William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, on Pirtobrutinib in Treatment-Naive Patients With CLL/SLL
ASCO 2026
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, presents pooled results from the BRUIN CLL-313 and BRUIN CLL-314 trials. BRUIN CLL-313 is comparing pirtobrutinib to bendamustine plus rituximab in treatment-naive patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL); BRUIN CLL-314 is comparing pirtobrutinib to ibrutinib in the same patient population (Abstract 7044).
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Giannis S. Mountzios, MD, of Henry Dunant Hospital Center, discusses findings from a post hoc analysis of the phase III DeLLphi-304 trial, which examined the intracranial efficacy of tarlatamab vs chemotherapy as second-line therapy for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract 8006).
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Elena Elimova, MD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, discusses the efficacy in PD-L1 subgroups of zanidatamab plus chemotherapy with or without tislelizumab as a first-line regimen for HER2-positive locally advanced or metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (Abstract 4010).
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John M. Burke, MD, of SCRI at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers I The US Oncology Network, presents findings from the phase III frontMIND trial, which evaluated tafasitamab plus lenalidomide and R-CHOP in patients newly diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Abstract LBA7000).
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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).
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).
