Patricia LoRusso, DO, PhD, professor of medicine and associate director of Innovative Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, discusses the key questions that still remain regarding combination and sequencing with PARP inhibitors.
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.
LITESPARK-012 data at ESMO 2026 show that adding belzutifan or quavonlimab to pembrolizumab/lenvatinib did not improve survival for advanced kidney cancer.
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.
ADCs improved on chemotherapy-based regimens in PD-L1–negative and EGFR-mutated NSCLC, while chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab and pumitamig plus docetaxel showed activity in PD-L1–high and post-chemoimmunotherapy disease.
ESMO 2026 unveils GI cancer advances: targeted and immunotherapy regimens boost survival in pancreatic, colorectal, gastric, and HER2+ gastroesophageal disease.