Gerneiva Parkinson, MD, on Time on Systemic Therapy for Patients With HR-Positive Breast Cancer and a Pathogenic Variant
ASCO 2026
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).
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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).
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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Katharina C. Kaehler, MD, of University Hospital (UKSH), Campus Kiel, presents an update on the primary outcome and sensitivity analyses from the PIVOTAL phase III trial of daromun, a combination of two fibronectin-targeting immunocytokines (L19IL2 and L19TNF), as a neoadjuvant intralesional therapy in patients with resectable, locally advanced stage III melanoma (Abstract LBA9517).
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Shilpa Gupta, MD, of Taussig Cancer Institute, discusses findings from the phase III MAIN-CAV study (Alliance A032001) of maintenance cabozantinib and avelumab vs avelumab after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced/metastatic urothelial cancer (Abstract 4514).
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Veronica Diermayr, PhD, of EDDC and A*STAR, discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) driven strategy called H&E 2.0 in gastric and esophageal cancer. Researchers tested the feasibility of training deep-learning models on hematoxylin and eosin images of gastroesophageal carcinomas and their ability to predict EBC-129 antigen expression directly from these images. EBC-129 is an experimental antibody-drug conjugate that targets N256-glycosylated CEACAM5/6, which is highly expressed on solid tumors, including gastroesophageal cancers (Abstract 4018).