Annals of Oncology is ESMO's flagship journal, publishing European phase 3 trials, the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines and the abstract books for the ESMO Congress.
Annals of Oncology appears monthly and publishes the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (free to read), ESMO-MCBS benefit scores, trial results often presented at ESMO Congress, translational biomarker studies and the ESMO congress abstract supplements. Published by Elsevier since 2019 (previously Oxford University Press). Hybrid access.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT04493853 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the CAPItello-281 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The latest in a line of negative targeted-therapy trials in triple-negative disease (EGFR, VEGF, iniparib, now AKT): a modest delay in progression that did not translate into survival, in the same year that an antibody-drug conjugate did. It is why the roadmap treats pathway-targeted small molecules as the road not taken.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT03742102 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the BEGONIA trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The first-line overall survival result that made an antibody-drug conjugate the standard for PD-L1-negative or immunotherapy-ineligible metastatic triple-negative disease, and the reason the sequencing question (which TROP2 drug first, what after it) is now urgent.
A second publication from the KEYNOTE-671 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One of the most cited trial reports Europe PMC returns for Trastuzumab deruxtecan in HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
A second publication from the monarchE trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
A second publication from the trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Answers the two questions that hung over adjuvant olaparib, durability and late leukaemia, in its favour; the remaining question is whether carriers who also received pembrolizumab or capecitabine, whom the trial did not study, get the same benefit.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT03975647 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the HER2CLIMB-02 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT02938299 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the Neoadjuvant L19IL2 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT03778229 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the SAVANNAH trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT05722015 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Platinum and immunotherapy are now consensus for early triple-negative disease; the open votes have moved to who can safely receive less.
For a fast-moving disease the living guideline, not the 2021 paper, is where European recommendations for triple-negative breast cancer now change; readers should check the website rather than the journal.
This is the European standard the UK page for triple-negative breast cancer is compared against; NICE guidance covers the same ground with a narrower set of funded drugs.
An off-the-shelf alternative to CAR-T for repeatedly relapsed follicular lymphoma: no apheresis, no manufacturing wait, and a complete response rate in the same range, at the cost of continued treatment rather than a single infusion.
It is the positive half of the tumour mutational burden story and it applies only to single-agent immunotherapy, which is the setting fewest patients are treated in.
This is the reference European standard against which UK and NHS practice for gallbladder cancer is compared; it treats gallbladder cancer within biliary tract cancer rather than as its own disease.
The split between favourable and unfavourable cancer of unknown primary on OnCo, and the treatment on each page, follow this guideline.
This is the European standard the UK and NHS page for colorectal cancer is compared against; NICE NG151 covers the same ground for England with a narrower set of funded drugs.
A second publication from the trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the European standard the UK and NHS page for pancreatic cancer is compared against; NICE guideline NG85 (2018) covers the same ground with an older evidence base and a narrower set of funded drugs.
The first prospective test of acting on ctDNA in triple-negative disease, and a negative one: with a quarterly, single-mutation assay the window between detectable DNA and visible metastasis was too short to intervene. Later designs use tumour-informed assays, earlier sampling and drugs with more single-agent activity.
St Gallen is where de-escalation questions in triple-negative disease (who needs the full KEYNOTE-522 regimen, who can skip adjuvant pembrolizumab) are first put to a vote; the 2023 panel framed intensity and duration as the central problem.
A second publication from the ROAR trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One cancer page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The third trial to show carboplatin's benefit persists beyond pathological complete response and the trial that closed the neoadjuvant PARP inhibitor route in unselected triple-negative disease; PARP inhibition survives only in germline BRCA carriers.
Two term pages on OnCo cite this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing pages listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The survival result that moved adjuvant olaparib from a disease-free survival approval to an undisputed standard, and the reason germline testing at diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer is now a treatment decision rather than a family history exercise.
A second publication from the KEYNOTE-158 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
A second publication from the SOLAR-1 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
TROP2 IHC does not gate sacituzumab govitecan: the label requires no test, and the corpus records TROP2 as an expression readout without a threshold.
The chondrosarcoma page's recommendations for curettage of low-grade limb lesions, wide resection for higher grades and particle therapy for skull base tumours follow this guideline.
ctDNA clearance may refine pCR as a surrogate: a patient with residual disease but no ctDNA may not need escalation, the hypothesis behind ctDNA-guided post-neoadjuvant trials.
