Hannah L. Kenny, MD, and Joseph M. Curry, MD, on BCC of the Head and Neck: Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab
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Hannah L. Kenny, MD, and Joseph M. Curry, MD, both of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, discuss results of a phase II trial of neoadjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc in patients with hedgehog inhibitor–naive basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the head and neck (Abstract 9515).
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Mark A. Dickson, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents findings from SARC041, a phase III randomized double-blind study of abemaciclib vs placebo in patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma; patients who received abemaciclib experienced a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (Abstract LBA2).
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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).
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Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, of Queen Mary University of London, shares more data from the phase III lidERA BC clinical trial. This analysis focused on the efficacy and safety of giredestrant in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer, looking at both premenopausal and postmenopausal populations (Abstract 502).
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Danny Rischin, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, talks about data from the disease-free survival analyses of the C-POST study, which were conducted per high-risk criteria and start time after radiotherapy. C-POST evaluated adjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) (Abstract 6083).
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Tony S.K. Mok, MD, FRCPC, FASCO, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, presents long-term findings from the CROWN trial, which evaluated lorlatinib vs crizotinib in patients with advanced ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). At 5 years, median progression-free survival was not reached with lorlatinib in this population, representing the longest progression-free survival ever reported in advanced NSCLC (Abstract 8502).