Posts by Peter W. PENG

Editor's Note: The 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting concluded successfully. At this conference, two studies from Professor Xichun Hu’s team at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Hospital…

Advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC) patients have a poor prognosis with a low 5-year survival rate. Since the 1980s, platinum-based chemotherapy has been the standard first-line therapy for locally advanced or metastatic UC (la/mUC), but the benefits are limited. The real-world tolerance and treatment outcomes of platinum therapy remain unclear. This year's study analyzed data from advanced UC patients in the United States. This article summarizes and organizes the findings for our readers.

The 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI 2025) successfully concluded on January 25. One of the most closely watched presentations at the conference was the release of results from the EORTC-1203—INNOVATION trial (Abstract LBA331), capturing the attention of oncologists worldwide. Oncology Frontier had the exclusive opportunity to interview Dr. Anna Dorothea Wagner, a medical oncologist from Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, to discuss the study’s findings. Below is a summary of our conversation.

A recent study published in Clinical Cancer Research (Jan 9, 2025) highlights the potential of structural variant (SV)-based circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection in early-stage breast cancer (EBC). Unlike traditional…

The landscape of systemic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has undergone a major transformation, shifting from single-agent targeted or immunotherapies to dual immune checkpoint inhibitors and immune-targeted combination regimens. The 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI), held on January 23, 2025, highlighted two pivotal studies—CheckMate 9DW and CARES-310—focusing on dual immunotherapy strategies for previously untreated unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC) and the impact of viral infection status on treatment outcomes.

In recent years, the emergence and breakthrough progress of multiple targeted and immunotherapy drugs, along with their combination regimens, have brought significant transformation to the systemic treatment of esophageal and gastric cancer. The field has evolved from monotherapy with targeted or immune agents to an era of dual or multi-immunotherapy combinations.