Yashasvini Sampathkumar, MD, on Job Retention Intervention for Patients Undergoing Breast Cancer Therapy: Digital vs Print Format
ASCO 2026
Yashasvini Sampathkumar, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents data on Talking to Employers and Medical Staff about Work (TEAMWork), an English/Spanish intervention. The English/Spanish intervention, delivered as a booklet or mobile app, was developed to improve work outcomes among women undergoing breast cancer therapy. Dr. Sampathkumar discusses whether the digital vs print format was preferable among this population (Abstract 11060).
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Richard Cathomas, MD, of Cantonal Hospital Graubünden, reviews results from the primary analysis of SAKK 06/19, an open-label single arm phase II trial, which found that the combination of intravesical recombinant bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) with atezolizumab, cisplatin, and gemcitabine was feasible and safe without unexpected toxicities and demonstrates promising efficacy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) (Abstract 4503).
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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Misty Dawn Shields, MD, PhD, of Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares her perspective on two small cell lung cancer (SCLC) abstracts presented at this year’s meeting. The first focuses on a post hoc analysis of the phase III DeLLphi-304 trial (Abstract 8006), which looked at the intracranial efficacy of tarlatamab in the second line; the second evaluated concurrent thoracic radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and durvalumab in extensive-stage disease (Abstract LBA8005).
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Linda R. Mileshkin, MD, MBBS, FRACP, of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, shares results from the phase I/IIA BLUESTAR study on the safety and efficacy of puxitatug samrotecan, a B7-H4–directed topoisomerase I inhibitor antibody-drug conjugate, in patients with endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer (Abstract 5515).
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Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presents the final analysis of the phase III PROTEUS study, which looked at perioperative (neoadjuvant and adjuvant) apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) vs placebo and ADT with radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk localized or locally advanced prostate cancer (Abstract LBA1).
