ASCO attendees report most practice-changing tracks

Today, a new barometer survey from  Sermo, a physician-first online community and leader in global HCP insights, timed to the conclusion of the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference found that the tracks oncologists found the most practice-changing were breast cancer (58%), lung cancer (34%), and developmental therapeutics – molecularly targets agents and tumor biology (32%).

Among the breast cancer tracks being followed at ASCO, the DESTINY-Breast04 abstract was the most highly attended with 79% of the surveyed oncologists who were interested in breast cancer data attending this abstract. 43% of oncologists found the data presented in the abstract to be meaningful to their treatment decisions.

In terms of treatment data being presented at ASCO, data relating to tumor targeting antibodies and adoptive cell therapies were the most interesting among oncologists. When asked what treatment data presented at the conference they found very interesting, 59% of surveyed oncologists found tumor targeting antibodies very interesting. Other data being presented at ASCO that were of significant interest to oncologists included adoptive cell therapies data as reported by 58% of oncologists, immune effector cell modulators co-inhibitory antagonists as reported by 54% of oncologists, and immunogenic cell death inducers (radiotherapy and chemotherapy) as reported by 45% of oncologists.