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Great Debates & Updates in Solid Tumors 2026

A debate-format CME meeting from the Oncology Learning Network — New York, NY, Sept 26–27, 2026. Physicians argued both sides of live debates spanning tumor-agnostic therapy, lung, GI, neuroendocrine, and GU cancers — captured here in their own words.

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Tweets Captured
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Debate Tracks
New York, NY · Sept 26–27, 2026
Many of these debates continue at ESMO 2026, Madrid Oct 23–27 →

Should Every Solid Tumor Get a Tissue-Agnostic Shot?

Vivek Subbiah, MD (Stanford Cancer Institute) opened Great Debates with a case for expanding tumor-agnostic drug approvals — and closed with a call to action on precision-medicine access. The debate that followed: is the science ready even where the testing infrastructure isn't? — 7 tweets, 11.2K impressions.

@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
Great opening lecture for @OLNGreatDebates from @VivekSubbiah re: the need for increasing #tumor agnostic approval for improved access. #cancer #cancerresearch #GDUS2026 https://t.co/0hysbueRS3
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@VivekSubbiah
Vivek Subbiah, MD @VivekSubbiah
⭐️Kicked off the opening plenary at Great Debates in Solid Tumors today in NYC @OLNGreatDebates 🌧️☔️Even the rain helped keeping a full house engaged on a Saturday in Times Sqaure NY, so they could all be engaged in a powerful call to advance tumor‑agnostic precision medicine. ⭐️The Q&A turned out to be on the hottest issues & showed just how ready the field is to accelerate. ⭐️Huge thanks to the organizers & for the invite & @CathyEngMD for the moderation, an amazing session all around @YJanjigianMD @lungoncdoc @OncoAlert @oncodaily
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@lungoncdoc
Eric K. Singhi, MD @lungoncdoc
“Don’t guess. We need the NGS.” Powerful plenary at #GreatDebates this morning from the one & only @VivekSubbiah on advancing precision oncology through tumor-agnostic therapies. And he brought it all home with a beautiful patient story. https://t.co/bmbWDWKt9P
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates Plenary starting now with @VivekSubbiah @StanfordCancer a leader on tumor agnostic therapies providing the history of tumor agnostic drug devt and the gaps in knowledge and access. He also shared an impactful patient story of a pancreatic cancer survivor RET+ w a 7 yr response to #selpercatinib @OLNGreatDebates
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates @VivekSubbiah leaves us with a Call To Action and a vision for #PrecisionMedicine drug development highlighting the role of collaboration and building “molecular fluency” in clinical practice @OLNGreatDebates https://t.co/UP8As034hy
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@ParkLover_JA
Jordan FatCat @ParkLover_JA
@VivekSubbiah @OLNGreatDebates @montypal @neerajaiims @chadinabhan @PGrivasMDPhD @GlopesMd @shilpaonc @StephenVLiu @DrChoueiri My take: tissue-agnostic approvals only matter if testing reaches the patients. NTRK fusions are still missed far too often. The science is ready, the infrastructure isn't. Great to hear it said out loud.
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@AIZiadSaliba
Ziad Storyteller @AIZiadSaliba
@CathyEngMD @OLNGreatDebates @VivekSubbiah Tumor agnostic approvals work best when they shorten the path from biomarker result to treatment. I'd push hard on routine biomarker testing, coverage, and trial eligibility.
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Slides & Data

4 slides

Should You Rechallenge Immunotherapy After a Prior Severe Adverse Event?

The single highest-impression moment of the entire meeting. The earlier the prior severe adverse event, Cathy Eng's session found, the higher the likelihood of a repeat event on rechallenge — leaving open exactly which patients can safely go back on checkpoint inhibition. — 2 tweets, 12.9K impressions.

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1L EGFR+ Therapy, Perioperative Chemo-IO & Oligoprogression: The Lung Cancer Debates

Three separate head-to-head debates: monotherapy vs. combination for 1L EGFR+ disease (Helena Yu vs. the lung cancer voice behind @lungoncdoc), preoperative vs. perioperative chemoimmunotherapy in resectable NSCLC (Jamie Chaft), and whether local ablative therapy adds a survival advantage in oligoremnant disease (Chinmay Jani vs. Sarah Goldberg on the oligoprogression/oligoremnant distinction). — 18 tweets, 9.1K impressions.

