Christopher A. Barker, MD, on Locally Advanced Unresectable CSCC: RAMPART Trial
ASCO 2026
Christopher A. Barker, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews the results of the RAMPART study, a phase II, multicenter, single-arm clinical trial evaluating response-adapted definitive radiotherapy in combination with cemiplimab-rwlc for locally advanced, unresectable cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) (Abstract 9506).
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Jennifer J. Knox, MD, FRCPC, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, provides expert commentary on a phase III study of daraxonrasib vs chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer (Abstract LBA5).
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Julie R. Brahmer, MD, FASCO, of the Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, provides expert commentary on the overall survival results from the phase III HARMONi-6 trial presented in this year’s Plenary Session. The study compared ivonescimab plus chemotherapy vs tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with advanced squamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Abstract LBA4).
Daneng Li, MD, of City of Hope, discusses dose-finding results from a phase I/II trial of tegavivint, a downstream Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor, in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Abstract 4015).
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Erika P. Hamilton, MD, FASCO, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute, talks about a comparison of the efficacy and safety of tucatinib vs placebo combined with trastuzumab and pertuzumab as maintenance therapy for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer by stratified subgroups (Abstract 1005).
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Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, FASCO, of Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, presents the final overall survival results from the randomized phase III Alliance A081105 trial, which evaluated adjuvant erlotinib vs observation after complete resection of EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Abstract 8001).