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Sandy Wong, MD, assistant professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UCSF School of Medicine, discusses monoclonal antibodies in plasma cell neoplasms.

Ruben Mesa, chair of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic, discusses the guideline updates in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.

Jane N. Winter, MD, professor of medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University, discusses response in follicular lymphoma.

Shaji K. Kumar, MD, professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the management of newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma.

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, medical director of the Leukemia Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses trials of novel combinations on chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Eva Comperat, MD, Hospital Tenon, discusses the treatment strategy for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

John Wagstaff, MD, professor at Swansea University Medical School, discusses the survival benefit of immunotherapy for patients with bladder cancer.

Badrinath Konety, MD, MBA, department chair, Department of Urology, University of Minnesota, discusses the guidelines for the management of patients with bladder cancer.

Maria De Santis, MD, associate clinical professor at the University of Warwick, discusses the future treatment landscape for patients with bladder cancer.

Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, professor of medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses endocrine therapy for patients with breast cancer.

Arti Hurria, MD, director, Cancer and Aging Research Program, co-leader, Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research and Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope, discusses challenges facing geriatric patients with breast cancer.

Theodore H. Welling, MD, associate professor of surgery, director of the Liver Tumor Program at Perlmutter Cancer Center of NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the purpose of the CheckMate-040 trial, which explored nivolumab (Opdivo) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. (HCC).

Robert Montal, MD, visiting researcher, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses biomarker findings of the phase III STORM trial, which explored adjuvant treatment with sorafenib (Nexavar) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Hyman B. Muss, MD, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, Breast Cancer, Geriatric Oncology Program, Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professorship in Geriatric Oncology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine, 2017 Giant of Cancer Care in Supportive/Palliative/Geriatric Care, discusses adjuvant therapy for elderly patients with HER2-positive or triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

Ruth O’Regan, MD, division head of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, discusses treatment for premenopausal patients with breast cancer.

Richard Finn, MD, associate professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the significance of the phase III trial of frontline lenvatinib (Lenvima) versus sorafenib (Nexavar) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Theodore H. Welling, MD, associate professor of surgery, director of the Liver Tumor Program at Perlmutter Cancer Center of NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses how immunotherapy agents will eventually fit into the paradigm of hepatocellular carcinoma. (HCC).

José Baselga, MD, PhD, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses biomarker research for patients with breast cancer.

Benjamin O. Anderson, MD, a surgical oncologist at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the biggest unmet need for patients with breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries.

Robert Montal, MD, visiting researcher, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses advancements regarding systemic therapies in the field of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Richard Finn, MD, associate professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, shares insight on some current and emerging agents in the field of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

William F. Symmans, MD, professor of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the staging system for patients with breast cancer.

Judith Paice, PhD, RN, director of the Cancer Pain Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, and research professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, discusses the pain management for patients with breast cancer.

H. Jack West, MD, thoracic oncologist, Swedish Cancer Institute of Swedish Medical Center, discusses the significance of the PACIFIC trial in patients with non

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, medical oncologist, assistant clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, discusses both the CheckMate-214 and CABOSUN trials for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Reinhard Dummer, MD, of University Hospital Zurich, discusses the results of the phase III COMBI-AD study presented at the 2017 ESMO Congress in patients with stage III BRAF-mutant melanoma.

Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD, deputy director, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, discusses the phase III results of the FLAURA trial, which explored osimertinib (Tagrisso) in the frontline setting for patients with EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Omid Hamid, MD, director of the melanoma center at the Angeles Clinic & Research Institute in Los Angeles, discusses the phase III results of the ECHO-202/KEYNOTE-037 trial, which explored the IDO inhibitor epacadostat plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with advanced melanoma.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director and co-director of the Melanoma Program at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the CheckMate-238 trial for patients with melanoma.

Solange Peters, MD, PhD, head of the Thoracic Malignancies Program in the Department of Oncology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, discusses the FLAURA trial for patients with EGFR-mutated non