Veronica Diermayr, PhD, on AI-Driven Prediction of N256-Glycosylated CEACAM5/6 Expression in Gastric and Esophageal Cancer
ASCO 2026
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).
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Jessica J. Lin, MD, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, presents data from the ALKOVE-1 study, which is looking at the investigational ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) neladalkib among patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); Dr. Lin discusses the first analyses of phase II TKI-pretreated patients and preliminary data in TKI-naive patients (Abstract 8503).
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Noelle Cloven, MD, of Texas Oncology, discusses the actively recruiting RAINFOL-03 (ENGOT-EN-31/GOG-3128) study, a global, phase III, open-label, randomized study of rinatabart sesutecan vs investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with endometrial cancer after receipt of platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-L1 inhibition (Abstract TPS5646).
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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).
Lucy Gilbert, MD, of McGill University Health Centre, discusses subgroup analyses from the ROSELLA study. Relacorilant plus nab-paclitaxel demonstrated a statistically and clinically significant overall survival benefit in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer compared to a weekly taxane; subgroup analyses for overall survival showed a consistent benefit favoring the addition of relacorilant to nab-paclitaxel irrespective of prior taxane use (Abstract 5503).
Jennifer A. Woyach, MD, of The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University, discusses the ongoing, actively recruiting ROCKET-CLL trial, which is a phase III study aiming to compare the efficacy of rocbrutinib vs pirtobrutinib in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who have been pretreated with Bruton tyrosine kinase covalent inhibitors (Abstract TPS7100).
For more information about the trial, visit ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier NCT07342478).
