ASCO 2023 Highlights

Chicago, IL—The presidential theme for the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting was “Partnering With Patients: The Cornerstone of Clinical Care and Research.” In his address during the opening session of the meeting, Eric P. Winer, MD, FASCO, Director, Yale Cancer Center, and Physician-in-Chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, CT, and ASCO’s 2022-2023 President, discussed the importance of physician–patient partnerships for improving healthcare outcomes.

Chicago, IL—The addition of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib (Kisqali) to endocrine therapy significantly improved invasive disease-free survival in patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, early breast cancer, according to interim results of the phase 3 NATALEE trial, which were presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

Chicago, IL—Interim results from the phase 3 COMMANDS trial demonstrated that first-line treatment with luspatercept-aamt (Reblozyl) increased hemoglobin levels and enabled nearly twice as many patients with transfusion-dependent, lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes to avoid red blood cell transfusions during the first 24 weeks of the study compared with standard-of-care epoetin alfa.