Methylation-based screening is real but weakest exactly where pancreatic cancer needs it, at stage I, which is why high-risk surveillance rather than population screening carries the field here.
The document that made immunotherapy, PARP inhibition and the first antibody-drug conjugate the European standard for metastatic triple-negative disease; every later first-line change is an amendment to it.
Most decisions on the localised and metastatic anal cancer pages, from the chemoradiotherapy schedule to when to operate and what to give for metastatic disease, follow this guideline or its American counterpart.
One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Jean-Pascal Machiels at King Albert II Cancer Institute, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
One of the most cited trial reports Europe PMC returns for Mirvetuximab soravtansine in Ovarian cancer, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT03125902 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the IMpassion131 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The general principles on the sarcoma subtype pages (reference centre surgery, radiotherapy for high-grade deep tumours, doxorubicin first line, histology-directed later lines) follow this guideline.
Acral melanoma needs its own treatment evidence: anti-PD-1 monotherapy has limited activity, so combination immunotherapy, KIT-directed therapy and trials of CDK4/6 inhibitors are important options.
The European rulebook for what happens after a colon cancer operation, and the reason a patient with a T3 N1 tumour is now offered three months of chemotherapy rather than six.
The site-specific and stage-specific approach on the marginal zone lymphoma page follows this guideline.
TMB-high is uncommon but not negligible in TNBC, rises at relapse, and the tumour-agnostic pembrolizumab indication makes it worth measuring on a metastatic biopsy.
One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Jean-Pascal Machiels at King Albert II Cancer Institute, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
A second publication from the ALEX trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Peter Thuss-Patience at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
Postoperative ctDNA marks a group that current adjuvant chemotherapy does not cure, the rationale for ctDNA-guided intensification trials.
A second publication from the OlympiAD trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
TILs are prognostic without chemotherapy, which is what a de-escalation biomarker has to show before trials omit treatment on its basis.
NTRK fusions are under 0.5% of pancreatic cancers but carry a tumour-agnostic approval; this case is the published proof that the label applies here.
One cancer page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Androgen receptor testing and androgen deprivation therapy are now standard options for salivary duct carcinoma, often before chemotherapy in slowly progressing disease.
The observation after complete surgery for stage I granulosa cell tumour, lifelong inhibin monitoring and endocrine or bevacizumab-based options at relapse follow this guideline.
One term page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Robin L. Jones at The Royal Marsden, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
The survival evidence behind platinum in early triple-negative disease, and the first large demonstration that most triple-negative tumours are DNA-repair deficient whether or not BRCA is mutated, which is why HRD scores have not become a platinum selection test.
This is the sourced bridge between expression subtype and mutation: it tells a clinician that a LAR tumour is the one to sequence for PIK3CA and AKT1, and that immunomodulatory biology is a favourable prognostic group before any immunotherapy.
One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Florence Duffaud at Hôpital de la Timone, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
The analysis that put 'left-sided, RAS and BRAF wild-type' into every guideline as the anti-EGFR population, and made an anatomical fact into a treatment-selection biomarker.
The document behind the MRI-first rectal cancer pathway used across Europe and the UK; the total neoadjuvant therapy trials (RAPIDO, PRODIGE 23, OPRA) that came after it are the main reason an update was needed.
One technology page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Surgical resection as the only curative treatment and the sequence of systemic options on the lung neuroendocrine tumour page follow this consensus.
The thymoma and thymic carcinoma pages follow this guideline for who gets surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy; its central message is that these rare tumours should be discussed in an expert network.
It is the molecular case for sidedness, made before the trial meta-analyses that turned it into a treatment rule, and it supplies the mechanism: ligand dependence on the left, pathway mutation on the right.
A second publication from the BOLERO-2 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT00433589 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the MINDACT trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One term page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The 55 percent Ki-67 threshold and the recognition that well-differentiated grade 3 tumours behave differently from carcinomas, now embedded in the WHO classification, came from this analysis.
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Doxorubicin-ifosfamide is the standard first-line chemotherapy for advanced MPNST, and the analysis supports treating it like other high-grade sarcomas while recognising its shorter survival.
