Shubham Pant, MD, MBBS, on Novel RAS-Targeting Therapy Daraxonrasib Doubles Overall Survival in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
ASCO 2026
Shubham Pant, MD, MBBS, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the practice-changing results of the phase III RASolute 302 study, which showed that daraxonrasib doubled median overall survival compared with standard chemotherapy in pretreated metastatic pancreatic cancer (Abstract LBA5).
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Danny Rischin, MD, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, talks about data from the disease-free survival analyses of the C-POST study, which were conducted per high-risk criteria and start time after radiotherapy. C-POST evaluated adjuvant cemiplimab-rwlc for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) (Abstract 6083).
Mohammed Al-Jumayli, MD, of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, discusses the effects of the use of a multimodal, digitally supported prehabilitation program among adults aged 65 years and older undergoing surgery for hepatobiliary cancer; the model was associated with favorable short-term functional performance signals and high levels of engagement (Abstract 12039).
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Alicia K. Morgans, MD, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses data from the phase II ARACOG (AFT-47) randomized clinical trial, which compared the two androgen receptor pathway inhibitors’ effects on cognitive function in patients with advanced prostate cancer (Abstract 5005).
Dai Chihara, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reviews results from an open-label, single-arm, phase II trial that investigated the combination of epcoritamab with R-miniCVP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone) in patients with newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) classified as unfit or frail per geriatric assessment or not eligible for anthracycline chemotherapy due to reduced ejection function or prior exposure (Abstract 7002).
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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).