Praful Ravi, MBBChir, MRCP, on High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer: Docetaxel With ADT and Radiotherapy
2025 ASCO Annual Meeting
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).
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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 tumor and cell-free DNA levels in adults with glioblastoma (Abstract TPS2094).
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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 cancer (Abstract LBA3510).
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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 lymphoma (CLL/SLL), including in patients with high-risk genomic features. The 5.5-year progression-free survival and overall survival rates were 66% and 97%, respectively (Abstract 7036).
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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 hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (Abstract 5005).
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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 patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer (Abstract 1001).