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Courtney DiNardo, MD, MSCE; Eunice Wang, MD; and Jessica Altman, MD, discuss how they turned career obstacles into opportunities and what they have learned from being women in the leukemia field.

Courtney DiNardo, MD, MSCE; Eunice Wang, MD; and Jessica Altman, MD, discuss the importance of strong mentorship relationships and the unique growth opportunities they found at different points of their careers.

Courtney DiNardo, MD, MSCE; Eunice Wang, MD; and Jessica Altman, MD, discuss the toughest challenges they faced in the leukemia field at the start of their fellowships and careers.

Carefully selected patients with triple-negative or HER2-positive breast cancer who demonstrated pathologic complete responses to neoadjuvant systemic therapy as predicted by image-guided vacuum-assisted core biopsy avoided breast surgery and went on to standard radiotherapy.

A regimen comprised of radiation and intermittent hormone therapy (HT) resulted in an improvement in progression-free survival in patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer, according to data from the phase 2 EXTEND trial.

Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD, FACP, discusses patient-reported outcomes with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) in hormone receptor (HR)–positive/HER2-low metastatic breast cancer.

Neil D. Gross, MD, FACS, discusses the current deficits in the treatment of patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in the curative setting and avenues for continued research generated by the primary analysis of the phase 2 trial examining neoadjuvant cemiplimab in this population.

Immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations containing BRAF and MEK inhibitors have carved out roles in different settings of melanoma, which has given clinicians different options for treatment sequencing.

Drs DiNardo, Wang, and Altman discuss the challenges they faced in their early careers, the rollout of molecular profiling and targeted therapy in the early 2000s, and their growth from protégés to mentors.

Neil D. Gross, MD, FACS, discusses the investigation of cemiplimab in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Dr Subbiah discusses the significance of the FDA approval of selpercatinib in RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer, thyroid cancer, and other solid tumors.

Nageshwara Arvind Dasari, MD, discusses the patient population observed in the phase 3 FRESCO-2 trial in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki preserved quality of life vs physicians choice of treatment in patients with advanced, hormone receptor–positive/HER2-low metastatic breast cancer.

Treatment with rusfertide generated sustained hematocrit control at levels below 45% in patients with polycythemia vera, leading to a reduced need for repeated phlebotomy and eliminating this need in some patients, according to findings from 2 phase 2 clinical trials.

Ivosidenib plus azacitidine displayed favorable event-free survival, overall survival, and clinical responses compared with placebo plus azacitidine in patients with newly diagnosed, IDH1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia, according to findings from the phase 3 AGILE study.

Nageshwara Arvind Dasari, MD, discusses the results of the phase 3 FRESCO-2 trial of fruquintinib in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer, the significance of the data for the treatment paradigm, and the potential next steps for examining the agent in this disease.

Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, discusses the benefits of rusfertide, an agent currently under evaluation in patients with polycythemia vera. In addition, he lays out the distinctions between low-risk and high-risk polycythemia vera and explains the benefits of this drug in both populations.

Senthil Damodaran, MD, PhD, discusses data from the phase 2 ELAINE-2 trial examining the combination of lasofoxifene and abemaciclib in patients with ESR1-mutated, estrogen receptor–positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Dr Verstovsek discusses the FDA approval of pemigatinib in myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms with FGFR1 rearrangements, the transformative effects of pemigatinib, and the importance of identifying chromosomal abnormalities in patients with this aggressive disease.

Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, discusses the FDA approval of pemigatinib, an FGFR1 inhibitor, in patients with myeloid neoplasms with an FGFR1 rearrangement.

Treatment with brexucabtagene autoleucel drove durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma, particularly those with minimal residual disease negativity at 6 months.

Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, discusses the clinical implications of the FDA approval of pemigatinib, the results of the FIGHT-203 trial, and the need to conduct chromosomal analysis for patients with myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms.

Dr Elamin discusses results from a phase 2 study of poziotinib efficacy in EGFR exon 20–mutant non–small cell lung cancer and highlights the agent’s sensitivity in relation to insertion location.

Cemiplimab produced pathologic complete responses as a neoadjuvant treatment in more than half of patients with resectable, stage II to IV cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Compared with adjuvant pembrolizumab alone, the addition of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab significantly improved event-free survival outcomes for patients with stage III-IV melanoma with a hazard ratio of 0.58.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan demonstrated a promising quality-of-life benefit for patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-low metastatic breast cancer, according to a report on patient-reported outcomes from the pivotal DESTINY-Breast04 trial.

An updated analysis of the phase 1 SURPASS trial showed that ADP-A2M4CD8, a next-generational autologous T-cell receptor designed to patients with solid tumors, may be an effective therapy in MAGE-A4-positive disease.

Azacitidine plus venetoclax showed encouraging activity in patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Naval G. Daver, MD, discusses the rationale for the ongoing ENHANCE trial and explained magrolimab’s unique role as a macrophage immune checkpoint blocker. He also outlines unmet needs throughout the entire high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome population, and how novel approaches, such as magrolimab combinations, may fulfill these needs.

Matthew P. Goetz, MD, discusses overall survival data with ribociclib and abemaciclib in estrogen receptor–positive, HER2-negative disease; the role of adjuvant pembrolizumab in patients with triple-negative breast cancer; and the efficacy of PARP inhibitors in earlier settings.