Key Highlights in Ovarian Cancer From ASCO 2025
Novel drug combinations that improve outcomes, outstanding questions about treatment sequence, and encouraging results in chemotherapy resistant disease are among the ovarian cancer highlights presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
Stephanie Gaillard, from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, begins with the ROSELLA trial of relacorilant plus nab-paclitaxel vs nab-paclitaxel alone in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. The results showed improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in this difficult-to-treat population.
Next, she discusses the TRUST trial in advanced ovarian cancer, comparing radical upfront surgical therapy followed by chemotherapy with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery, followed by further chemotherapy. Although PFS was improved by upfront surgery, OS was not, leaving the treatment sequence open to question.
Dr Gaillard then reports on an updated survival analysis from the OVATION-2 study of intraperitoneal IMNN-001 plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in newly diagnosed advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. The approach achieved impressive OS, alongside the previously reported PFS benefit.
Finally, she reports on a phase 2 study of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in recurrent or persistent clear cell ovarian carcinoma. The combination showed encouraging response rates and PFS in a population known to be highly resistant to chemotherapy.
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