Dor Abelman, BS, on Multiple Myeloma: cfDNA WGS vs Plasma Proteomics for Minimally Invasive MRD Assessment
ASCO 2026
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).
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Tony S.K. Mok, MD, FRCPC, FASCO, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, presents long-term findings from the CROWN trial, which evaluated lorlatinib vs crizotinib in patients with advanced ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). At 5 years, median progression-free survival was not reached with lorlatinib in this population, representing the longest progression-free survival ever reported in advanced NSCLC (Abstract 8502).
Rami Manochakian, MD, FASCO, of Mayo Clinic Florida, summarizes an educational session at ASCO that reviewed the state of the field of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) treatment. After decades of limited treatment progress, advances are being seen in immunotherapies, radiation therapy, bispecific T-cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates, and radionuclide therapies.
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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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Colton Jones, MD, of The University of Texas at San Antonio, talks about the results of a global, multicenter analysis that sought to determine the safety and efficacy of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for the primary prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a pan-etiology high-risk cohort (Abstract 10522).
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Xin Gao, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses initial results from the phase I EXCEED trial of LY4101174, a Nectin-4–targeting antibody-drug conjugate, for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (Abstract 4517).