Siddhartha Yadav, MBBS, MD, on Germline Pathogenic Variants Among Patients With Breast or Ovarian Cancer
ASCO 2026
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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Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, PhD, FASCO, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College at Cornell University, presents efficacy and safety data from the randomized phase III EMERALD-3 trial, which evaluated tremelimumab plus durvalumab with or without lenvatinib combined with transarterial chemoembolization in patients with unresectable embolization-eligible hepatocellular carcinoma (LBA4000).
Michael G. Fradley, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, discusses findings from a study which evaluated impact of atrial fibrillation on cardiovascular outcomes (stroke, bleeding, heart failure) and health-care utilization in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) overall, by age, and by treatment (Abstract 7042).
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Bjorn Henning Gronberg, MD, PhD, of St. Olav’s Hospital, discusses findings from a phase III trial of concurrent thoracic radiotherapy (TRT) plus platinum/etoposide chemotherapy and the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (Abstract LBA8005).
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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).
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Colton Jones, MD, of The University of Texas at San Antonio, talks about the results of a global, multicenter analysis that sought to determine the safety and efficacy of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for the primary prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a pan-etiology high-risk cohort (Abstract 10522).