@VivekSubbiah
Vivek Subbiah, MD @VivekSubbiah
@lungoncdoc Thank you @lungoncdoc ! Yes- you know this lung cancer mantra very well. But we need it for ALL cancers. “Don’t guess. Don’t wait. Do the NGS. For every cancer.”
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
✈️ Made it to the Big 🍎 NYC for @OLNGreatDebates, starting tomorrow, Sept 26–27! My 2nd chance to argue that perioperative chemoimmunotherapy is better than preoperative therapy alone—this time against Dr. Jamie Chaft @MSKCancerCenter . 🥊 Let the best argument win! 🎤 #OLNGreatDebates @SylvesterCancer
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
Great to meet again with @VivekSubbiah and @lungoncdoc at #OLNGreatDebates in NYC! 🙌 It’s always a great day when you get to reconnect with oncologists who are making their mark and advancing the field. Grateful for the conversations, collaboration, and friendship! 🫶🏽 @OLNGreatDebates @SylvesterCancer
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
It’s the 🙌 @univmiami @HemOncMiami fellows in NYC representing and supporting our newest @SylvesterCancer faculty @Jani_Chinmay debating Dr Sarah Goldberg @YaleCancer on role of local radiation on oligometastatic #lungcancer @OLNGreatDebates https://t.co/6YuQZxsrHW
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
Good morning New York🗽. The city that never sleeps…Here for the last day of @OLNGreatDebates . I will be moderating session of 1L EGFR therapies with @JSabari and @JuliaRotow . Looking forward to a great discussion! https://t.co/4q6gRSA4dk
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates Up next Dr Helena Yu @MSKCancerCenter argues that risk stratified therapy is the best strategy for #EGFR+ #lungcancer: favor monotherapy vs combination regimens . 👉🏽CNS Mets and lack of CtDNA Clearance - high risk 👉🏽balance QOL/ toxicity and efficacy. #lcsm @EGFRResisters @OLNGreatDebates
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates @lungoncdoc wins the debate 🏆 and leaves us with 4 questions about 1L EGFR+ #lungcancer https://t.co/kMLhX1bEDZ
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
🔥 #OLNGreatDebates @lungoncdoc @UTMDAnderson holds his own debating Dr. Helena Yu on 1L EGFR+ #LungCancer! His take: combination regimens—chemo + osimertinib and amivantamab + lazertinib—should be preferred based on survival benefit and CNS activity, with toxicity managed through proactive mitigation strategies. #LCSM @OLNGreatDebates
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates Dr Sarah Goldberg @YaleCancer clarifies terms (oligoprogression va oligoremnant) and makes the case and wins debate 🏆that there is still a role of local ablative therapies in select cases even in those w good systemic options ( EGFR, ALK) @OLNGreatDebates https://t.co/Bknch3DZpp
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates @JuliaRotow @DanaFarber gives a rapid update of advances in rare mutations—EGFR, ALK, RET, KRAS—and highlights the growing complexity of sequencing, new therapies, and optimal genomic profiling. 🔬🧬 @OLNGreatDebates #LCSM https://t.co/gDrOxbWIaP
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates @Jani_Chinmay makes the case that local ablative therapies in oligoremnant disease do not add survival advantage when systemic therapies are effective based on clinical trials so far. 👉🏽Patient factors and type of therapy matter @OLNGreatDebates https://t.co/7duWS0LN3u
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@OncoAdvLukas
Lukas Jäger-Meister @OncoAdvLukas
@Latinamd @OLNGreatDebates @MSKCancerCenter @Jani_Chinmay @GlopesMd Viel Erfolg tomorrow!!! 🙏 Perioperative chemoimmunotherapy vs preoperative alone is one of the most relevant questions in early-stage NSCLC right now. Bin sehr gespannt auf das Duell! 🥊 #OLNGreatDebates
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@nbn426
Neil Newman @nbn426
@Latinamd @univmiami @HemOncMiami @SylvesterCancer @Jani_Chinmay @YaleCancer @OLNGreatDebates @GlopesMd I want details on this one
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@VivekSubbiah
Vivek Subbiah, MD @VivekSubbiah
@Latinamd @lungoncdoc @Latinamd thanks for attending the lecture & thanks for the amazing question on RAS inhibitor in Lung cancer.
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@Latinamd
Dr. Estela Rodriguez @Latinamd
#OLNGreatDebates @JuliaRotow doesn’t take a breath and goes over all the advances in rare mutations EGFR, ALK, RET, KRAS in less than 30 minutes. Highlighting the complexity of sequencing w newer drugs and optimal genomic profiling. @OLNGreatDebates #lcsm https://t.co/gkPcwymx98
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@OncoAdvLukas
Lukas Jäger-Meister @OncoAdvLukas
@Latinamd @YaleCancer @OLNGreatDebates Spannend! NorthStar shows ~8 months PFS benefit with LCT after osimertinib induction, and I think select patients clearly benefit even with great systemic options now. How do you see ctDNA guiding patient selection here? #OLNGreatDebates
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@dominicandoc2
Abner Antonio Murray, MD PhD @dominicandoc2
@Latinamd @MSKCancerCenter @Jani_Chinmay @GlopesMd Fantastic debate! And great win in the 4th quarter!
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@EuphrosMD
Fourth Grace @EuphrosMD
@Latinamd @MSKCancerCenter @EGFRResisters @OLNGreatDebates What I keep coming back to: the hard part isn't the median. It's which patient pays the toxicity cost for a benefit they may never individually see. #lcsm #EGFR +
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Slides & Data

6 slides

Gastroesophageal Regimens, Pancreatic RAS Inhibitors & Liver-Directed Therapy: The GI Debates

Co-chaired by Cathy Eng, MD and Yelena Janjigian, MD, the GI track ran three debates: a gastroesophageal treatment-strategy face-off (Janjigian vs. Sam Klempner), whether RAS inhibitors are ready as standard of care in pancreatic cancer (Efrat Dotan vs. Olatunji Alese), and whether adjuvant hepatic arterial infusion after liver resection is worth its added toxicity (Sepideh Gholami vs. Kevin Soares). — 10 tweets, 6.2K impressions.

