Dor Abelman, BS, of the University of Toronto, reviews results of a comparison of two minimally invasive measurable residual disease (MRD) assays—BM-informed cfDNA whole-genome sequencing (cfWGS) and plasma proteomic MRD (EasyM)—in patients with multiple myeloma (Abstract 7546).
Samuel J. Klempner, MD, FASCO, of Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, discusses a single-arm phase II study—which is currently open and enrolling (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT07070466)—evaluating ivonescimab in combination with FOLFOX as front-line therapy in locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic HER2-negative gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (Abstract TPS4246).
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).
Gopa Iyer, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents initial results from the phase I NEXUS-01 study, which evaluated LY4052031, an antibody-drug conjugate targeting Nectin-4, in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (Abstract 4508).
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).
Ramez N. Eskander, MD, of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, presents an updated overall survival analysis and examination of subsequent therapy in patients with endometrial cancer treated with pembrolizumab plus carboplatin/paclitaxel as compared to carboplatin/paclitaxel plus placebo in the NRG-GY018 trial (Abstract 5502).
