Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, on ER-Positive HER2-Negative Early Breast Cancer: Giredestrant by Menopausal Status
ASCO 2026
Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, FRCP, of Queen Mary University of London, shares more data from the phase III lidERA BC clinical trial. This analysis focused on the efficacy and safety of giredestrant in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer, looking at both premenopausal and postmenopausal populations (Abstract 502).
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Robert C. Stein, PhD, MBBChir, FRCP, of the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, discusses the first results from the phase III randomized OPTIMA trial, which is comparing chemotherapy decisions made with the Prosigna (PAM50) gene expression test with standard treatment with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer (Abstract 500).
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Noelle Cloven, MD, of Texas Oncology, discusses the actively recruiting RAINFOL-03 (ENGOT-EN-31/GOG-3128) study, a global, phase III, open-label, randomized study of rinatabart sesutecan vs investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with endometrial cancer after receipt of platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-L1 inhibition (Abstract TPS5646).
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Danny Rischin, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, talks about data from the disease-free survival analyses of the C-POST study, which were conducted per high-risk criteria and start time after radiotherapy. C-POST evaluated adjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) (Abstract 6083).
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Shailender Bhatia, MD, of the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, presents data from the phase III ADAM trial, a multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study of the anti–PD-L1 antibody avelumab in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma and lymph node metastases (Abstract LBA9504).
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Lillian L. Siu, MD, of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, discusses the clinical utility of liquid biopsy testing for common KRAS variants to facilitate matching patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to appropriate early-phase trials (Abstract 3049).
