ASCO 2026 Highlights – Part 1: Landmark Advances in Targeted Therapy

In this Part 1 of 2 ASCO 2026 Highlights episodes, hosts Dr. Narjust Florez and Dr. Stephen Liu are joined by Dr. Alice Shaw and Dr. Jonathan Goldman to review some of the most impactful targeted therapy data presented at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting. The discussion explores the practice-changing LIBRETTO-432 trial in early-stage RET-positive NSCLC, long-term outcomes with lorlatinib in ALK-positive disease, emerging data for neladalkib, and promising results for sunvozertinib in EGFR exon 20 insertion–positive NSCLC, highlighting how these findings may influence treatment decisions across disease stages.

Guests: Dr. Alice Shaw. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of Medical Oncology, and a thoracic oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer, having led landmark clinical trials that established crizotinib, ceritinib, and lorlatinib as standards of care.

Dr. Jonathan W. Goldman is a Professor of Medicine and thoracic oncologist at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he serves as a principal investigator in the Phase I drug development program. Dr. Goldman has been at the forefront of early-phase oncology trials across multiple tumor types, with a particular focus on novel therapeutics in lung cancer, and he was the presenting author of Libretto 432 at the plenary session at the 2026 ASCO