Latest Conference Articles

Bruce Haffty, MD, MS, discusses the feasibility of utilizing preoperative radiation boost in patients with breast cancer based on initial results from a phase 2 trial.

Administration of stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy to oligoprogressive lesions delayed a change in systemic therapy in patients with estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer enrolled to the prospective phase 2 AVATAR trial.

Treatment with reduced-dose or partial-breast radiotherapy sustained long-term safety and elicited similar rates of ipsilateral breast tumor relapse compared with whole-breast radiotherapy in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Asal Rahimi, MD, MS, discusses initial efficacy results from the expanded cohort of a phase 1 dose-escalation study (NCT04040569) evaluating pre-operative, single fraction stereotactic ablative radiation in early-stage, hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.

Melissa O'Neil, MRT(T), discusses findings from the randomized phase 2 Diagnostic CT-Enabled Radiation Therapy trial of palliative radiation therapy.

Ablative preoperative stereotactic partial breast irradiation plus endocrine therapy was safe at a single fraction of 34 Gy and generated pathological complete responses and near complete responses in patients with early-stage, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

Daily adaptive radiotherapy with 1-mm planning target volume margins is feasible in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and was associated with improved dosimetric parameters compared with standard radiotherapy.

The use of diagnostic CT-based planning lowered the median time in treatment centers for patients with cancer who underwent diagnostic CT scan and palliative radiation therapy.

Julia S. Wong, MD, discusses findings from data presented on patient-reported toxicity results from the randomized trial of fractionation following breast reconstruction in patients with breast cancer.

Immunotherapy has become a valuable tool for the treatment of patients with various types of lymphomas because of its ability to specifically target cancer cells, particularly those in blood cancers.

Matthew Pierre Deek, MD, discusses the significance of pretreatment immune cell infiltration in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who had been treated with definitive chemoradiation.

Patients with breast cancer who received hypofractionated postmastectomy radiotherapy experienced similar toxicities vs those who received conventionally fractionated postmastectomy radiotherapy, according to a presentation shared at the 2023 American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

Bradford (Brad) S. Hoppe, MD, MPH, discusses the rationale for investigating consolidative radiotherapy in place of autologous stem cell transplant in patients with low-risk, relapsed/refractory classic Hodgkin lymphoma who have been previously treated with nivolumab plus brentuximab vedotin, as investigated in the phase 2 CheckMate 744 study, as well as key findings from this trial.

Michael Chuong, MD, FACRO, discusses patterns of locoregional recurrence following guided radiation therapy in pancreatic cancer.

Jiye Liu, PhD, discusses epigenetic regulation of CD38/CD48 in multiple myeloma.

Leo Rasche, MD, discusses BCMA and GPRC5D loss after bispecific antibody therapy in multiple myeloma.

The addition of venetoclax to carfilzomib and dexamethasone increased response rates compared with carfilzomib plus dexamethasone alone in patients with t(11:14)-positive relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The novel anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy NXC-201 displayed safety and elicited hematologic and organ responses in patients with relapsed/refractory amyloid light chain amyloidosis, including frail patients.

The EZH2 inhibitor tazemetostat may mimic the role of the KDM6A gene in upregulating CD38 and CD48 expression, suggesting that this agent could restore responses to daratumamab in patients with multiple myeloma, according to a presentation at the 20th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting.

The combination of iberdomide plus bortezomib and dexamethasone produced deep responses with a manageable toxicity profile in patients with transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, according to data from the phase 1/2 CC-220-MM-001 trial presented at the 2023 International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting.

Treatment with teclistamab led to responses in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, including those previously exposed to anti-BCMA therapies.

Forimtamig monotherapy generated high overall response rates and durable responses in all subgroups of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma enrolled in a phase 1a dose-escalation trial.

Although quadruplet combination regimens featuring daratumumab demonstrated consistent efficacy in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, certain prognostic factors were associated with early relapse, according to data from a retrospective analysis presented at the 2023 International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting.

Treatment with teclistamab-cqyv in real-world patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma elicited similar efficacy results and a comparable safety profile to findings from the phase 1/2 Majes-TEC-1 trial.

Induction daratumumab, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone followed by consolidation double transplant sustained efficacy and safety in patients with high-risk, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Joshua Richter, MD, discusses findings from the phase 1/2 LINKER-MM1 trial (NCT03761108) in multiple myeloma.

Shonali Midha, MD, discusses real-world data with teclistamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Whole-genome sequencing of patients with multiple myeloma revealed that sequential immunotherapy was linked with antigen loss associated with treatment resistance and disease relapse.

Treatment with the combination of pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone conferred a small, statistically nonsignificant overall survival benefit compared with bortezomib plus dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Mezigdomide in combination with either bortezomib and dexamethasone or carfilzomib and dexamethasone showed encouraging responses across multiple dose levels in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.