The definition used in trials and clinics, and the insistence on systemic therapy first and mastectomy rather than breast conservation, come from this document.
GI oncologist who led CALGB/SWOG 80405 and helped show that tumour side matters in colorectal cancer.
Oncology pharmacist-scientist at UC Irvine and President of MASCC, the multinational society for supportive care in cancer, known for research on cancer-related cognitive impairment.
Alinta Hegmane represents Riga East University Hospital / Oncology Centre of Latvia in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Latvia.
Ananya Choudhury is a clinical oncologist developing biomarker-guided radiotherapy for bladder cancer.
Andrés Cervantes is a gastrointestinal oncologist and was ESMO President for 2023-2024.
Andrew Wardley is a breast oncologist involved in the PERSEPHONE trial of shorter trastuzumab.
Radiation oncologist specialising in head and neck cancer who oversees clinical affairs at Poland's National Research Institute of Oncology.
Angelika Eggert is a paediatric oncologist and neuroblastoma researcher.
Surgeon who developed the laparoscopic score for predicting whether ovarian cancer can be fully removed.
Anthony Gonçalves is a medical oncologist leading breast and ovarian cancer research at Institut Paoli-Calmettes.
Leading nasopharyngeal carcinoma researcher who directs the Hong Kong Cancer Institute at CUHK.
Gynaecological medical oncologist directing the Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra; led the PRIMA trial of niraparib maintenance in ovarian cancer.
Hepatologist at Clínica Universidad de Navarra and a leading international investigator in liver cancer systemic therapy and radioembolisation.
Principal investigator of HARMONi-2, the trial where ivonescimab beat pembrolizumab head-to-head, and of the first EGFR-TKI phase 3 in Chinese patients.
Carlos Barrios is the most visible Latin American voice in global breast cancer trials and a founder of the region's cooperative group LACOG.
Breast trialist who co-led OlympiA, showing adjuvant olaparib improves survival in BRCA carriers.
Radiation oncologist who chairs the directorate of the University Cancer Center Inselspital in Bern.
David Cameron is a breast oncologist who chairs the Breast International Group.
Denis Lacombe leads Europe's academic cancer trials organisation.
Elena Élez is a colorectal cancer investigator who led the BREAKWATER trial's clinical programme.
Urologist who led the CCGA study validating the Galleri methylation-based multi-cancer detection test.
Prostate cancer trialist who helped bring abiraterone and sipuleucel-T to patients, and led ASCO in 2025-26.
Led CRYSTAL, which established cetuximab in RAS wild-type colorectal cancer, and has shaped ESMO's GI guidelines for two decades.
Madrid breast oncologist and Vice President of the SOLTI breast cancer research group.
A GI oncologist whose work on immunotherapy biomarkers and Chinese gastric cancer trials feeds global guidelines.
Fiona Blackhall is a thoracic oncologist leading small-cell lung cancer trials and biomarker research at The Christie.
Marseille oncologist who led REGOBONE, the trial that showed regorafenib delays progression in metastatic osteosarcoma and other bone sarcomas.
German GI oncologist who leads ESMO's gastric cancer guidelines and pivotal perioperative trials.
Professor who directs Centre Jean Perrin, the comprehensive cancer centre for the Auvergne region in Clermont-Ferrand, now in her second five-year term.
Gérard Zalcman represents Cancer Institute AP-HP Nord, Université Paris Cité in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in France.
Giampaolo Tortora is a medical oncologist who directs the Gemelli comprehensive cancer centre.
Medical oncologist who co-directs NCT/UCC Dresden and co-leads the NCT/DKFZ MASTER precision oncology programme for rare and young-onset cancers.
Principal investigator of POLARIX, the trial that gave DLBCL its first improvement on R-CHOP in twenty years.
Led PAOLA-1, which showed olaparib plus bevacizumab helps women with HRD-positive ovarian cancer beyond BRCA carriers.
Brussels oncologist who led KEYNOTE-412, the trial that tested adding pembrolizumab to chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer.
Sarcoma expert who leads Centre Léon Bérard and the French cancer centre network UNICANCER.
Medical oncologist serving as 14th President of the Korean Cancer Study Group, Korea's main academic cooperative trials group.
Jonas Bergh is a breast oncologist and long-standing leader of Swedish and European breast cancer trials.
