Asaf Maoz, MD, on Pancreatic Cancer Screening: Potential Blood-Based Biomarkers
ASCO 2026
Asaf Maoz, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School, talks about whether prospective assessment of CA 19-9 has utility as part of pancreatic cancer surveillance among high-risk individuals (Abstract 10527).
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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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Bjorn Henning Gronberg, MD, PhD, of St. Olav’s Hospital, discusses findings from a phase III trial of concurrent thoracic radiotherapy (TRT) plus platinum/etoposide chemotherapy and the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract LBA8005).
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Jonathan W. Goldman, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents event-free survival data from the primary analysis of the phase III LIBRETTO-432 trial, which investigated the efficacy of the kinase inhibitor selpercatinib in patients with stage IB–IIIA RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Abstract LBA3).
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Elena Elimova, MD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, discusses the efficacy in PD-L1 subgroups of zanidatamab plus chemotherapy with or without tislelizumab as a first-line regimen for HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (Abstract 4010).
Michael G. Fradley, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, discusses findings from a study which evaluated impact of atrial fibrillation on cardiovascular outcomes (stroke, bleeding, heart failure) and health-care utilization in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) overall, by age, and by treatment (Abstract 7042).