to the clinical reality of CAR T-cell therapy, antibody drug conjugates, and AI-assisted decision support, has made it increasingly difficult for even the most engaged...
In a recent article in The ASCO Post, we discussed increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology and how physician-complementing AI can empower oncologists to be even better at what they do.1The reason AI is needed is that increasingly many variables need to be considered in cancer...
Patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) when treated at community oncology practices participating in the Flatiron Health Research Network had better or comparable survival compared with national benchmark survival estimates generated by the...
This year has marked unprecedented progress against cancer—as well as challenges. According to findings in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics, 2026 report, the 5-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined has reached a milestone of 70% for individuals diagnosed between 2015...
ASCO has expanded its Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR™) Study with two new developments: The study added its first antibody-drug conjugate, fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd), to determine if a wider group of patients would benefit from this medicine. Separately, the...
ASCO and Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, are proud to celebrate a distinguished group of individuals at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting. The Society will present its highest honors to researchers, educators, patient advocates, and global leaders for their career-defining excellence and tremendous ...
During her Presidential address at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, Robin T. Zon, MD, FACP, FASCO, assessed how artificial intelligence (AI) is driving knowledge into action in the field of oncology, and acknowledged that “we are now at the crossroads of long-imagined possibilities and actionable...