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).
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).
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).
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 (MSI-H/dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer (Abstract 3501).
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 information.
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).
