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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Frank A. Sinicrope, MD, of Mayo Clinic Rochester, reviews findings from the randomized Alliance A021502/ATOMIC trial, which studied standard chemotherapy alone or combined with atezolizumab as adjuvant therapy for patients with stage III DNA mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) colon cancer (LBA1).
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Mazyar Shadman, MD, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the University of Washington, presents results from arm D of the SEQUOIA trial, which evaluated the combination of zanubrutinib and venetoclax in treatment-naive patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (Abstract 7009).
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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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Luis G. Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, H12O-CNIO Lung Cancer Unit, Universidad Complutense and Ciberonc, discusses data from the TIGOS trial, a phase III study comparing the first-line use of atigotatug (an antifucosyl-GM1 monoclonal antibody) plus nivolumab fixed-dose combination with chemotherapy vs atezolizumab with chemotherapy in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract TPS8127).
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Stephen K.L. Chia, MD, FRCPC, of BC Cancer Agency, reviews data from the phase III CCTG/BCT MA.40/FINER trial of fulvestrant and ipatasertib for advanced HER2-negative, ER-positive breast cancer following disease progression on first-line CDK 4/6 and aromatase inhibitors (LBA1005).