Sanjay Popat, PhD, FRCP, on RET Fusion-Positive NSCLC: First-Line Pralsetinib
ASCO 2026
Sanjay Popat, PhD, FRCP, of the Royal Marsden Hospital & Institute of Cancer Research, talks about the findings of the phase III AcceleRET-Lung study, which looked at the oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor pralsetinib as first-line therapy for patients with RET fusion–positive advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Abstract 8504).
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Siddhartha Yadav, MBBS, MD, of Mayo Clinic Rochester, talks about a real-world evaluation of germline pathogenic variants in cancer predisposition genes in unselected South Asian women with breast or ovarian cancer (Abstract 10513).
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Lauren Averett Byers, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes data on ABBV-706—an investigational antibody-drug conjugate targeting SEZ6—alone or in combination with the anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody budigalimab in patients with relapsed or refractory small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract 8008).
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Brendan Heiden, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine, discusses data from a unique real-world cohort of nearly 1 million patients in the Veterans Health Administration; researchers evaluated whether tobacco smoking duration improves lung cancer risk prediction compared with tobacco pack-years (Abstract 8004).
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Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, describe results from the phase III RASolute 302 trial, which evaluated the RAS(ON) muliselective inhibitor daraxonrasib in previously treated patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma (Abstract LBA5).
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Marlana M. Orloff, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, reviews primary results from the OptimUM-02 trial, which investigated the doublet of darovasertib plus crizotinib vs investgator’s choice for first-line therapy among patients with HLA-A2–negative metastatic uveal melanoma (Abstract LBA9503).