Precision Medicine in Oncology®

As director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Thomas J. Lynch Jr, MD, wears many hats. And, having built a career united around two abiding goals of clinical discovery and personalized patient care, that's just the way he likes it.

Jonathan Ledermann, BSc, MD, FRCP, Professor of Medical Oncology in the UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, discusses health-related quality of life during olaparib maintenance therapy in patients with platinum-sensitive relapsed serous ovarian cancer and a BRCA mutation.

All patients with metastatic colorectal cancer should undergo RAS mutation testing to ensure optimal patient selection for EGFR inhibitor therapy.

More than one-third of patients with breast or ovarian cancer or a family history of those diseases who also saw a genetic counselor did not pursue genetic testing for BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutations.

Tadd Lazarus, MD, Chief Medical Officer, QIAGEN, provides an overview of companion diagnostics.

Numerous epidemiological factors affect the likelihood of developing breast and ovarian cancer, but no other predictor is as powerful as an inherited mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, genes involved in both tumor suppression and DNA repair.

High pretreatment levels of serum VEGF-A and TGF-β1 indicated significantly worse disease-free survival (DFS) following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Oncologists Need Guideposts for Recommending Drugs Not Studied in Cancers

Experts Touch On Oncotype DX, Other Assays During Peer Exchange

How can a conscientious but very busy practitioner keep up with the massive quantity of molecular data that could potentially impact an individual patient with cancer? The Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego has updated the tumor board concept for the molecular era.

Although prostate cancer (PC) is the most common solid tumor malignancy among men in the Western Hemisphere, disease-specific mortality remains low, primarily due to optimized screening, diagnosis, and treatment.

James CH Yang, MD, PhD, from the National Taiwan University Hospital, discusses the future of lung cancer treatment.

The PARP inhibitor veliparib exhibits antitumor activity and is safe and tolerable on a continuous dosing schedule when used for the treatment of patients with BRCA-positive and BRCA-wild type tumors.

The promise of personalized medicine in cancer will only be met once physicians have both the arsenal of therapeutics they need and a more complete understanding of genomic tumor profiles.

The actress Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA1 gene mutation-associated with an increased risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer-apparently sparked an "Angelina effect" on public health.

Claudine Isaacs, MD, professor, medical director, Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, co-director, Breast Cancer Program, Georgetown University/Lombardi Cancer Center, discusses the importance of genetic counseling and the role of the genetic counselor

Robert Petit, PhD, the chief scientific officer at Advaxis, provides insight into the ADXS-PSA immunotherapy and the rationale behind the combination study with pembrolizumab.