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OncLive® is proud to announce the inductees of the 2019 Giants of Cancer Care® recognition program.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, discusses the potential role of circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA testing in patients with breast cancer.

Eric S. Nadler, MD, discusses key data with immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with metastatic squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

Tagraxofusp led to a 90% overall response rate as a first-line therapy in patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm.

Kartik Konduri, MD, discusses the use of combination therapies and newer agents in patients with targetable driver mutations.

Clinical outcomes were found to be consistent among transplant-eligible patients with mantle cell lymphoma, irrespective of the chemoimmunotherapy induction regimen that was administered.

David P. Mason, MD, discusses the available treatment approaches for patients with locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Kristen Ciombor, MD, MSCI, discusses the promise of liquid biopsies in the rapidly evolving metastatic colorectal cancer paradigm and the potential implications of the COLOMATE trial.

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only Comprehensive Cancer Center as recognized by the National Cancer Institute, has been awarded a $15.1 million grant as part of its successful 2019 redesignation.

A new VENTANA HER2 dual in situ hybridization companion diagnostic assay has launched to identify HER2 amplification for patients with breast cancer and gastric cancer who could be eligible to receive trastuzumab.

Wistar’s Cancer Center became the first National Cancer Institute-designated basic cancer center in the nation in 1972 and has held this national recognition for the past 46 years.

Geoffrey Y. Ku, MD, discusses data of durvalumab plus tremelimumab in a biomarker-selected patient population and sheds light on the role of immunotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Omar Nadeem, MD, highlights exciting approaches that have emerged in relapsed/refractory myeloma, such as CAR T-cell therapy, and shares unanswered questions that future research should address.

Marcus Smith Noel, MD, discusses the early promise of SM-88 in the metastatic pancreatic cancer treatment landscape.

Paul G. Richardson, MD, highlights the many promising agents that have emerged in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in recent years, remaining challenges, and hope for continued progress.

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab in combination with axitinib for the frontline treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

The FDA has scheduled an Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee hearing for May 14, 2019, to discuss a new drug application for pexidartinib for the treatment of adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor.

Matthew S. Davids, MD, MMSc, discusses recent shifts in the chronic lymphocytic leukemia paradigm with the use of novel therapies and the need to increase personalized treatment with these agents.

Giada Bianchi, MD, discusses the scope of frontline therapy and subsequent maintenance strategies among patients with transplant eligible and ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Michael J. Overman, MD, discusses an immunotherapy combination regimen in metastatic colorectal cancer and highlights existing challenges that still need to be addressed in future research.

Mariana Chavez Mac Gregor, MD, MSc, discussex recent shifts in the treatment of patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Leonard G. Gomella, MD, underscores the need for genetic testing in prostate cancer, sheds light on important biomarkers in the space, and explains how these tests are helping oncologists facilitate a precision medicine approach.

Although biological criteria carry prognostic value in mantle cell lymphoma, initial observation based solely on clinical criteria was found to be an effective management strategy that did not compromise patient outcomes.

The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health recently welcomed Anjali Mishra, PhD, and Nitin Chakravarti, PhD, to a growing team of researchers focused on hematologic cancers.

Cindy Osborne, MD, highlights the many advances that have been made in the treatment paradigms of locally advanced and metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.