Shahzad Raza, MD, on Relapsed or Refractory AL Amyloidosis: First U.S. Trial of CAR T-Cell Therapy
2025 ASCO Annual Meeting
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).
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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 EGFR-mutant advanced NSCLC after disease progression on osimertinib (Abstract 8639).
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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).
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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 with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (Abstract 5004).
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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 nonmetastatic prostate cancer participating in the STAMPEDE trial (Abstract 5001).
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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).