Alicia K. Morgans, MD, FASCO, on Cognitive Effects of Darolutamide vs Enzalutamide
ASCO 2026
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses data from the phase II ARACOG (AFT-47) randomized clinical trial, which compared the two androgen receptor pathway inhibitors’ effects on cognitive function in patients with advanced prostate cancer (Abstract 5005).
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Ramez N. Eskander, MD, of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, presents an updated overall survival analysis and examination of subsequent therapy in patients with endometrial cancer treated with pembrolizumab plus carboplatin/paclitaxel as compared to carboplatin/paclitaxel plus placebo in the NRG-GY018 trial (Abstract 5502).
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Veronica Diermayr, PhD, of EDCC and A*STAR, discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) driven strategy called H&E 2.0 in gastric and esophageal cancer. Researchers tested the feasibility of training deep-learning models on hematoxylin and eosin images of gastroesophageal carcinomas and their ability to predict EBC-129 antigen expression directly from these images. EBC-129 is an experimental antibody-drug conjugate that targets N256-glycosylated CEACAM5/6, which is highly expressed on solid tumors, including gastroesophageal cancers (Abstract 4018).
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Atish Choudhury, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, talks about findings from the phase II A-DREAM/Alliance A032101 trial, which explored the possibility of androgen-deprivation (ADT) interruption in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who had an exceptional response to androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) (Abstract 5004).
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Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, FASCO, of the University of Kansas Medical Center, presents health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data from the AMBASSADOR trial, which showed that in patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma after radical surgery, adjuvant pembrolizumab for 1 year approximately doubled disease-free survival, causes fatigue and dyspnea which modestly impacted physical function and ability to perform certain roles (such as work and hobbies), without impact on overall quality of life (Abstract 4513).
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Marlana M. Orloff, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, reviews primary results from the OptimUM-02 trial, which investigated the doublet of darovasertib plus crizotinib vs investgator’s choice for first-line therapy among patients with HLA-A2–negative metastatic uveal melanoma (Abstract LBA9503).