Shahzad Raza, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, reviews safety and efficacy data from Nexicart-2, the first U.S.-based trial of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy—an agent known as Nxc-201—in patients with relapsed or refractory light chain (AL) amyloidosis (Abstract 7508).
South Florida has a unique demographic, characterized by a large Hispanic population with ancestries from the Caribbean and Central and South America. Arelis Esther Martir-Negron, MD, of Miami Cancer Institute, presents data from a retrospective analysis that sought to determine the frequency and spectrum of BRCA pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in this population (Abstract 10579).
Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, of Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, discusses the ongoing LIBERATE trial, which is evaluating safety and technical efficacy of transcranial MR-guided microbubble-enhanced transcranial focused ultrasound for increasing blood circulating tumor and cell-free DNA levels in adults with glioblastoma (Abstract TPS2094).
Andrew J. Armstrong, MD, MS, of Duke Cancer Institute Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, Duke University School of Medicine, discusses the 5-year overall survival analysis of the ARCHES trial, which investigated enzalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (Abstract 5005).
Mafalda Oliveira, MD, PhD, of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, discusses findings on the incidence and management of hyperglycemia in a subset of patients with prediabetes and/or obesity included in the phase I trial of inavolisib alone and in combination with endocrine therapy with or without palbociclib for PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer (Abstract 1004).
Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, presents event-free survival data from the phase III MATTERHORN trial of the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab plus FLOT (fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin and docetaxel chemotherapy) in patients with resectable gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer (LBA5).
