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Hope Cottrill, MD, highlights practice-changing developments in endometrial cancer care, the benefits of local control with radiation in patients with locally aggressive disease, and questions that remain regarding treatment sequencing with immunotherapy.

Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, highlights key insights about renal cell carcinoma that were presented at the meeting covering considerations on sequencing TKIs, the need for further research to elucidate novel therapies, and the importance of offering clinical trials to all patients with genitourinary malignancies.

Jaime R. Merchán, MD, discusses the evolution and current role of IO/TKI regimens in advanced RCC; highlights data from the phase 3 CLEAR and KEYNOTE-426 trials supporting the use of pembrolizumab-based regimens in untreated ccRCC; and speculates on how future biomarker-driven research could improve the benefit seen with these combinations in this disease.

Lance C. Pagliaro, MD, highlights updated data from the JAVELIN Bladder 100 and EV-103 trials in metastatic urothelial carcinoma, discusses their relevance for navigating the expanding treatment armamentarium for this disease, and outlines several future avenues for research.

Maria Hafez, MD, discusses factors such as HER2 status, lymph node negativity, and risk stratification that influence the selection of adjuvant treatment approaches for patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer and expands on pivotal data that have changed the paradigm.

Hope Cottrill, MD, highlights key points that were presented at a State of the Science Summit meeting, including the role of bevacizumab plus PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer management, how to manage adverse events associated with antibody-drug conjugates, and ongoing research in ovarian cancer risk reduction.

State of the Science Summit - Breast Cancer: Chaired by Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH

Kathleen N. Moore, MD, MS, discusses the challenges with utilizing immune-targeted therapy for ovarian cancer, expands on the impact of the tumor microenvironment on the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors, and details ongoing research with different treatment approaches in ovarian cancer.

Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, highlights key points presented at the meeting, including considerations with PARP inhibitor combinations for patients with mCRPC, how disease characteristics factor into treatment selection for patients with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, and more.

Ehab L. Atallah, MD, highlights updates in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, emphasizing the importance of understanding the plethora of options that are present for oncologists treating patients within this population.