Tuesday, March 19, 2024

2024 SGO Annual Meeting Sunday March 17th Session Review

 

I started the day off attending an ISS ( Industry Sponsored Symposium) which reviewed the use of ADC's ( antibody drug conjugates ) in gynecologic cancers. The session included patient case reviews where the audience and speakers were asked what treatment they would choose for a patient with a specific treatment experience and co-morbidities. It was very interesting to "listen in" on the discussion. 

The next session was a review by the editors of Gynecologic Oncology and Gyn Oncology Reports of their magazines in terms of readership, reviews and future expansion of clinical guidelines. 

The Presidential Invited Speaker was Erin Diehl who presented on  "F" Words at Work. With a bit of improv she talked about failure, #failfluence and the importance of reframing the failure to improve ourselves.


Focused Plenary IV on ctDNA was an interesting group of abstracts all dealing with using circulating DNA for prediction of disease.

 

This study included a new term for me - Fragmentomics -  the investigation of fragmentation patterns of cell-free DNA (cfDNA). 

This was an interesting proof of concept study

 I also attended the Late Breaking Abstract Session.  

This was an interesting study of using Avutometinib plus defactinib ( Kinase inhibitors)  for Low Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer.

This study did not reach the endpoint expected so the study was ended. We may want all the studies to be successful but we can always learn from studies that are not working. 

Focusing on ARID1A in ovarian clear cell and endometriod endometrial cancers. 

This study compared different diagnostic tests for ovarian cancer in post-menopausal women. 

 

I was pleased to see the rarer ovarian cancers being discussed.

Thanks to Dr.Monica Avila (@MAvilaMD) and CrozrX (@CrozrX) for sharing their insights into the studies presented. 

 

Next post will be what I learned on Monday the last day of the meeting.

Dee

Every Day is a Blessing!

 

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