Latest Conference Articles

Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology, University of Colorado Cancer Center, CEO, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), discusses necitumumab for first-line treatment of advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Michael Postow, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the overall survival (OS) results of the CheckMate-069 study, which investigated the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

Yong-Chen William Lu, PhD, a fellow in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute, discusses a CD4 T-cell immunotherapy targeting MAGE-A3 that is showing early clinical responses in patients with metastatic cancer.

Rose K. Lai, MD, clinical associate professor of Neurology, University of Southern California, discusses results of the Glioma International Case Control study.

F. Stephen Hodi, MD, director of the Melanoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the results of the longest follow-up survival study of patients with advanced melanoma who were treated with single-agent nivolumab (Opdivo).

Nicola Normanno, MD, chief of the Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit, INT-Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy, discusses the benefit of plasma genotyping to predict response to EGFR-targeted therapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Raffaele Califano, MD, consultant in medical oncology at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital of South Manchester, discuses the potential for immunotherapy in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Luis Paz-Ares, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain, discusses a subgroup analysis of patients with EGFR-expressing tumors from the SQUIRE trial, a phase III study of gemcitabine–cisplatin plus necitumumab versus gemcitabine–cisplatin alone as first-line treatment for patients with stage IV squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Suresh Ramalingam, MD, professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory School of Medicine and deputy director of Winship Cancer Institute, discusses first-line treatment with single-agent osimertinib in patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

John Haanen, MD PhD, epartment of Medical Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, discussed the role of PD-L1 as a biomarker in lung cancer.

Thierry Jahan, MD, professor of medicine at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, discusses CRS-20, a live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes bacterium which is being investigated with chemotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).

William Gradishar, MD, Betsy Bramsen Professorship of Breast Oncology, Professor in Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses changes to the NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines.

Jeffrey Jones, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses NCCN recommendations for treatment of relapsed patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Leora Horn, MD, MSc, clinical director, Thoracic Oncology Program, assistant vice chancellor for faculty development, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, provides her thoughts on how agents targeted T790M-mutant NSCLC will be incorporated into NCCN guidelines.

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, Giant of Cancer Care: Myeloma, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, discusses how the definition of myeloma has changed.

Kilian Salerno, MD, director of Breast Radiation and Soft Tissue/Melanoma Radiation, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses hypofractionated radiotherapy for the treatment of patients with early-stage breast cancer.

James Mohler, MD, chair, Department of Urology, associate director, Translational Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the use of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for patients with prostate cancer and how the use is reflected in the NCCN guidelines.

Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, medical director, Quality Informatics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the role of biosimilars in cancer care. Zelenetz spoke about this topic at the 2016 NCCN Annual Conference.

Anne Covey, MD, interventional radiologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses recent and future changes to locoregional treatment approaches for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Jean Hurteau, MD, professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology at NorthShore University Health System, discusses the difficulties of diagnosing ovarian clear cell carcinoma. Hurteau says data for the diagnosis of the carcinoma is older, and is not relevant to contemporary diagnoses due to the fact that there were more mixed tumors previously than there are now.

Bobbie J. Rimel, MD, assistant professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, discusses discovering BRCA mutations early in ovarian cancer patients. Rimel says with the genetic information of knowing which patients harbor which genetic mutations, oncologists can offer their patients treatments such as PARP inhibitors, which are gene-specific.

John Byrd, MD, director of the Division of Hematology, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, discusses the RESONATE 2 study, which looked at ibrutinib versus chlorambucil in patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Sundar Jagannath, MD, professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses upcoming agents in multiple myeloma.

Terri Febbraro, MD, third year fellow, University of Chicago/NorthShore University Health System, discusses length of time receiving chemotherapy versus overall survival in patients with ovarian cancer. Febbraro says the study looked at three separate groups of patients with ovarian cancer based on the length of time they receieved chemotherapy, with the group being on chemotherapy the longest having the worst overall survival rates.

Martee Hensley, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the introduction of trabectedin into the armamentarium for uterine leiomyosarcoma. Hensley says the FDA approval for the treatment requires patients to have had a prior anthracycline therapy, and the treatment will likely fall into the third- or fourth-line of treatment for the malignancy. She adds that trabectedin may fall into the fourth-line due to treatments such as pazopanib currently occupying the third-line.

Emily Ko, MD, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses the role of surgery in endometrial cancer and the candidacy of patients for the procedure.

Susan O’Brien, MD, Associate Director for Clinical Science for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Medical Director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research, UC Irvine Health, discusses upcoming agents in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

John Leonard, MD, medical oncology, at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital, discusses follicular lymphoma treatment considerations. Treatment options include rituximab and bendamustine, which have been around for sometime, as well as newer agents like obinutuzumab, says Leonard.

Terri Woodard, MD, assistant professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses if conservative management for women with ovarian cancer is warranted.

Jennifer Brown MD, PhD, Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center, Senior Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, discusses RESONATE 2 and frontline ibrutinib use in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).