Clifford A. Hudis, MD: A Message From ASCO’s CEO
2024 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), talks about the 2024 Annual Meeting, and a focus on the compassionate side of cancer care.
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Welcome, everybody, to the 60th Annual ASCO Meeting. This meeting is an especially meaningful and exciting one for me because this comes on the heels of decades of really powerful advances across all of oncology, including, of course, targeted therapy, small molecules, immunotherapy, and engineered cells, among many other advances that I'd say in the last five to 10 years have truly transformed oncology. But what makes this year's meetings especially exciting, is that we have coupled this with a call for humanism in medicine and a reminder of the privilege of caring for patients and families through this most difficult time. Our president, Dr. Lynn Schuchter, who's been on the leading edge of the most exciting advances in cancer, especially those in melanoma, at the same time is one of the most compassionate, holistic kinds of physicians anyone could hope to see, and she brings that with passion to this meeting. So we're very, very excited by the inclusion of so many new resources and learnings for our community to help them help their patients around the world more effectively than ever before.
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Joshua D. Brody, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses results from the EPCORE NHL-2 study, which was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of epcoritamab-bysp plus rituximab and lenalidomide in the first-line setting for patients with follicular lymphoma and to assess epcoritamab as maintenance therapy in this population (Abstract 7014).
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Jean-Marc Classe, MD, PhD, of France’s Nantes Université, discusses phase III results showing that systematic lymphadenectomy should be omitted in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer with clinically negative lymph nodes, as well as those undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy and interval complete surgery (LBA5505).
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Sherene Loi, MD, PhD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, discusses a circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis from a cohort of patients with early-stage breast cancer who were enrolled in the monarchE trial. This large cohort was studied to look at the usefulness of a personalized tumor-informed assay for ctDNA detection in early stage high-risk patients (LBA507).
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Georgina V. Long, MD, PhD, of the Melanoma Institute Australia and The University of Sydney, discusses final results with up to 10 years’ follow-up data of the COMBI-AD study of patients with stage III BRAF-mutated melanoma who received adjuvant dabrafenib plus trametinib (Abstract 9500).
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Lisa A. Carey, MD, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dejan Juric, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, discuss phase III findings on first-line use of inavolisib or placebo plus palbociclib and fulvestrant in patients with PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who relapsed within 12 months of completing adjuvant endocrine therapy (Abstract 1003).
