#ASCO26
This one is special.
This is the hottest paper of 2026 and potentially in the history of pancreatic cancer.
Let’s dive in.
RASolute 302: Daraxonrasib vs investigator’s choice chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer
Abstract LBA5 (soon!)
Presentation: May 31, 2026, 3:21-3:33 PM CDT
For decades, pancreatic cancer has been where good ideas go to die.
We have optimized chemotherapy. We have sequenced chemotherapy. We have celebrated modest gains.
But the central driver of PDAC has always been sitting there in plain sight:
RAS.
More than 90% of pancreatic cancers have oncogenic RAS mutations, and until recently, we had essentially nothing direct to do about it.
Daraxonrasib is an oral RAS(ON) multiselective inhibitor targeting the active GTP-bound state of mutant and wild-type RAS.
And in RASolute 302, it delivered.
Quick hits:
📌 Phase 3 international randomized trial 500 patients with previously treated mPDAC Daraxonrasib vs investigator’s choice chemotherapy
🧬 RAS G12 population
91.8% of patients had RAS G12 mutations
📈 OS in RAS G12 population
13.2 vs 6.6 months
HR 0.40
P<0.001
📈 OS in overall population
13.2 vs 6.7 months
HR 0.40
P<0.001
📊 PFS in RAS G12 population
7.3 vs 3.5 months
HR 0.45
P<0.001
📊 PFS in overall population
7.2 vs 3.6 months
HR 0.49
P<0.001
🔥 12-month OS
Overall population: 53.2% vs 17.3%
⚠️ Toxicity matters, but this was not just more efficacy for more toxicity
Grade ≥3 AEs: 61.8% vs 69.6%
TRAEs leading to discontinuation: 1.2% vs 11.2%
This is the kind of survival curve we almost never get to see in pancreatic cancer.
This validates RAS(ON) inhibition in the most RAS-addicted major cancer. It takes a target we have talked about for decades and turns it into a clinically meaningful survival benefit in a randomized phase 3 trial.
The next questions come fast: 1L combinations, maintenance, perioperative disease, sequencing, resistance, toxicity management, and whether this becomes a new backbone.
RAS is here, and it couldn’t have come sooner.
https://t.co/Y4WJRlRRTk
@TheGutonclab@UGrewalMD@TimothyJBrownMD@OncoAlert@Onco_Nexus@ASCO@NazliDizman@LauraAlderMD@DVAraujoMD@DrBarbiOnc@LauraEsfeller@FunchainMD@YGaritaonaindia@DrSAHaddad@jgong15@iandresmeraz@SakditadMD@RamilaShilpakar@RohitBanwar@lungoncdoc
Cheers, chills, and a standing ovation when RASolute 302 showed unprecedented survival on daraxonrasib for patients with progressive pancreatic cancer
Seldom do you sense you’re witnessing a historic moment in cancer care but this feels like ras targeting has arrived
#ASCO26
Fire Emblem Awakening is 14 years old!
Awakening saved the series. If it didn't sell above 250,000 units, Nintendo was reportedly going to retire Fire Emblem.
It ended up selling ~2m units. Every Fire Emblem since has sold at least 1m with Three Houses selling ~5m.
I cannot do graphics design to save my life but hear, hear! Skeb cms at VGen, last 8 slots priced at $50!
I'll have to raise my prices after this because of economy things going SUPER downhill, BUT I will open more non-skeb options once the slots cleared out.
RTs appreciated!
Medical horror level: 10/10. 🤯
Imagine dying not because you got cancer, but because your tapeworm did.
A @NEJM case report documented a man whose Hymenolepis nana parasite developed malignant stem cells. These tapeworm cancer cells then metastasized into the human host's lungs and lymph nodes.
It’s the first known case of a parasite "sharing" its cancer with a human. Medicine is officially stranger than fiction