Kent Shih, MD, of Tennessee Oncology, shares three patient cases that illustrate how gene-expression profiling (GEP) in patients with melanoma helps shape the decision to proceed to sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and how often and thorough follow-up should be with medical oncology.
Kent Shih, MD, of Tennessee Oncology, presents three patients cases that show how the use of gene-expression profile testing guides patient and practitioner decision-making when choosing the appropriate path of adjuvant treatment among individuals with melanoma.
Neha Vapiwala, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses key themes in prostate cancer data presented at this year’s symposium, including personalization of therapy, treatment sequencing considerations, the role of radiopharmaceuticals, long-term radiotherapy results, using AI and associated ...
Maha H.A. Hussain, MD, FASCO, FACP, of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, reviews results from the BRCAAway trial, which evaluated the efficacy of abiraterone vs olaparib vs the two agents in combination as first-line therapy for patients with metastatic...
Matthew D. Galsky, MD, FASCO, of Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, discusses findings from the randomized phase III KEYNOTE-B15/EV-304 study, which is evaluating neoadjuvant and adjuvant enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab followed by radical cystectomy plus pelvic lymph node dissection vs...
Thomas Powles, MD, PhD, FCRP, of Barts Cancer Centre, Queen Mary University of London, shares findings from the phase II RC48G001 trial of disitamab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate comprising a novel anti-HER2 antibody, disitamab, and an MMAE payload. The agent demonstrated “promising antitumor ...
Amar Kishan, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses results from an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomized trials to quantify the benefit of adding hormone therapy to postoperative radiotherapy in patients with localized prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy...
Enrique Gallardo, MD, of Parc Taulí University Hospital, presents final overall survival results from the EORTC 1333/PEACE-3 trial, which is a phase III trial evaluating the addition of radium-223 to enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and bone...
Anna Clare Wilkins, PhD, MRCP, MBBChir, of The Institute of Cancer Research, discusses the external validation of a digital pathology-based multimodal artificial intelligence (MMAI)-derived prognostic biomarker using data from the phase III CHHiP trial. CHHiP evaluated conventional vs...
Scott Tyldesley, MD, FRCPC, of BC Cancer Vancouver, reports on the 15-year survival analysis from the ASCENDE-RT trial, which randomly assigned patients to receive either prostate brachytherapy or the external-beam radiotherapy boost; both arms also received androgen-deprivation therapy....
Joseph A. Sparano, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the performance of experimental multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models integrating clinical, molecular, and histopathologic features to provide prognostic information for early and late recurrence using primary ...
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, puts findings from several trials in HER2-positive breast cancer into context, including HER2CLIMB, which investigated tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine in pretreated patients with metastatic disease; DESTINY Breast-09, which evaluated fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nki...
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, discusses follow-up data from the DESTINY Breast-05 and DESTINY Breast-11 trials of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nki (T-DXd) for HER2-positive early breast cancer. DESTINY Breast-05 examined the agent given postneoadjuvantly, while DESTINY Breast-11 evaluated the agent in a...
Marcel Verheij, MD, PhD, of Radboud University Medical Center, presents findings from the phase II CRITICS-II trial, which compared three preoperative regimens while omitting adjuvant treatment among patients with nonmetastatic resectable gastric cancer: chemotherapy, chemotherapy followed by...
Stephen Lam Chan, MD, FRCP, MRCP, of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, discusses findings from the phase III KEYNOTE-937 trial, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab vs placebo as adjuvant therapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)...
Matthew Strickland, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, reviews results from the phase IIb TERRIFIC trial, which compared the efficacy and safety of the PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab plus chemoradiotherapy vs chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy alone in the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with...
Dina Ioffe, MD, of Fox Chase Cancer Center, describes the results of an analysis that sought to determine how race/ethnicity, insurance status, and socioeconomic status may affect patterns of systemic treatment for metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Abstract 489).
Daniela Molena, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a comparison of the surgical journeys of patients with resectable gastric/gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma who either received fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel (FLOT) plus durvalumab or FLOT plus placebo in...
Elena Elimova, MD, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, presents findings from the primary analysis of the phase III HERIZON-GEA-01 trial, which evaluated zanidatamab, a dual HER2-targeted bispecific antibody, plus chemotherapy with or without the PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab vs trastuzumab plus...
Elizabeth Smyth, MD, of the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, presents findings from an analysis of the MATTERHORN trial, a phase III study that examined fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel (FLOT) plus durvalumab in patients with resectable...
Samuel J. Klempner, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses results from the phase II ILUSTRO trial, which evaluated the combination of the anti-CLDN18.2 antibody zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 and nivolumab in patients with CLDN18.2-positive; HER2-negative; locally advanced, unresectable, or...
Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, outlines an assessment of baseline characteristics and safety outcomes in HIMALAYA trial participants who were rechallenged with tremelimumab after being treated with the STRIDE regimen (single dose of tremelimumab plus...
Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews the goals of the upcoming phase III ARTEMIDE-HCC01 trial, which will examine the efficacy and safety of rilvegostomig (a novel bispecific anti–PD-1/anti-TIGIT antibody) plus bevacizumab with or without tremelimumab as...
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, Chief, Division of Hematology and Professor of Medicine at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, presents findings from a new study that connects exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange to earlier and more severe...
Nitin Jain, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews findings from a phase II trial of pirtobrutinib, venetoclax, and obinutuzumab for patients with Richter transformation (Abstract 89).
Andrew Portuguese, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, discusses findings from a multicenter analysis from the U.S. Multiple Myeloma Immunotherapy Consortium looking at the real-world safety and efficacy of the BCMA-CD3 bispecific antibody elranatamab (Abstract 136).
