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).
Manali Kamdar, MD, of the University of Colorado, discusses a rapid oral abstract session that highlighted three trends in the field of lymphomas: improving outcomes in frontline diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, continued development of cellular therapies, and expanding molecular profiling.
Mohammed Al-Jumayli, MD, of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, discusses the effects of the use of a multimodal, digitally supported prehabilitation program among adults aged 65 years and older undergoing surgery for hepatobiliary cancer; the model was associated with favorable short-term functional performance signals and high levels of engagement (Abstract 12039).
Jana de Boniface, MD, PhD, of Capio Saint Göran's Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, reviews overall survival and patient-reported arm morbidity findings from the SENOMAC trial, which sought to determine if patients with breast cancer and sentinel lymph node macrometastases could omit complete axillary dissection (Abstract LBA503).
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).
Brendan Heiden, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine, discusses data from a unique real-world cohort of nearly 1 million patients in the Veterans Health Administration; researchers evaluated whether tobacco smoking duration improves lung cancer risk prediction compared with tobacco pack-years (Abstract 8004).
