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Adam M. Brufsky, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Adam M. Brufsky, MD, UPMC
Adan M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center
Adi Diab, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adil Daud, MD, University of California Medical Center
Adrienne Hill, DO
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Impairment-Driven Cancer Rehabilitation Improves Survivors' Quality of Life

The lack of comprehensive rehabilitation services is a profound source of unnecessary suffering for survivors.

Ahmad Awada, MD, PhD, Jules Bordet Institute
Ahmad Halwani, MD
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It's Time to Tackle the Evidence Gap in Lymphoid Cancers

Although CLL is the most common chronic leukemia, there remains no single agreed-upon standard of care for first-line treatment.

Ahmed A. Hussein Aly, MD, PhD
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TRT in Patients With Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance: Are We Really Putting Gas on Fire?

Investigators hypothesized that testosterone replacement does not have a negative impact on the oncologic outcomes of treatment-naive patients with prostate cancer on surveillance and they performed a retrospective review of an institutional active surveillance prostate cancer database.

Ahmed Kaseb, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Aileen M. Soper, BA
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NOW Initiative: Payer & Provider Collaborations in Oncology Benefits Management

Payers recognize the need to expand benefits management for oncology but struggle to find effective solutions amid the complexity of available therapies and skepticism from oncologists, who are facing their own set of economic pressures. The National Oncology Working Group (NOW) Initiative is trying to change the sometimes adversarial relationship between payers and oncologists through a collaborative model.

Ajai Chari, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ajai Chari, MD, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Ajay K. Gopal, MD, FACP, of Fred Hutch cancer Center
Ajay K. Gopal, MD, FACP

Ajay K. Gopal, MD, FACP, is the medical director for Hematology, Malignancies/Hematology, the clinical research director for the Lymphoma Program and an professor in the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutch Cancer Center; professor of Hematology and Oncology in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and the Stephen Hans Petersdorf, MD, Endowed Chair in Cancer Care at the University of Washington Medicine, both located in Washington.

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Dr Gopal on the FDA Approval of Tafasitamab in R/R Follicular Lymphoma

Ajay K. Gopal, MD, FACP, discusses the significance of the FDA approval of tafasitamab for patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

Ajay V. Maker, MD, FACS
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New Strategy Boosts Microenvironment to Promote Antitumor Immunity in GI Metastases

Despite the promise of immunotherapy for treating patients with advanced cancers, the success of using such therapies for progressive gastrointestinal malignancies such as colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) has been limited so far.

Aju Mathew, MD, MPhil
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Staying Afloat When the Floodgates Open

It is quite easy to be drowned in the rising floodwaters of hematology and medical oncology, especially when you start training.

Akhil Kumar, MD
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Targeted Therapies in Advanced Renal Cell Cancer: A Critical Review

In order to help community oncologists optimize patient outcomes, this review summarizes clinical issues associated with specific therapies and the background pivotal data.

Akshat Jain, MD, MPH’15
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International Hematology/Oncology Elective: A Unique Learning Experience

Although minor institution-specific variations exist, traditional fellowship programs in the United States are able to provide training in the sophisticated Western style of practice.

Al B. Benson III, MD, Northwestern
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Alan B. Sandler, MD, OHSU
Alan D. Winkler, MHSA, FACMPE
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Practice in South Texas Offers Vertically Integrated Cancer Care

Providing comprehensive, compassionate, cost-effective care has been the guiding principle of Urology San Antonio. The practice manages over 200,000 visits and establishes relationships with more than 22,000 new patients each year.

Alan Dove, PhD
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Healthcare IT Still Seeks a Security Blanket

August has traditionally been a sleepy month for government regulatory agencies, but this year, Washington's usual summer torpor was interrupted by a rush of new initiatives, as more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act surged into a mind- boggling range of projects.

Alan P
Alan P. Venook, MD, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Alan P. Venook, MD, University of California
Alan P. Venook, MD, University of California San Francisco
Alan Pollack, MD, PhD
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A Phase III Randomized Trial of MRI-Mapped, Dose-Escalated Salvage Radiotherapy Post-Prostatectomy: The MAPS Trial

Treating MRI-identified prostate lesions to definitive doses using an SIHB is possible without significantly increased dose or acute toxicity to critical structures

Alan T. Blank, MD, MS
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3-D Printing Technology Enhances Limb Preservation in Cancer Operations

Limb preservation is now the procedure of choice for the treatment of patients with bone cancer.