@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
Day 1: @OLNGreatDebates What a way to start! The amazing @YJanjigianMD vs the wonderful @KlempnerSam! I wonder who will win this debate?!! #cancer #cancerresearch #GDUS2026 https://t.co/suQhZ2VnKr
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@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
Jovial and educational debate between @sepideh_gholami and @KevinCSoaresMD! Guess who won? @OLNGreatDebates #cancer #cancerresearch Great discussion and questions! https://t.co/MYyZnb5SVR
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@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
The last #GI debate begins with @efratdotan @TunjiAleseMD @OLNGreatDebates re: role of #RAS inhibitors as a standard of care in #pancreatic #cancer, @RevMedicines https://t.co/O2uafZqiul
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@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
It’s a wrap for the #GI session @OLNGreatDebates. My co-chair @YJanjigianMD and I want to introduce you to the amazing 🤩, Sarah Moore, who is the woman behind the scene at @OLNGreatDebates! She is wonderful and keeps us afloat! 🙏🏻 Sarah!!! TY to all of our phenomenal speakers that rallied despite the Nor’easter ☔️ We hope you will join us again for #GreatDebates 2027! #cancer #canceresearch
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@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
@TunjiAleseMD @efratdotan ended the debate on very pleasant terms! Great perspectives! Learned so much! 👏@OLNGreatDebates #pancreatic #cancer https://t.co/WaqdWQeIoy https://t.co/Av9fqB8N9U
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@CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
@rutikamehtaMD @YJanjigianMD @nyulangone @Perlmutter_CC ALWAYS a pleasure to have you speak at @OLNGreatDebates #UGI @nyulangone @YJanjigianMD
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@sophlowkey9
sofi s, @sophlowkey9
@CathyEngMD @OLNGreatDebates @YJanjigianMD @KlempnerSam @MSKCancerCenter @MassGenBrigham So real
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@TheQueenVee
Vanessa Ghigliotty @TheQueenVee
@CathyEngMD @OLNGreatDebates @YJanjigianMD @KlempnerSam @MSKCancerCenter @MassGenBrigham 2 Powerhouses!!! Must have been amazing 👏
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@CheSturridge
Che Sturridge @CheSturridge
Such a Great Format @OLNGreatDebates to learn the “ Why & Why Not?” This one had all the intrigue of Tyson vs Holyfield if they were GI Oncology KOLs @efratdotan @TunjiAleseMD & no Championship bout is complete without @CathyEngMD &@YJanjigianMD keeping order in the ring ! https://t.co/cQFgZxdPdT
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@TunjiAleseMD
Olatunji Alese @TunjiAleseMD
Even though I “lost” the debate, it was so much fun! @OLNGreatDebates thanks for inviting me. And kudos to excellent moderation by @CathyEngMD @YJanjigianMD https://t.co/aAFCKqyUrl
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Slides & Data

2 slides

DLL3-Targeted T-Cell Engagers Take the Stage in Neuroendocrine Tumors

Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH walked through early, promising DLL3 T-cell engagers and antibody-drug conjugates in neuroendocrine and extrapulmonary neuroendocrine cancer — one of the newest mechanisms discussed at the meeting. — 5 tweets, 3.7K impressions.

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A 50/50 Split on First-Line mRCC, and Shifting Ground in MIBC

Two debates: a first-line metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment-strategy debate that the audience vote split exactly 50/50, and a look at how muscle-invasive bladder cancer management continues to shift with biomarker-driven approaches. — 2 tweets, 406 impressions.

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2 slides

Moments from Two Days in New York

The smaller-format, conversation-driven feel that repeat attendees called out as the meeting's defining strength. — 3 tweets, 93 impressions.

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Top Social Media Voices

Ranked by total impressions across all captured tweets from the meeting.

#1 @CathyEngMD
Dr. Cathy Eng @CathyEngMD
15.5K 12 tweets
#2 @Latinamd
5.8K 13 tweets
#3 @VivekSubbiah
Vivek Subbiah, MD @VivekSubbiah
4.0K 3 tweets
#4 @lungoncdoc
Eric K. Singhi, MD @lungoncdoc
1.9K 1 tweet
#5 @SaadAtiq24
Saad Atiq @SaadAtiq24
211 2 tweets
#6 @nbn426
Neil Newman @nbn426
138 1 tweet
#7 @RenoHemonc
Santhosh Ambika @RenoHemonc
61 1 tweet
#8 @FionnualaCrowle
Fionnuala Crowley @FionnualaCrowle
53 1 tweet
#9 @dominicandoc2
26 2 tweets
#10 @TunjiAleseMD
Olatunji Alese @TunjiAleseMD
6 1 tweet

Data captured from public X (formerly Twitter) posts mentioning or discussing the meeting. KOL Pulse is not affiliated with the Oncology Learning Network or Great Debates & Updates in Solid Tumors.