Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Research, Including Organoids and Ablation
March 29th 2024In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss research efforts being made with organoids to address existing questions with immunotherapy and the exploration of multimodality approaches to improve outcomes.
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Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Assays for Early Detection and Prevention
March 29th 2024In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts explain the challenges faced with preventing or detecting these cancers early and the understanding needed to develop effective early detection methods and move the needle forward.
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Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Is Multicancer Early Detection Becoming a Reality?
March 29th 2024In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss the potential for early detection multiomic assays and the work that still needs to be done to encourage their widespread use.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Looking to the Future
October 10th 2023In this final episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, reiterate that the role of endoscopic therapies in pancreatic cancer continues to evolve.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Additional Studies Are Needed
September 26th 2023In this fifth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, underscore the need for additional research evaluating the role of radiofrequency ablation and other approaches in pancreatic cancer, and avenues that are ripe for further exploration.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: The Promise of Radiofrequency Ablation
September 19th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss what is known about the utilization of endoscopic radiofrequency ablation in nonmetastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and the potential for this approach in the paradigm.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Utilizing Genetic Testing Results
September 12th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, share how they would best utilize genetic testing results obtained from endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Finding Actionable Mutations
September 5th 2023In this second episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss the techniques used such as endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies to collect adequate tissue to perform genomic analyses in pancreatic cancer, and the likelihood for finding actionable mutations in this population.
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Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: From Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment
August 29th 2023In this first episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss how endoscopic ultrasound has changed the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and how it may also be utilized to guide personalized treatment in nonmetastatic adenocarcinomas.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Looking to the Future
July 26th 2023In this seventh episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss the data that are still needed to inform optimal utilization of multicancer early detection tests and their potential cost effectiveness.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Takeaways From the ECLIPSE Trial
July 19th 2023In this sixth episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss important takeaways from the ECLIPSE study (NCT04136002), which evaluated a cell-free DNA blood-based test for colorectal cancer in an average-risk population.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Lessons Learned From PATHFINDER
July 12th 2023In this fifth episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, walk through the key lessons learned from the prospective, multicenter PATHINDER study (NCT04241796), which evaluated a multicancer early detection test developed by GRAIL.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Existing Concerns
July 5th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss existing concerns regarding multicancer early detection tests.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Need for a Multidisciplinary Clinic
June 28th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, underscore the need for a multidisciplinary clinic to appropriately interpret multicancer early detection test results.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Research Efforts Under Way
June 21st 2023In this second episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss some of the challenges faced with randomized control trials and 2 efforts underway that are slated to provide revelatory data on these assays.
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Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Overview and Call for RCTs
June 14th 2023In this first episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, provide an overview on multicancer early detection tests and the need for randomized clinical trials to further explore their use.
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Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Ongoing Research
April 27th 2023In this seventh episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, discuss ongoing research such as the PASS-01 trial (NCT04469556) in pancreatic cancer and ways to translate advances in the metastatic setting to the curative setting.
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In this fifth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, provide insight into some of the regulatory challenges of organoid development and share expectations for the future of pharmacotyping in treatment selection.
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In this fifth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, review the potential advantages of using endoscopic ultrasound to enhance current molecular diagnostic techniques in pancreatic cancer.
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In this fourth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, shed light on the process of obtaining sufficient tissue through endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies to generate organoids.
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Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Organoid Collection
April 13th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, highlight the three ways in which an organoid can be used to aid clinical sequencing and treatment selection in pancreatic cancer.
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In this second episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, provide an overview of patient-derived organoids and pharmacotyping in locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
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In this first episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, discuss the involvement of the gastroenterologist from diagnosis to palliative care in the management of patients with pancreatic cancer.
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Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: An Evolving Field
April 5th 2023In this seventh episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, discuss the convergence of gastroenterology and interventional gastroenterology in gastrointestinal cancer management and the future of interventional endoscopy.
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Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: Efforts to Advance the Field
March 31st 2023In this sixth episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, share efforts to increase awareness around endoscopy in gastrointestinal cancer.
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Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: Endoscopic Oncology and Existing Barriers
March 29th 2023In this fifth episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, review the potential role for endoscopic ablation in gastrointestinal cancer.
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Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: Endoscopic Cancer Resection
March 24th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, provide insight on the use of endoscopic submucosal resection and endoscopic evaluation for tumor response as it pertains to organ preservation in gastrointestinal cancer.
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