{"title":"More options, more questions in the management of early relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma.","authors":"Carlyn Rose Tan, Sham Mailankody","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01191-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01191-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148648862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Solange Peters, Petros Grivas, Christophe Massard, Sara M Tolaney, Michel Obeid
{"title":"Clinical toxicity of ADCs and ICI-ADC combinations: mechanisms, patterns and management.","authors":"Solange Peters, Petros Grivas, Christophe Massard, Sara M Tolaney, Michel Obeid","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01188-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01188-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have reshaped cancer therapy both as monotherapy and in combination. However, these drug classes have toxicity profiles that, despite arising from different biological mechanisms, often converge on the same organs. Given that ICI-ADC combinations are moving into earlier lines of treatment, including curative-intent settings, clinicians increasingly face overlapping pulmonary, hepatic, gastrointestinal and cutaneous adverse events with uncertain attribution, and the management of toxicities during the acute event and subsequent treatment resumption and the management of rechallenge after toxicity resolution remain variable. In this Review, we propose a unified, mechanism-informed framework that links three interacting layers: immune activation, payload cytotoxicity and payload-independent effects (from target, platform and host-related determinants). We compare organ-level patterns across major payload classes, highlight consistent organ signatures and provide practical algorithms for evaluation, initial management and treatment resumption in patients receiving ADC monotherapy or ICI-ADC combinations. Finally, we propose minimum reporting standards to harmonize toxicity phenotyping and enable cross-trial comparisons, biomarker discovery and the development of safer regimens.</p>","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148631059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hira Mian, Luciano J Costa, Mohamad Mohty, Alfred Garfall, S Vincent Rajkumar
{"title":"De-escalation trials in multiple myeloma: past, present and future.","authors":"Hira Mian, Luciano J Costa, Mohamad Mohty, Alfred Garfall, S Vincent Rajkumar","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01186-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01186-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>De-escalation of therapy constitutes a new phase in the development of therapeutic approaches for patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and is aimed at maintaining durable disease control while reducing the toxicity and burden associated with prolonged treatment. Given that increasingly effective agents, including immunotherapies, are now used earlier in the course of MM, we must assess not only how much therapy is needed to enable a clinical response but also how much is required to sustain it. In this Review, we synthesize emerging evidence supporting multiple de-escalation strategies, including dose and schedule modification, withdrawal of individual agents from multidrug regimens, fixed-duration approaches with treatment-free intervals, minimal residual disease-adapted strategies, omission of autologous stem cell transplantation and single infusion of chimeric antigen receptor T cells. We highlight how contemporary trials are beginning to define the patient populations and treatment components most amenable to de-escalation while exposing ongoing uncertainties and challenges, including those relating to monitoring strategies, re-treatment criteria and feasibility. Finally, we discuss methodological and implementation challenges including end point selection, clinical trial design, integration of correlative translational research, funding models and the involvement of key stakeholders required to translate de-escalation approaches from concept to a clinical trial and, eventually, routine clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148620807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic cigarettes, smoking and lung cancer risk: some evidence about the continuum of harm.","authors":"Peter G Shields","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01192-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01192-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148605495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Klaus Pantel, Doryan Masmoudi, Catherine Alix-Panabières
{"title":"Towards liquid biopsy-based analysis of antitumour immunity.","authors":"Klaus Pantel, Doryan Masmoudi, Catherine Alix-Panabières","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01181-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01181-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of tissue biopsy samples is the gold-standard approach to cancer diagnosis and patient selection for biomarker-guided therapies. Although spatial analyses of tumour tissue can provide important insights into local antitumour immune responses, repeated tumour biopsy is invasive and rarely feasible for monitoring dynamic immune responses over time. Technical advances have enabled multimodal analyses of cells and cellular products in peripheral blood samples, which can be obtained easily and repeatedly over the course of the disease. These liquid biopsy-based approaches cannot provide spatial information on the tumour immune microenvironment and tumour-derived material can be highly diluted in the circulation, yet they offer a unique opportunity to monitor systemic immune dynamics, anticipate responses to immunotherapies and detect emerging resistance to treatment. Thus, blood-based analyses might complement tumour tissue analysis. In this Review, we discuss insights on systemic antitumour immune responses that can be gained through the analysis of tumour-derived biomarkers in peripheral blood and/or circulating immune cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148584697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does OptiTROP-Lung05 open a new frontier for first-line ADC-ICI combinations in NSCLC?","authors":"Myung-Ju Ahn","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01183-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-026-01183-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":78.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossover does not confound, it informs: 177lutetium-PSMA-617 as an example","authors":"Martin W. Schoen, Tito Fojo, Johann de Bono","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01182-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-026-01182-7","url":null,"abstract":"Crossover in trials should not be viewed as confounding, but as informative. Crossover reveals whether deferring therapy produces outcomes comparable to those from earlier use. Statistical crossover-adjustment methods carry unaccounted biases and limited clinical utility. Crossover should instead guide treatment-sequencing decisions, weighing toxicity and cost against any overall survival benefit from earlier intervention.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"23 9","pages":"652-653"},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148459493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of ciltacabtagene autoleucel in multiple myeloma has just begun","authors":"Maximilian Merz, Nico Gagelmann","doi":"10.1038/s41571-026-01184-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-026-01184-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"23 9","pages":"730-731"},"PeriodicalIF":94.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148441072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}