Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, FASCO, on EGFR-Mutant NSCLC: Final Overall Survival Results From Alliance A081105
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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).
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Linda R. Mileshkin, MD, MBBS, FRACP, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, shares results from the phase I/IIA BLUESTAR study on the safety and efficacy of puxitatug samrotecan, a B7-H4–directed topoisomerase I inhibitor antibody-drug conjugate, in patients with endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer (Abstract 5515).
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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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).
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Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, FACP, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, provides an update focusing on progression-free survival after next line of treatment and subsequent therapies among patients enrolled in the ASCENT-03 trial. The study compared sacituzumab govitecan vs chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract 1001).
Daniel A. Ermann, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, presents findings from a retrospective cohort study which used a large U.S. database to evaluate clinical outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries treated with first-line therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (Abstract 7047).
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