Lauren Averett Byers, MD, on ABBV-706 in Relapsed or Refractory SCLC
ASCO 2026
Lauren Averett Byers, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes data on ABBV-706—an investigational antibody-drug conjugate targeting SEZ6—alone or in combination with the anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody budigalimab in patients with relapsed or refractory small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract 8008).
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Mali Barbi, MD, MS, of Northwell Health Cancer Institute Center for Women's Cancer, discusses durable survival benefits shown in the NRG-GY018 trial with pembrolizumab and the RUBY trial with dostarlimab for patients with mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) endometrial cancer. In addition, B7-H4 antibody-drug conjugates such as puxitatug samrotecan are emerging as options for relapsed/metastatic disease.
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Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Institute of Cancer Research, discusses results from the primary analysis of the persevERA BC trial, which investigated giredestrant plus palbociclib vs letrozole plus palbociclib as first-line therapy in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (Abstract LBA1006).
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Siddhartha Yadav, MBBS, MD, of Mayo Clinic Rochester, talks about a real-world evaluation of germline pathogenic variants in cancer predisposition genes in unselected South Asian women with breast or ovarian cancer (Abstract 10513).
Antonio Llombart-Cussac, MD, PhD, of Medica Scientia Innovation Research (MEDSIR), discusses the ongoing ADELA study, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized phase III trial of elacestrant plus everolimus vs elacestrant plus placebo in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive HER2-negative advanced breast cancer with ESR1-mutated tumors who experienced disease progression on endocrine therapy plus CDK4/6 inhibition (Abstract TPS1154).
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT06382948
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Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, FACP, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, provides an update focusing on progression-free survival after next line of treatment and subsequent therapies among patients enrolled in the ASCENT-03 trial. The study compared sacituzumab govitecan vs chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract 1001).