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Jason R. Westin, MD, FASC, on Updated Safety and Efficacy From the SUNMO Trial in LBCL
Jason R. Westin, MD, FASCO, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, provides an update on the safety and efficacy data from the phase III SUNMO trial, which compared mosunetuzumab and polatuzumab vedotin vs rituximab, gemcitabine, and oxaliplatin in patients with relapsed or...
Xin Gao, MD, on Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: LY4101174
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, on RAINFOL-03: Actively Recruiting Trial in Pretreated Endometrial Cancer
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, on High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Clinico-Transcriptomic Risk Stratification
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, on Advanced Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma: SARC041 Trial
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 ...
Julie R. Brahmer, MD, FASCO, on Previously Untreated Advanced Squamous NSCLC: HARMONi-6 Trial
Julie R. Brahmer, MD, FASCO, of the Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, provides expert commentary on the overall survival results from the phase III HARMONi-6 trial presented in this year’s...
Jana de Boniface, MD, PhD, on Breast Cancer With Sentinel Lymph Node Macrometastases: Can Axillary Dissection Be Omitted?
Jana de Boniface, MD, PhD, of Capio Saint Göran's Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, reviews overall survival and patient-reported arm morbidity findings from the SENOMAC trial, which sought to determine if patients with breast cancer and sentinel lymph node macrometastases could omit complete...
Christopher A. Barker, MD, on Locally Advanced Unresectable CSCC: RAMPART Trial
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...
Danny Rischin, MD, on Adjuvant Cemiplimab for High-Risk CSCC
Danny Rischin, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, talks about data from the disease-free survival analyses of the C-POST study, which were conducted per high-risk criteria and start time after radiotherapy. C-POST evaluated adjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous...
Shailender Bhatia, MD, on Adjuvant Avelumab in Patients With Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma
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, on RASolute 302 Findings: Expert Point of View
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).
Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, FASCO, on High-Risk Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma: HRQoL With Pembrolizumab vs Observation
Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, FASCO, of the University of Kansas Medical Center, presents health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data from the AMBASSADOR trial, which showed that in patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma after radical surgery, adjuvant pembrolizumab for 1 year...
Implanted Cesium-131 Tiles Improve Local Control and Survival in Patients With Resected Brain Metastases
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...
Richard Cathomas, MD, on MIBC: Perioperative Intravesical Recombinant BCG Combined With Chemoimmunotherapy
Richard Cathomas, MD, of Cantonal Hospital Graubünden, reviews results from the primary analysis of SAKK 06/19, an open-label single arm phase II trial, which found that the combination of intravesical recombinant bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) with atezolizumab, cisplatin, and gemcitabine was...
Many Patients With Limited Sentinel Node–Positive Breast Cancer Can Safely Avoid Axillary Dissection, Study Shows
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 Selpercatinib Improves Event-Free Survival in RET-Positive Early-Stage NSCLC
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...
Overall Survival Benefit With Ivonescimab Plus Chemotherapy in Advanced Squamous NSCLC
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...
Daraxonrasib Nearly Doubles Survival in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
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 ...
PROTEUS Trial Suggests Perioperative Apalutamide May Improve Outcomes in High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer
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, on DLBCL: First-Line Odronextamab Plus Chemotherapy
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, on Advanced HER2-Negative Gastroesophageal Cancer: Ivonescimab Plus FOLFOX
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, ...
Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, on ER-Positive HER2-Negative Early Breast Cancer: Giredestrant by Menopausal Status
Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, of Queen Mary University of London, shares more data from the phase III lidERA BC clinical trial. This analysis focused on the efficacy and safety of giredestrant in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer, looking at both...
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 ovarian cancer (Abstract 10513).
John M. Burke, MD, on Newly Diagnosed DLBCL: frontMIND Trial
John M. Burke, MD, of SCRI at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers I The US Oncology Network, presents findings from the phase III frontMIND trial, which evaluated tafasitamab plus lenalidomide and R-CHOP in patients newly diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Abstract LBA7000).
Adam Kibel, MD, on PROTEUS Trial in High-Risk Prostate Cancer: A Surgical Oncologist’s Perspective
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...
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, FASCO, on Cognitive Effects of Darolutamide vs Enzalutamide
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses data from the phase II ARACOG (AFT-47) randomized clinical trial, which compared the two androgen receptor pathway inhibitors’ effects on cognitive function in patients with advanced prostate cancer (Abstract 5005).
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 receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, including genomic testing and systemic therapy.
Julie R. Gralow, MD, FACP, FASCO, on Highlights of the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting
Julie R. Gralow, MD, FACP, FASCO, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of ASCO, provides an overview of the highlights of this year’s meeting, including practice-changing data included in the Plenary Session.
Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH, and Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, on Daraxonrasib in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, describe results from the phase III RASolute 302 trial, which evaluated the RAS(ON) muliselective inhibitor daraxonrasib in previously treated patients with metastatic...
Jonathan W. Goldman, MD, on RET Fusion–Positive NSCLC: Adjuvant Selpercatinib
Jonathan W. Goldman, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents event-free survival data from the primary analysis of the phase III LIBRETTO-432 trial, which investigated the efficacy of the kinase inhibitor selpercatinib in patients with stage IB–IIIA RET fusion–positive non–small...
Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, FASCO, on High-Risk Localized or Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer: PROTEUS Trial
Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presents the final analysis of the phase III PROTEUS study, which looked at perioperative (neoadjuvant and adjuvant) apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) vs placebo and ADT with radical prostatectomy in patients with...
Lillian L. Siu, MD, on Liquid KRAS Mutation Screening in Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Lillian L. Siu, MD, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, discusses the clinical utility of liquid biopsy testing for common KRAS variants to facilitate matching patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to appropriate early-phase trials (Abstract 3049).
Veronica Diermayr, PhD, on AI-Driven Prediction of N256-Glycosylated CEACAM5/6 Expression in Gastric and Esophageal Cancer
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...
Evan T. Hall, MD, on Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Tuvusertib With or Without Avelumab
Evan T. Hall, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, discusses findings from the randomized phase II MATRiX trial, which evaluated the efficacy of the ATR inhibitor tuvusertib with or without avelumab in patients with anti–PD-(L)1–refractory Merkel cell carcinoma (Abstract LBA9514).
Jessica J. Lin, MD, on Neladalkib in Advanced ALK-Positive NSCLC
Jessica J. Lin, MD, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, presents data from the ALKOVE-1 study, which is looking at the investigational ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) neladalkib among patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); Dr. Lin discusses the first analyses of phase ...
Sanjay Popat, PhD, FRCP, on RET Fusion-Positive NSCLC: First-Line Pralsetinib
Sanjay Popat, PhD, FRCP, of the Royal Marsden Hospital & Institute of Cancer Research, talks about the findings of the phase III AcceleRET-Lung study, which looked at the oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor pralsetinib as first-line therapy for patients with RET fusion–positive advanced or...
Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, FASCO, on EGFR-Mutant NSCLC: Final Overall Survival Results From Alliance A081105
Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, FASCO, of Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, presents the final overall survival results from the randomized phase III Alliance A081105 trial, which evaluated adjuvant erlotinib vs observation after complete resection of...
Manali Kamdar, MD, on Rapid Oral Abstract Highlights: Three Emerging Trends in Lymphoma Care
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, on Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: More Results From ASCENT-03
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...
Danny Rischin, MD, on Adjuvant Cemiplimab for High-Risk CSCC
Danny Rischin, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, talks about data from the disease-free survival analyses of the C-POST study, which were conducted per high-risk criteria and start time after radiotherapy. C-POST evaluated adjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous...
Lauren Averett Byers, MD, on ABBV-706 in Relapsed or Refractory SCLC
Lauren Averett Byers, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes data on ABBV-706—an investigational antibody-drug conjugate targeting SEZ6—alone or in combination with the anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody budigalimab in patients with relapsed or refractory small cell lung...
Tony S.K. Mok, MD, FRCPC, FASCO, on Advanced ALK-Positive NSCLC: 7-Year Update From the CROWN Trial
Tony S.K. Mok, MD, FRCPC, FASCO, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, presents long-term findings from the CROWN trial, which evaluated lorlatinib vs crizotinib in patients with advanced ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). At 5 years, median progression-free survival was not reached ...
Atish Choudhury, MD, PhD, on Can Patients With an Exceptional Response to ARPIs Interrupt ADT?
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...
Supriya Gupta, MD, on Investigational CAR T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory NHL and CLL
Supriya Gupta, MD, of the University of Minnesota, presents data on azercabtagene zapreleucel, an investigational anti-CD19 allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, in combination with low-dose interleukin-2 in patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and...
Ramez N. Eskander, MD, on Endometrial Cancer: Pembrolizumab Plus Carboplatin/Paclitaxel
Ramez N. Eskander, MD, of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, presents an updated overall survival analysis and examination of subsequent therapy in patients with endometrial cancer treated with pembrolizumab plus carboplatin/paclitaxel as compared to carboplatin/paclitaxel plus placebo in the...
ASCO Collaborates With Ryght AI to Accelerate Site Selection for Metastatic Breast Cancer Trial
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...
First-Line Sunvozertinib in Advanced NSCLC With EGFR Exon 20 Insertion Mutations
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...
Behind the Scenes of the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting
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...
FDA Approves Durvalumab Plus BCG for High-Risk NMIBC
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 Oligometastatic Breast Cancer
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 ...
