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Kevin R. Loughlin, MD, MBA
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Surgical Challenges and Opportunities in Treating Penile Cancer

Kevin R. Loughlin, MD, MBA, discusses the diagnosis, staging, and management of penile cancer.

Kevin W. Su, BS
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Changes in Prostate Cancer Presentation for Radiation Oncology Care

USPSTF guidelines may have decreased the number of patients presenting with prostate cancer for radiation oncology care, particularly those with low-risk disease, without a short-term increase in higher-risk disease.

Kevin Wright
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Pembrolizumab Plus Chemoradiation Therapy Yields Promising Results for Patients with Unresectable, Locally Advanced NSCLC

January 29, 2021 - The combination of pembrolizumab plus concurrent chemoradiation therapy showed antitumor activity in patients with unresectable, locally advanced, stage III non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of PD-L1 status or tumor histology.

Kim Farina, PhD
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Is Our Healthcare System Ready to Integrate Cancer Care?

In response to the billions of dollars wasted each year in the United States on fragmented, ineffective, and uncoordinated care, some healthcare reform efforts have focused on integrating the delivery of healthcare.

Kim-Hien T. Dao, DO, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University
Kimberly Blackwell, MD, Duke Cancer Institute
Kimberly L. Blackwell, MD, Duke
Kimberly L. Blackwell, MD, Duke Cancer Institute
Kimberly L. Blackwell, MD, Duke University Medical Center
Kimberly L. Blackwell, MD, Duke University School of Medicine
Klaus Podar, MD, PhD
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Updates on Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies

Progress in our understanding of multiple myeloma pathogenesis has led to the identification of new therapeutic targets.

Komal Jhaveri, MD, FACP, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Krisha J. Howell, MD
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Fresh Approaches to RT Improve Outcomes in Retroperitoneal Sarcoma

Each year, 10% to 15% of patients with soft-tissue carcinomas receive a diagnosis of rare retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS), an aggressive disease that typically recurs in 26% of cases and has a 47% to 67% five-year overall survival rate. New radiation therapies hold potential to decrease treatment time and provide local control of RPS.

Krishna V. Komanduri, MD, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Kristen Ganjoo, MD, Stanford University Medical Center
Kristi Rosa
Kristi Rosa

Associate Editorial Director, OncLive®
Kristi Rosa joined MJH Life Sciences in 2016 and has since held several positions within the company. She helped launch the rapidly growing infectious disease news resource Contagion, strengthened the Rare Disease Report, of HCPLive, and now oversees OncLive and its flagship publication OncologyLive. Prior to working at the company, she served as lead copywriter and marketing coordinator at The Strand Theater. Email: [email protected]

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Iza-Bren Improves Survival in Unresectable, Locally Advanced or Metastatic TNBC

Iza-bren improved PFS, OS, and response rates vs chemotherapy in pretreated metastatic TNBC, indicating a potential new standard of care.

Kristin Anderson, PhD
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Paying It Forward in Oncology: A Journey From Patient to Investigator

Kristin Anderson, PhD, shares her journey from patient to investigator.

Kristin Higgins, MD, Emory Healthcare
Kristin Rojas, MD
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Turning the Tide on Opioid Prescribing Practices

As evidence grows that opioids may potentially worsen oncologic outcomes, surgeons and oncology providers must take an active role in addressing the opioid crisis by adopting similar protocols that decrease the quantity of narcotics available for diversion while ensuring safe patient care.

Krithika Subramanian, PhD
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TILs Show Growing Potential as Novel Immunotherapy

Although checkpoint-blocking antibodies dominate the anticancer immunotherapy field today, researchers are increasingly exploring the potential to leverage growing knowledge about tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to develop new drugs.

Krystal Knapp
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The Great Biomarker Chase: Promise & Pitfalls Along the Path to Personalized Care

Biomarkers offer great potential for improving management of cancer at every point from screening and detection, to diagnosis, staging, prognosis, and the assessment of treatment response.

Krystal Knapp, Ben Leach
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The Year's New Drugs: Integrating Advances of 2011 Into Treatment Plans

The FDA approved more new oncology drugs in 2011 than it has in a single year in more than a decade, thanks in part to priority review and streamlined evaluation procedures. While this is good news for patients, oncology and hematology specialists must tackle the challenges posed by integrating new therapies into treatment plans. Leading specialists give their perspectives on key issues.

Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG
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Proposed Trial Would Be First Ever for Novel Two-Pronged Immunotherapy Strategy

Roswell Park Cancer Institute is taking the final steps toward what we believe would be the first-ever clinical trial combining two novel and highly promising techniques: adoptive cellular therapy utilizing re-engineered mature T cells and re-engineered adult hematopoietic stem cells.

Kuo Bianchini Tong, MS
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Cost-Effectiveness of 70-Gene MammaPrint Signature in Node-Negative Breast Cancer

Breast cancers with similar clinicopathologic characteristics may have strikingly different outcomes.

Kurt Ullman
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Practice Benchmark Report Offers Hope for Survival of Independent Oncology Practices

The narrowing difference between operating cost and total medical revenue has eased, buying some time for practices to adjust their business models and perhaps survive.

Lalan Wilfong, MD
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Dr Wilfong on the Potential Use of AI Prediction Models to Improve Palliative Care in Oncology

Lalan Wilfong, MD, expands on the value of AI prediction models for consensus on patient prognosis and better end-of-life care in oncology.

Lane Rosen
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Reduce Costs By Using Less Radiotherapy

Radiation therapy remains fertile for continued technological innovation that can improve patient outcomes, but of the newest technologies may be practical for only the largest institutions.

Larry Kestin MD
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Daily and Cumulative Dose Recalculation and in Vivo Verification for Helical TomoTherapy: Multicenter Validation

Rapid advances in the technological development of precise and conformal radiation therapy and its incorporation into the clinic have generally outpaced our ability to test these technologies in a clinical trial format.

Laura Bruck
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A Life Redirected: Pursuing a Nursing Career After Osteosarcoma

In the summer of 2010, 20-year-old physical therapy student Hannah Komai was diagnosed with low-grade osteosarcoma after an incisional biopsy.

Laura Jones