CSCO International Vision | Professors Zefei Jiang and Giuseppe Curigliano: CSCO x ESMO Join Forces to Build a United Front Against Cancer, Setting a Milestone with DB09 in HER2-Targeted Therapy 

CSCO International Vision | Professors Zefei Jiang and Giuseppe Curigliano: CSCO x ESMO Join Forces to Build a United Front Against Cancer, Setting a Milestone with DB09 in HER2-Targeted Therapy 

The 28th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) was held in Jinan, Shandong, from September 10 to 14, 2025, under the theme “Standardized Treatment, Innovation-Driven Progress.” The meeting gathered leading scholars from China and abroad for a major exchange of ideas. In the field of breast cancer, Professor Giuseppe Curigliano, President-Elect of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and Professor at the University of Milan, shared the revolutionary progress of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Professor Zefei Jiang, President-Elect of CSCO and oncologist at the General Hospital of the PLA, presented Chinese subgroup data from the DESTINY-Breast09 (DB09) study, which investigated first-line treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) plus pertuzumab for HER2-positive advanced breast cancer, highlighting the bright future of ADC therapy. The two experts sat down with Oncology Frontier to discuss the promising outlook for CSCO–ESMO collaboration and to interpret the clinical impact of DESTINY-Breast09.
Professor Jinchun Xing: Advances and Future Perspectives in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urothelial Carcinoma | 2025 Pujiang Uro-Oncology Conference 

Professor Jinchun Xing: Advances and Future Perspectives in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urothelial Carcinoma | 2025 Pujiang Uro-Oncology Conference 

Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with high incidence and severe complications, significantly impacting patients’ quality of life and survival outcomes. In recent years, there have been remarkable advances in both the diagnosis and treatment of UC. At the 2025 Pujiang Uro-Oncology Conference—jointly organized by the CSCO Urothelial Carcinoma Expert Committee, CSCO Renal Cancer Expert Committee, the Chinese Urologic Oncology Cooperative Group, the Beijing Health Promotion Association Chen Jumei Public Welfare Foundation, and the Shanghai Urologic Oncology Institute, and co-organized by Fudan University Cancer Hospital—Professor Jinchun Xing of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University delivered an insightful lecture on the latest breakthroughs and future directions in UC management.