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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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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Andrew Kuykendall, MD, of Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses findings from the phase III VERIFY trial, which compared the efficacy of rusfertide vs placebo in patients with polycythemia vera who continue their current standard of care therapy (Abstract LBA3).
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Elena Elez, MD, PhD, of Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, presents updated overall survival data as well as progression-free survival data from the BREAKWATER trial of the first-line use of encorafenib, cetuximab, and mFOLFOX6 in BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (LBA3500).
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Bjorn Henning Gronberg, MD, PhD, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and St. Olavs Hospital, presents phase II findings on the efficacy of atezolizumab after chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (LBA8005).
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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).