Marlana M. Orloff, MD, on Metastatic Uveal Melanoma: First-Line Therapy for HLA-A2–Negative Disease
ASCO 2026
Marlana M. Orloff, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, reviews primary results from the OptimUM-02 trial, which investigated the doublet of darovasertib plus crizotinib vs investgator’s choice for first-line therapy among patients with HLA-A2–negative metastatic uveal melanoma (Abstract LBA9503).
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John V. Heymach, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses results from the primary analysis of the multinational phase III WU-KONG28 trial, which looked at sunvozertinib monotherapy vs platinum-based therapy as first-line treatment for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and EGFR exon 20 insertions (Abstract LBA8500).
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Shilpa Gupta, MD, of Taussig Cancer Institute, discusses findings from the phase III MAIN-CAV study (Alliance A032001) of maintenance cabozantinib and avelumab vs avelumab after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced/metastatic urothelial cancer (Abstract 4514).
Walter Weber, MD, of University Hospital Basel, presents data from the international randomized phase III PREPEC trial (OPBC-02), which found prepectoral implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) significantly and relevantly improved long-term quality of life—at the cost of a higher risk of loss or replacement of expander or implant—compared to subpectoral IBBR (Abstract 504).
Suneel Kamath, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, discusses a study that found tissue tumor mutation burden (TMB) was a stronger predictor of immunotherapy outcomes than blood-based circulating tumor DNA testing, with high tissue TMB associated with a longer time to treatment failure (Abstract 2580).
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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).