
The Community Oncology Alliance said CMS’s final 2027 outpatient rule pays 340B hospitals ASP minus 28% for drugs, but physician payment cuts still threaten practices.
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The Community Oncology Alliance said CMS’s final 2027 outpatient rule pays 340B hospitals ASP minus 28% for drugs, but physician payment cuts still threaten practices.

Chrisann Kyi, MD, discusses the 79.3% response rate with sofetabart mipitecan plus bevacizumab in platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer and phase 3 plans.

NCCN has added FDA-approved lirafugratinib as a category 2A subsequent-line option for previously treated FGFR2-rearranged cholangiocarcinoma.

Hear how a single ctDNA blood draw 3 to 9 weeks into immunotherapy may reveal response earlier than imaging in NSCLC, with Valsamo Anagnostou, MD, PhD.

Sara Lonardi, MD, discusses the final overall survival analysis of CheckMate-8HW from ESMO 2026 and its implications for first-line MSI-H/dMMR mCRC.

Catch up on October 2026 FDA oncology actions: approvals for pirtobrutinib, tucatinib, and dostarlimab, plus BLA and NDA submissions and a new designation.

Five ESMO 2026 abstracts report responses with 4 antibody-drug conjugates in ovarian cancer and a subcutaneous HER2-directed ADC plus PD-L1 inhibitor in cervical cancer.

Late-breaking ESMO 2026 data show PFS gains with 3 antibody-drug conjugates, a 6-year OS benefit with adjuvant ribociclib, and no OS gain with pembrolizumab.

Recap the 4 late-breaking phase 3 trials from ESMO 2026 Presidential Symposium I in melanoma, bladder cancer, small cell lung cancer, and prostate cancer.

The FDA converted the accelerated approval of pembrolizumab in TMB-high solid tumors to traditional approval, redefining TMB-high as at least 13 mut/Mb.

Following an end-of-phase 2 meeting with the FDA, Rgenta plans to start a phase 3 trial of oral RGT-61159 in adenoid cystic carcinoma in the first quarter of 2027.

Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, discusses the FDA’s expanded approval of taletrectinib for ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

J. Thaddeus Beck, MD, discusses how the shift from intravenous to subcutaneous formulations is changing oncology practice, from clinic logistics to patient preferences.

Gary Simmons, DO, MSHA, discusses outpatient CAR T-cell therapy in the community, the operational and payer bottlenecks his practice has faced, and advice for colleagues.

Preview the late-breaking studies at ESMO Congress 2026, from KRAS inhibitors and ADCs to bispecifics and perioperative immunotherapy across tumor types.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, Narjust Florez, MD, discusses lung cancer risk, biomarker testing, and trial access in Hispanic and Latinx patients.

Theodore Wagener, PhD, of The Ohio State University discusses the design of the phase 2 DREAM LUNG study of psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression in non–small cell lung cancer.

Daniel Heng, MD, discusses how belzutifan plus lenvatinib fills an unmet need after immunotherapy in RCC, with insights on managing hypoxia and anemia and on sequencing.

The FDA approved tucatinib with trastuzumab and pertuzumab as maintenance therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer, based on median PFS of 24.9 vs 16.3 months in HER2CLIMB-05.

Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, explains why the updated taletrectinib label does not change her practice and reviews new WCLC subgroup data in ROS1+ NSCLC.

Komal Jhaveri, MD, discusses the FDA approval of imlunestrant plus abemaciclib for ESR1-mutated breast cancer, EMBER-3 data, and what's next.

Sarah Premji, MD, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses community trial access, biomarker-driven drug development, and key breast cancer studies to watch.

Komal L. Jhaveri, MD, discusses the unmet need, EMBER-3 data, and future directions after the FDA approved imlunestrant plus abemaciclib for ESR1-mutated breast cancer.

Submission of a new drug application for zipalertinib plus chemotherapy has begun under the FDA's RTOR program, based on phase 3 REZILIENT3 data showing a 6-month PFS gain.

Giredestrant plus everolimus reduced the risk of progression or death by 44% in the ITT population and 62% in ESR1-mutated disease in phase 3 evERA data published in NEJM.

Resection with cesium-131 tile-based radiation therapy prolonged time to surgical bed recurrence vs resection with stereotactic radiation in the phase 3 ROADS trial.

Benjamin Herzberg, MD, discusses KRAS-mutant non–small cell lung cancer, upfront biomarker testing, and the emerging RAS inhibitor toolkit on Targeted Talks.

Closing sessions at IMS 2026 featured MRD-guided treatment strategies, real-world CAR T-cell data, and mixed results on cilta-cel neurotoxicity prevention in myeloma.

Etentamig significantly improved response and survival over standard therapy in the phase 3 CERVINO trial, headlining day 3 of IMS 2026 myeloma coverage.

At IMS 2026, 7-year GEM2014MAIN data showed that half of patients who stopped MRD-guided maintenance remained progression free, and new data from DREAMM 9, MIDAS, and novel bispecific antibody studies were presented.

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