Suneel Deepak Kamath, MD, on Disparities in NIH and Federal Funding Across Different Cancer Types
2025 ASCO Annual Meeting
Suneel Deepak Kamath, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, reports findings from a study that evaluated funding from the NIH and Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs supporting lung, breast, colorectal, pancreatic, hepatobiliary, ovarian, cervical, endometrial, and prostate cancers, as well as leukemia, lymphoma, and melanoma, from 2013 to 2022 (Abstract 11025).
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Mafalda Oliveira, MD, PhD, of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, discusses findings on the incidence and management of hyperglycemia in a subset of patients with prediabetes and/or obesity included in the phase I trial of inavolisib alone and in combination with endocrine therapy with or without palbociclib for PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer (Abstract 1004).
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David R. Spigel, MD, FASCO, Chief Scientific Officer of Sarah Cannon Research Institute, reviews data on the role of a 14-gene molecular assay in selecting patients with stage IA–IIA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as high risk (LBA8027).
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Asaf Maoz, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School, discusses the sensitivity of age and family history criteria for determining eligibility for pancreatic cancer surveillance among individuals with a hereditary risk for the malignancy (Abstract 10500).
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David Allen Barbie, MD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reviews specific clinical and molecular features of early progressors and long-term progression-free survivors from the phase III ADRIATIC trial, which assessed consolidation durvalumab vs placebo after concurrent chemoradiotherapy for limited-stage small cell lung cancer (Abstract 8014).
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Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, of Mayo Clinic Florida, offers his thoughts on findings from the primary analysis of the phase III DeLLphi-304 trial, which compared tarlatamab-dlle, a bispecific T-cell engager immunotherapy targeting delta-like ligand 3 and CD3, with chemotherapy as a second-line treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (LBA8008).
