What's Hot at ASCO This Year? (Brentuximab/ovarian cancer/CD30)

What's Hot at ASCO This Year?

".... Another study that builds on a previous breakthrough screened more than 1000 patients with nonlymphoma malignancies for high CD30 expression (Abstract 3069). A drug targeting this molecular defect, brentuximab (Adcetris, Seattle Genetics), has recently been approved for Hodgkin's lymphoma, but the new study found the CD30 defect in patients with mesothelioma and in those with testicular and ovarian cancer. The next step will be to see if these patients respond to the drug, Dr. Vogelzang explained.....