Amer Zeidan, MBBS, of Yale School of Medicine, shares results from the phase I/II BEXMAB study, which examined the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of bexmarilimab—a novel macrophage checkpoint inhibitor targeting Clever-1—in combination with the standard of care, azacitidine, in...
Amer Zeidan, MBBS, of Yale School of Medicine, discusses findings from an analysis of the IMerge trial, which explored the possible association between imetelstat-related cytopenias and hemoglobin increase—a measure linked to red blood cell transfusion independence achievement—in patients with...
Nikhil Khushalani, MD, Vice Chair for the Department of Cutaneous Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, reviews advances in the adjuvant and neoadjuvant treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC). He discusses the possibility of de-escalating therapy for patients who respond positively to...
Nikhil Khushalani, MD, Vice Chair for the Department of Cutaneous Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, offers his thoughts on the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC). Dr. Khushalani discusses the three currently approved immunotherapeutic agents ...
Jennifer Woyach, MD, of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, reviews phase I data on rocbrutinib, a new selective next-generation inhibitor of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK), in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and prior exposure to BTK and/or...
Jennifer Woyach, MD, of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses results from the first head-to-head comparison of pirtobrutinib vs ibrutinib in treatment-naive patients and patients with covalent Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor–naive relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic ...
Brian Ball, MD, of City of Hope, presents updated results from the phase I/II BEXMAB study. They showed that the doublet had encouraging activity in patients with TP53-mutant, higher-risk MDS; translational data support the combination regimen’s potential for altering immune dysregulation in this...
Alexander Lesokhin, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses results of a retrospective analysis from the phase II MagnetisMM-3 trial. A post hoc analysis was conducted of the subgroup of patients enrolled in the study who had a prolonged treatment interruption or who permanently...
Karthik Ramasamy, MBBS, FRCP, FRCPath, PhD, of the University of Oxford, discusses initial results of the phase II/III UK-based RADAR trial. The study evaluated isatuximab, bortezomib, lenalidomide, dexamethasone, and cyclophosphamide induction, followed by single autologous stem cell transplant,...
Shahzad Raza, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, presents updated phase II results of the RedirecTT-1 trial, focusing on the efficacy and safety of talquetamab combined with teclistamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and extramedullary disease (Abstract 698). The study also received...
Aaron Gerds, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, reviews results of an evaluation of Synapsis AI, a medically trained, large language model–based end-to-end system, focusing on its accuracy and efficiency in identifying eligible patients for an active phase III polycythemia vera clinical trial (Abstract...
Dory Abelman, PhD(c), HBHSc, of the University of Toronto, discusses findings that support the feasibility of ultradeep cell-free DNA whole-genome sequencing for comprehensive genomic profiling in patients with multiple myeloma, which may be a less invasive alternative to bone marrow biopsy...
Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews data from three abstracts in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) presented at this year’s meeting: outcomes from the phase III VERONA trial of venetoclax with azacitidine vs placebo with azacitidine in patients...
Benjamin Diamond, MD, of the University of Miami, describes findings from the single-center phase II REKINDLE trial, which looked at the combination regimen of iberdomide, carfilzomib, daratumumab, and dexamethasone in patients with early relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (Abstract 251).
Krina Patel, MD, MSc, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, provides updated results from the fully enrolled, ongoing iMMagine-1 phase II registrational trial of anitocabtagene autoleucel, an autologous anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy with a novel D-domain binder. The agent is under...
Amir Fathi, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses data from the phase II PARADIGM trial, which prospectively tested whether azacitidine plus venetoclax was superior to intensive induction chemotherapy in fit patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—and could challenge...
Othman Al-Sawaf, MD, PhD, of the University Hospital of Cologne, presents results from the phase III CLL17 trial, which compared continuous ibrutinib monotherapy to fixed-duration venetoclax plus obinutuzumab to fixed-duration venetoclax plus ibrutinib for previously untreated patients with chronic ...
Anand Patel, MD, of the University of Chicago, discusses results from a phase II trial that showed tyrosine kinase inhibitor plus inotuzumab ozogamicin–based therapy resulted in major molecular response in patients newly diagnosed with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive acute lymphoblastic...
Ibrahim Aldoss, MD, of City of Hope, presents findings from a small, single-center study of patients aged 55 years and older with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in first complete remission who were treated with CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy. Researchers found the therapy was safe,...
The telomerase inhibitor imetelstat was approved for the treatment of certain patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) based on the results of the phase III IMerge trial. Valeria Santini, MD, of the University of Florence, provides updates on secondary endpoints, including overall...
Jayastu Senapati, MBBS, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, presents initial results from a phase II trial of brexucabtagene autoleucel as consolidation therapy in front-line high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) or relapsed/refractory B-ALL after cytoreduction...
Aaron Logan, MD, PhD, of UCSF Health, discusses research examining the effect of transplant before or after treatment with brexucabtagene autoleucel in the real world for adult patients with relapsed or refractory Philadelphia chromosome–negative B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (Abstract...
Jack Khouri, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, describes the findings of a phase II trial which investigated the safety and efficacy of burixafor (GPC-100), a potent and selective small -molecule antagonist of CXCR4, and propranolol with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for the mobilization of...
Domenica Lorusso, MD, PhD, of Humanitas University, discusses results of a preplanned analysis from the ROSELLA trial. In the phase III study, the addition of relacorilant to nab-paclitaxel significantly prolonged progression-free survival and showed a clinically meaningful improvement in overall...