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Luciano Costa, MD PhD; ASH 2025: CAR T Cell Brings Profound Benefit with Long-Term Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Standard-Risk Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Dr. Luciano Costa discusses the findings from the CARTITUDE-4 study at the ASH 2025 Annual Meeting in Orlando. The study demonstrates that ciltacabtagene autoleucel CAR-T cell therapy provides significant long-term progression-free survival for patients with standard-risk relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, even as early as second-line treatment. The findings suggest profound benefits in this patient population.

Matteo Lambertini MD PhD; San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: ALTTO Trial Shows Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitors Outperform Tamoxifen in Patients with ER-Positive, HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer
Matteo Lambertini MD PhD discusses new findings from the ALTTO trial at the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The long-term analysis reveals that adjuvant aromatase inhibitors lead to superior outcomes, including improved disease-free survival and time to distant recurrence, compared to tamoxifen or other SERMs.

Jesse Tettero MD PhD; ASH 2025: Measurable Residual Disease Can Predict Overall Survival in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Dr. Jesse Tettero discusses findings from the HARMONY Alliance study, presented at ASH 2025, validating measurable residual disease (MRD) as a robust predictor of overall survival in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. The study supports MRD's potential as a regulatory surrogate endpoint, particularly MFC-MRD in non-transplanted patients, to accelerate drug development. This large pooled analysis provides critical evidence for future AML drug approvals.

Hisham Abdel-Azim MD MS; ASH 2025: Next Generation Sequencing-Assessed Minimum Residual Disease Identifies Young Patients with High-risk/Relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphomas Who Can Omit Pre-Transplant Total Body Irradiation
Dr. Hisham Abdel-Azim discusses findings from the phase two EndRAD trial, presented at ASH 2025. The study reveals that Next Generation Sequencing-Assessed Minimum Residual Disease (NGS-MRD) can identify young patients with high-risk/relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphomas (B-ALL) who can safely omit pre-transplant Total Body Irradiation (TBI). This approach achieved comparable survival outcomes while potentially reducing TBI-associated late effects.

Aditya Bardia MD MPH; 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: Selective Estrogen Degrader Giredestrant Improves on Standard Endocrine Therapy for Patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative Early Breast Cancer: Phase III lidERA Breast Cancer trial Findings
A seective estrogen degrader out-performed AI’s in ER+ HER- early breast cancer

Daniel J Zheng MD, MHS, MSHP; ASH 2025 Orlando: Childhood Leukemia Cured But Families Broke! “Financial Toxicity” is Often More Worrying than your Child’s Cancer
Financial Disaster from curative treatment for childhood ALL

Peihua Lu MD and Robert Chiesa MD PhD; ASH 2025, Orlando: Dramatic Remissions with “Off-the-Shelf” and “Base Edited” CAR T-cell Therapies in Children with Relapsed/Refractory T-Cell Malignancies
Dramatic Cures for Children with No Prospects Using Standard Therapies for T-cell malignancies

Jeanne Tie MD, ESMO Berlin: Liquid Biopsy Brings Chemo-free Option for Patients with Stage Three Colon Cancer
Some patients being treated for stage three colon cancer could avoid the use of chemotherapy and be spared toxicities such as neuropathy: according to a study in which ctDNA liquid biopsy monitoring f

Paul H Cottu MD PhD, ESMO Berlin: Chemo-Free Regimen with Neoadjuvant CDK 4/6 Inhibition plus Endocrine Therapy Benefits Patients with High-Risk ER+ HER2- Early Breast Cancer
Aan identifyable subset of patients with high-risk ER+ HER2- early breast cancer better off without chemotherapy

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

Erwei Song MD PhD, ESMO Berlin: Antibody Drug Conjugate Trastuzumab Resetecan Brings Early Significant Progression Free Survival Benefit in Patients with Previously Treated HER2+ Advanced Breast Cancer
ADC beats SOC in previously treated Advanced Breast Cancer

Andrew Clamp MD, PhD, ESMO Berlin: Weekly Dose-Dose Chemotherapy Brings Big Survival Benefit for Patients with High-Risk Ovarian Cancer
An interview with: Andrew Clamp MD, PhD, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK BERLIN, Germany—An important therapeutic gain in terms of overall- and progression-free surviv

Nima Nabavizadeh MD; ESMO Berlin: Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test: PATHFINDER II study Finds Early Promise
multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test

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

Trevor Leong MD: Operable Gastric or GE-Junction Adenocarcinoma: No Advantage from Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy
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