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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Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, FASCO, of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, provides an update focusing on progression-free survival after next line of treatment and subsequent therapies among patients enrolled in the ASCENT-04 trial. The study compared sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab vs chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab in patients with previously untreated PD-L1–positive metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract LBA1000).
Daneng Li, MD, of City of Hope, discusses dose-finding results from a phase I/II trial of tegavivint, a downstream Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor, in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Abstract 4015).
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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).
Laura Alder, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, highlights emerging data discussed in the meeting’s oral abstract session on small cell lung cancer, including increased toxicity without efficacy benefit from concurrent chemoradiation and immunotherapy, the intracranial activity of tarlatamab-dlle, and early data for a SEZ6-targeting antibody-drug conjugate.
Gerneiva Parkinson, MD, of Stanford Cancer Institute, discusses time on treatment for systemic therapies among women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer and a pathogenic variant in BRCA1, BRCA2, or PALB2 (Abstract 1096).