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ASCO 2025 precision oncology highlights

Join us for an insightful precision oncology educational session, featuring key highlights from the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Join us for an insightful precision oncology educational session, featuring key highlights from the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Dr Stephen Luen and the Early Drug Development (EDD) fellows from the EDD / Phase 1 Cancer Clinical Trials Unit will share emerging data on ctDNA-driven strategies to inform novel therapeutic approaches across a range of cancer types.

Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and stay at the forefront of translational cancer research and clinical innovation.

About the Precision Oncology Forum

The VCCC Alliance Precision Oncology Forum is an educational seminar series aimed at providing scientists and clinicians with the latest concepts, evidence-based knowledge, and their clinical application in precision oncology.

Sessions are conducted via a hybrid format and typically include an educational presentation accompanied by case reviews to illustrate key points.

Chairs

Dr Huiling Xu
Senior Research Fellow, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Dr Joep Vissers
Curation Scientist Team Leader, the University of Melbourne

Speakers

Dr Stephen Luen
Medical oncologist and translational researcher, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

ctDNA in patients with stage 2/3 HR+HER2- breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy in the I-SPY2 endocrine optimization pilot (EOP) trial

Dr Catherine Williams
EDD Fellow, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Comprehensive genomic profiling of matched ctDNA and tissue from patients with less common cancers enrolled in but not eligible for a treatment arm of the NCI-MATCH trial

Dr Nadav Harel
EDD Fellow, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Ultra-sensitive pan-cancer molecular residual disease assessment using whole-genome sequencing-based personalized ctDNA panel: Initial results from the MONSTAR-SCREEN-3 project

Dr Ying Zhong
EDD Fellow, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Camizestrant + CDK4/6i for treatment of emergent ESR1 mutations during first-line endocrine-based therapy ahead of disease progression in patients with HR+HER2- advanced breast cancer: SERENA-6

 

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