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 ropeginterferon alfa-2b vs anagrelide for the treatment of essential thrombocythemia (Abstract 6500). ...
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 inhibitors for advanced cancer (Abstract 10504).
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 evaluated trastuzumab deruxtecan after endocrine therapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer...
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 cancer–specific mortality in younger women diagnosed with high-risk disease (Abstract 10506); and do...
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 stereotactic body radiotherapy for PSMA-PET–detected oligometastatic prostate adenocarcinoma (Abstract...
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-risk localized prostate cancer (Abstract 5013).
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, colorectal, pancreatic, hepatobiliary, ovarian, cervical, endometrial, and prostate cancers, as well...
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 the first-line use of atigotatug (an antifucosyl-GM1 monoclonal antibody) plus nivolumab fixed-dose...
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 evaluated lurbinectedin plus atezolizumab as first-line maintenance treatment in patients with...
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 presented on front-line therapies for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presented at the 2025 ASCO Annual ...
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 patients with relapsed or refractory light chain (AL) amyloidosis (Abstract 7508).
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 chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung...
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 (CRT) in limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (LBA8005).
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 benefit from second-generation androgen receptor pathway inhibitors in patients with high-risk...
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 darolutamide in combination with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) vs ADT plus placebo for patients...
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 engager immunotherapy targeting delta-like ligand 3 and CD3, with chemotherapy as a second-line...
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 screening for individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (Abstract 10501).
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 screening for individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (Abstract 10501).
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 cancer surveillance among individuals with a hereditary risk for the malignancy (Abstract 10500).
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-positive after surgery had significantly worse disease-free survival compared to MRD-negative...
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 engager immunotherapy targeting delta-like ligand 3 and CD3, with chemotherapy as a second-line...
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 adjuvant therapy for patients with stage III DNA mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) colon cancer (LBA1).
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 (Abstract 10503).
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 following disease progression on first-line CDK 4/6 and aromatase inhibitors (LBA1005).
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 lung cancer (NSCLC) as high risk (LBA8027).
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 predisposition in patients with metastatic cancers (Abstract 10502).
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 telemedicine clinical trial of pemigatinib in patients with advanced or metastatic FGFR-mutated pancreatic...
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 transcranial MR-guided microbubble-enhanced transcranial focused ultrasound for increasing blood circulating...
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 breast cancer in the Black community. Sisters Network is focused on raising awareness of early...
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 encorafenib, cetuximab, and mFOLFOX6 in BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (LBA3500).
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-hziy plus pembrolizumab vs chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab in previously untreated patients with...
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 Institute, presents data from a retrospective analysis that sought to determine the frequency and...
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 with prediabetes and/or obesity included in the phase I trial of inavolisib alone and in combination...
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 survivors from the phase III ADRIATIC trial, which assessed consolidation durvalumab vs placebo...
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, which investigated enzalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy in patients with metastatic...
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, published clinical practice guidelines, offering clinicians ready access to timely, trustworthy...
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 chemotherapy or nivolumab monotherapy for microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair–deficient...
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 venetoclax in treatment-naive patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma...
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, leucovorin, oxaliplatin and docetaxel chemotherapy) in patients with resectable gastric or...
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 of the bispecific antibody amivantamab-vmjw plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy in patients with...
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 CDK4/6 inhibitor to treat emergent ESR1 mutations during first-line endocrine therapy for patients with...
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 to radiochemotherapy for patients with resected head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who are at...
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 continue their current standard of care therapy (Abstract LBA3).
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 exercise program on disease-free survival in patients with stage III or high-risk stage II colon...
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 chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (Abstract 7011).
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-mutated, HR-positive, HER2-negative, endocrine-resistant advanced breast cancer (Abstract 1003).
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 imlunestrant, investigator’s choice of standard endocrine therapy, or imlunestrant plus abemaciclib in ...
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 leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). In Abstract 7037, liso-cel with ibrutinib demonstrated...
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 plus venetoclax for previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic ...
This is Part 3 of Navigating the Complexities of Relapsed/Refractory AML: Identifying Mutations and Optimizing Targeted Therapy, a three-part video roundtable series. Scroll down to watch the other videos from this roundtable. In this video, Drs. Uma Borate, Naval Daver, and Joshua Zeidner...