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Neoadjuvant treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan showed promising responses in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan demonstrated a 64% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with physician's choice of treatment in patients with advanced HER2-positive unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer who previously received ado-trastuzumab emtansine.

Ian Krop, MD, PhD, discusses findings from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast02 trial in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

The Breast Cancer Index test reliably identified premenopausal women undergoing adjuvant endocrine therapy for early-stage, hormone receptor–positive breast cancer who would derive benefit from the addition of ovarian function suppression.

Non-Hispanic Black patients with hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer were more likely to have worse outcomes vs non-Hispanic White, Asian, and Hispanic patients, according to an analysis of the phase 3 RxPONDER trial.

A clinically meaningful improvement in invasive disease-free survival and distant relapse-free survival was observed with the addition of adjuvant abemaciclib to endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive early breast cancer, according to results of a prespecified overall survival analysis of the monarchE study.

The addition of 1 year of everolimus to adjuvant endocrine therapy did not demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in invasive disease-free survival or overall survival in patients with high-risk, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

The combination of ribociclib plus endocrine therapy yielded a 46% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with chemotherapy in pre/perimenopausal patients with aggressive hormone receptor–positive/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Chemotherapy prior to treatment with endocrine therapy could increase the risk of cancer-related cognitive impairment compared with endocrine therapy alone in women with breast cancer, irrespective of menopausal status.

Tumor microenvironment of metastasis doorway density—a biomarker of distant metastatic recurrence—is higher in Black women vs White women with estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative breast cancer who have residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

The combination of sotigalimab and pembrolizumab showed encouraging antitumor activity and was well tolerated in the frontline setting of patients with metastatic melanoma.

Balazs Halmos, MD, discusses the importance of testing for HER2 mutations and exon 20 insertions, which are emerging new targets in non–small cell lung cancer, and how fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki meets needs for patients with HER2-mutant disease.

Mark G. Kris, MD, discusses the role of immunotherapy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer without driver mutations.

In treating patients with locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer, one must consider multiple factors when deciding whether to treat them with immunotherapy or a targeted approach, even though the optimal treatment sequence has yet to be definitively established.

Osimertinib remains the preferred first-line therapy for patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer. However, for those with classic EGFR mutations, the day is fast approaching when physicians will add chemotherapy to first-line treatment with the EGFR TKI based on ctDNA results.

Investigators are harnessing comprehensive molecular profiling to detect new targets, optimize existing treatment regimens, and develop novel therapies for patients with EGFR and MET exon 20–insertion positive non–small cell lung cancer.

CYNK-101 demonstrated synergistic activity when used in combination with avelumab through antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and bladder cancer cell lines, according to preclinical data.

Alan L. Ho, MD, PhD, discusses targeted therapies such as TKIs that have demonstrated promising efficacy in multiple patient populations as well as the agents lenvatinib and pembrolizumab.

All patients with prostate cancer, except for those with low-risk or very low-risk localized disease, should be tested for germline mutations, and somatic testing should be done in all patients with metastatic disease as there are therapeutic implications.

For patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who experience disease progression on novel hormonal agents (NHAs) and androgen deprivation therapy, it is important to consider when the NHA was received and whether docetaxel has been administered, as these factors affect downstream options and sequencing.

Benjamin Philip Levy, MD, discusses potential future uses for atezolizumab in non–small cell lung cancer.

As the role of genetic testing in clinical practice becomes more prevalent for patients with prostate cancer to identify mutations, physicians must consider a variety of factors to determine which patients are candidates for somatic and/or germline testing.

Because androgen deprivation therapy alone or with docetaxel is not recommended for most patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer, a decision must be made between leveraging couplets vs triplets.

CTX130, an investigational allogeneic, CRISP/Cas9 gene-edited, anti-CD70 CAR T-cell therapy, was found to be safe with early signs of clinical activity in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to findings from the phase 1 COBALT-RCC trial.

David Albala, MD, discusses the key advantages of utilizing PSMA-PET screening in clinical practice for patients with prostate cancer.

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, discusses the different therapeutic agents that are available for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who display either somatic or germline mutations.

Neal Shore, MD, discusses the importance of incorporating genetic testing into treatment strategies for patients with prostate cancer.

David Albala, MD, discusses integrating PSMA-PET imaging into the clinic and determining which patients with prostate cancer are prime candidates.

The first-line combination of pembrolizumab and eftilagimod alpha elicited a 40.4% (95% CI, 31.3%-50.0%) overall response rate by immune RECIST criteria in the intent-to-treat population in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, according to updated findings from the phase 2 TACTI-002 trial.

Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, MD, discusses the use of erdafitinib in urothelial carcinoma.