ESMO 2025
Interviews and expert commentary from ESMO 2025 — study authors and key opinion leaders discuss the findings and their clinical implications.

Charles E Geyer MD; ESMO 2025: Antibody Drug Conjugate T-DXd Brings Longer Cancer-Free Survival for Patients with HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer and Residual Invasive Disease
Charles E Geyer MD, at ESMO 2025, discusses DESTINY-Breast05 results, revealing trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) significantly improves disease-free survival for HER2-positive early breast cancer patients with residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant therapy. T-DXd outperformed trastuzumab emtansin

Li Zhang MD; ESMO 2025: Patients with EGFR-mutated Lung Cancer Progressing After Tyrosine Kinase Therapy Live Longer with Sacituzumab Tirumotecan Therapy
Antibody Drug Conjugate Prolongs Life in NSCLC refractory to EGFR TKI Therapy

Xiuning Le MD PhD; ESMO 2025: Sevabertinib Success for Patients with HER2-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in SOHO-01 Study
A new anti cancer drug sevabertinib, that targets mutated HER2, has proved effective in the SOHO-01 study among patients wiith HER2 mutated non small cell lung cancer. It has now been reported in the

ESMO 2025; Christof Vulsteke MD PhD: Perioperative Enfortumab Vedotin Therapy With Pembrolizumab Boosts Event-Free and Overall Survival in Platinum-Ineligible Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: KEYNOTE-905 study
A big step forwards in the management of muscle invasive bladder cancer in which platinum cannot be used has been taken in the KEYNOTE-905 study of perioperative antibody drug conjugate thereapy with

Xichun Hu MD PhD; ESMO 2025: Antibody Drug Conjugate Trastuzumab Botidotin Outperforms Trastuzumab Emtansine in Patients with HER2-Positive Unresectable or Metastatic Breast Cancer
A Chinese ADC and a western ADC slugged it out at the 2025 ESMO held in Berlin.

Martin Wermke MD; ESMO 2025: Initial Therapy with Bi-Specific T-cell Engager Tarlatamab Promises Better Outcomes in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tarlatamab, a bi-specific T-cell engager drug added to innitial immunochemotherapy brought encouraging initial survival outcomes in the DeLLphi-303 reported at the European Society for Medical Oncolog

John P. Crown MD MBA: ESMO 2025, Berlin: Adjuvant Ribociclib Brought Longer Freedom from Metastases for Patients with HR+/HER2- Early Breast Cancer: NATALEE Five Year Outcomes
John P. Crown MD MBA: ESMO 2025, Berlin: Adjuvant Ribociclib Brought Longer Freedom from Metastases for Patients with HR+/HER2- Early Breast Cancer: NATALEE Five Year Outcomes

Javier C Cortés MD PhD: ESMO 2025, Berlin: Initial Therapy with Sacituzumab Govitecan Improves Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer—ASCENT-03 study
Javier Cortés tells his findings from ASCENT-03 as reported to ESMO 2025 in Berlin with antibody drug conjugate as initial therapy for TNBC in patients testing negative for PD-1/PD-L1