Jeanne G. Vaughn, NP, Kristina Lo, PharmD, BCOP, Jonathan Riess, MD, MS, and Ticiana Leal, MD, discuss the impact of skin toxicities when utilizing EGFR TKIs.
Michael Richardson, MD, discusses escalating uterine cancer rates among Asian Americans.
Dazhi Liu, PharmD, MS, BCOP, discusses findings from a real-world analysis of the frequency of ERBB2 and ERBB3 alterations in patients with non–small cell lung cancer and the efficacy of liquid vs tissue biopsies for detecting these alterations.
Ramez N. Eskander, MD, discusses updated data for pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced/recurrent endometrial cancer.
Jennifer K. Plichta, MD, MS, discusses key areas of interest regarding the role and optimization of genetic testing in breast cancer.
Nathaniel Myall, MD, clinical assistant professor, medicine - oncology, Stanford Medicine, discusses efficacy findings from 3 clinical trials investigating combination immunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy treatment approaches in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
Drs Lipe and Forsberg share advice for community oncologists and highlight unmet needs in the management of multiple myeloma.
Closing out their discussion on myelofibrosis management, experts from the John Theurer Cancer Center consider novel therapies under investigation and the future treatment paradigm.
Aaron Seth Rosenberg, MD, MS, discusses the emerging role of minimal residual disease to guide treatment decisions in multiple myeloma.
Derek C. Galligan, MD, discusses unmet needs in high-risk multiple myeloma.
Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, MPH, provides strategies to mitigate the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in women with breast cancer.
Pau Montesinos, MD, PhD, discusses preliminary efficacy seen with the addition of quizartinib to standard 7+3 chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD wild-type acute myeloid leukemia.
Mentoring is critically important to the development of young academic hematology/oncology trainees.
Arvind Dasari, MD, MS, presents data from the FRESCO-2 clinical trial evaluating fruquintinib in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer, and provides insights on the clinical implications of the results.
Margaret von Mehren, MD, discusses outcomes with ribociclib and everolimus in dedifferentiated liposarcoma, as seen in the phase 2 SAR-096 trial.
Syed A. Abutalib, MD, associate medical director, Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses recent updates in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Myrto Moutafi, MD, MSc, discusses the results of a study evaluating biomarkers of resistance in non–small cell lung cancer.
Alexander J. Lazar, MD, PhD, discusses the current state of diagnosis and treatment in desmoid tumors.
Jason Romancik, MD, discusses efforts to maximize the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy in non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Julia Blanter, MD, discusses the risk of developing distant metastases after initial breast cancer diagnosis among Black vs White women.
Naseema Gangat, MBBS, on evolution of JAK inhibitors for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis.
Shruti Tiwari, MD, discusses efforts to address unmet needs through ongoing research in HER2-positive and HER2-low breast cancer.
December 14, 2020 - Immunotherapy agents have shown efficacy in malignant melanoma, kidney cancer, and non–small cell lung cancer, and investigators are examining the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors in less immunogenic tumors such as colon cancer, particularly in tumors with high microsatellite instability and deficient mismatch repair genes.
Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announces several leadership changes, including a new Deputy Director, Associate Directors of Translational Research and Shared Resources, and a Deputy Associate Director of Shared Resources.
Danielle K. DePalo, MD, discusses findings from a study comparing first-line isolated limb infusion/perfusion vs immune checkpoint inhibitors and intratumoral therapy in patients with surgically unresectable melanoma in-transit metastases.
Steven Maron, MD, MSc, discusses the role of PD-1 inhibition in esophagogastric cancer.