ASCO: Biomarkers in Cancer Prevention

Parul N. Barry, MD, FACRO, discussed extending advanced radiation services to satellite sites and offered guidance for early career physicians building new programs.

Mark Burkard, MD, PhD, discussed genomic gaps, extreme survivors of metastatic breast cancer, and how minimal residual disease testing may refine care.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discussed KEYNOTE-B49 data showing pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy improved PFS in PD-L1-positive HR+/HER2- breast cancer.

Dirk Schadendorf, MD, outlineed which patients with BRAF V600–mutant melanoma, including those with brain metastases, may be candidates for triplet therapy.

Dirk Schadendorf, MD, discussed final STARBOARD data with encorafenib, binimetinib, and pembrolizumab and its role in BRAF V600–mutant melanoma care.

Heath Skinner, MD, PhD, discussed the 3 considerations that determine which new radiation oncology service lines his network chooses to build.

Dwight H. Owen, MBBCh, MS, discussed why severe immune-related toxicities remain hard to predict as immunotherapy combinations expand in lung cancer.

Mingjia Li, MD, discussed the limitations of current biomarkers in selecting patients with resectable NSCLC for neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy.