Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, FACP, on Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: More Results From ASCENT-03
ASCO 2026
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).
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Mazyar Shadman, MD, of the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, describes the safety and efficacy results of the all-oral first-line combination regimen of sonrotoclax and zanubrutinib for patients with treatment-naive chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), as well as the doublet’s effect on measurable residual disease (Abstract 7043). He also discusses the phase III BGB-11417-304/CELESTIAL-TNCLL-2 trial; this ongoing study is evaluating sonrotoclax plus zanubrutinib vs venetoclax and acalabrutinib in treatment-naive patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (Abstract TPS7099).
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Manali Kamdar, MD, of the University of Colorado, discusses a rapid oral abstract session that highlighted three trends in the field of lymphomas: improving outcomes in frontline diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, continued development of cellular therapies, and expanding molecular profiling.
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Evan T. Hall, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, discusses findings from the randomized phase II MATRiX trial, which evaluated the efficacy of the ATR inhibitor tuvusertib with or without avelumab in patients with anti–PD-(L)1–refractory Merkel cell carcinoma (Abstract LBA9514).
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Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD, of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Institute of Cancer Research, discusses results from the primary analysis of the persevERA BC trial, which investigated giredestrant plus palbociclib vs letrozole plus palbociclib as first-line therapy in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (Abstract LBA1006).
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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).