Jun Guo built China's melanoma programme around the acral and mucosal subtypes common in Asia, and led the trials that made toripalimab the first domestic PD-1 antibody approved.
Statistician who invented the multi-arm multi-stage design behind STAMPEDE, letting one trial test many treatments at once.
Medical oncologist who is Director General of the Institut du Cancer de Montpellier, the reference cancer centre for eastern Occitanie founded in 1923.
Medical oncologist who is Director General of the Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest, the regional cancer centre for western France with sites in Angers and Nantes.
Cardiologist who chairs the Executive Board of Leiden University Medical Center.
Breast oncologist who led MONARCH 3 and studies how genetics shapes response to endocrine therapy.
Thoracic medical oncologist who has been chief executive of Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, Sydney's not-for-profit cancer hospital, since 2023.
German breast oncologist whose ADAPT trials use biology to decide who can have less chemotherapy.
Created the ESMO Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale, the standard tool for grading how much a cancer drug really helps.
Leads the German GMALL group and showed blinatumomab clears residual leukaemia in adults with ALL.
Nicola Normanno represents IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori 'Dino Amadori' (IRST) in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Italy.
Led KEYNOTE-826, which made pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy the first-line standard for recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.
Led CheckMate 743, the trial that gave mesothelioma its first new first-line therapy in 16 years.
Berlin oncologist who led GATSBY, the trial showing that the antibody-drug conjugate T-DM1 did not beat taxane chemotherapy in previously treated HER2-positive stomach cancer.
Upper GI surgeon and Dean of the CUHK Faculty of Medicine, the academic home of Prince of Wales Hospital.
Oncology professor and Inserm team leader who directs the Institut du Cancer Paris CARPEM, the OECI-accredited comprehensive cancer centre of AP-HP Centre in Paris.
Professor of medicine who directs Centre Eugène Marquis, the regional comprehensive cancer centre for Brittany in Rennes.
Radiation oncologist who led intraoperative radiotherapy trials and directs research at IEO.
London sarcoma specialist who led TAPPAS, the trial that tested the anti-angiogenic protein TRC105 with pazopanib in angiosarcoma, and who has led many international sarcoma trials.
Sara López-Tarruella is a breast oncologist leading GEICAM neoadjuvant studies in triple-negative disease.
A lung cancer oncologist who has helped test checkpoint inhibitors and next-generation ADCs in Korean patients.
A senior breast cancer specialist who has led Japanese arms of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer trials for two decades.
Shunji Takahashi leads medical oncology and early-phase trials at Japan's oldest cancer institute.
Leads the German Breast Group, whose GeparX trials defined neoadjuvant chemotherapy and immunotherapy in breast cancer.
Chairman of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, the society that issues Europe's clinical nutrition guidelines, including those for people with cancer.
Led ECHELON-2, the first trial to improve survival in peripheral T-cell lymphoma, using brentuximab vedotin.
Breast medical oncologist from Gustave Roussy who chairs the board of France's Institut National du Cancer.
Ulrich Keilholz is a medical oncologist who directs the Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Xavier Pivot represents Institut Strauss in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the organisation among its members in France.
Physician who leads Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, the 500-bed prefectural cancer hospital in Nagoya, Japan, as its hospital director.
A medical oncologist who has led many of China's registrational trials of domestically developed targeted agents and antibodies.
Gastric cancer surgeon who serves as President of Peking University Cancer Hospital.
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This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT04493853 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the CAPItello-281 trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The latest in a line of negative targeted-therapy trials in triple-negative disease (EGFR, VEGF, iniparib, now AKT): a modest delay in progression that did not translate into survival, in the same year that an antibody-drug conjugate did. It is why the roadmap treats pathway-targeted small molecules as the road not taken.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT03742102 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the BEGONIA trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
The first-line overall survival result that made an antibody-drug conjugate the standard for PD-L1-negative or immunotherapy-ineligible metastatic triple-negative disease, and the reason the sequencing question (which TROP2 drug first, what after it) is now urgent.
A second publication from the KEYNOTE-671 trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One of the most cited trial reports Europe PMC returns for Trastuzumab deruxtecan in HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
A second publication from the monarchE trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
A second publication from the trial, later than the first and described in its title as an update or longer-term analysis. Read it with the primary publication linked from the trial page; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.