Latest Conference Articles

William K. Oh, MD, Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses validating a whole-blood RNA prognostic signature in mCRPC.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, assistant professor, genitourinary cancers, City of Hope, discusses changes in relative conditional survival in metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Leonard Gomella, MD, from the Kimmel Cancer Center Network, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, provides an update on the dendritic cell cancer vaccine sipuleucel-T in castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, discusses the androgen receptor inhibitor ODM-201, which is used to treat castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Scott T. Tagawa, MD, assistant professor of medicine, medical director, Genitourinary Oncology Research Program, Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the results of a study that evaluated the safety of abiraterone acetate combined with docetaxel in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that were presented at the 2014 Genitourinary Cancer Symposium in San Francisco.

John L. Marshall, MD, from Georgetown University Hospital, on the recent advancements in colorectal cancer.

Robert L. Fine, MD, from the Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the prospective phase II study of CAPTEM for patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

Smitha Krishnamurthi, MD, discusses the results of the RAINBOW TRIAL

Elizabeth Garner, MD, MPH, vice president, Clinical Affairs, Preventive Care, Myriad Genetics, discusses the myRisk Hereditary Cancer Test.

Laura J. Esserman, MD, discusses the I-SPY 2 trial, a clinical trial for women with newly diagnosed, locally advanced breast cancer.

Andrew J. Brenner, MD, PhD, from the Cancer Therapy Research Center, discusses the link between obesity and breast cancer outcomes.

Julie R. Gralow, MD, from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the SWOG S0500 trial, which evaluated different therapies for patients with metastatic breast cancer who had elevated circulating tumor cell levels.

Kristi McIntyre, MD, from Texas Oncology, discusses the results of a phase II, multicenter, single-arm study that studies eribulin mesylate as first-line therapy for locally recurrent or metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer.

Matthew J. Ellis, MD, PhD, from the Siteman Cancer Center, discusses the ongoing phase III FALCON trial.

Edith A. Perez, MD, professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the antibody drug conjugate T-DM1 as a treatment for patients with breast cancer.

Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, FACP, discusses the tnAcity trial, which is aimed to clarify how best to use existing drugs in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, from the John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses the apparent effectiveness of CD19-targeted CAR-modified T cells as a treatment for patients with various types of lymphoma.

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD,discusses the CALGB 40603 trial, a neoadjuvant triple-negative breast cancer trial.

C. Kent Osborne, MD, professor of medicine and molecular and cell biology, Baylor College of Medicine, discusses the impact of the results of the PRIME 2 trial, which looked at radiotherapy after surgery in women over 65 years old with breast cancer.

Jatin J. Shah, MD, from the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes his excitement over novel therapeutics in development for patients with multiple myeloma.

Jennifer Litton, MD, associate professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the results of the BETH trial.

Sherene Loi, MD, PhD, on the association between immune cells and a pathologic complete response in patients with breast cancer after being given chemotherapy and trastuzumab.

Richard R. Furman, MD, from the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the ability to avoid the administration of chemotherapy when using novel agents, such as idelalisib, to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Jacob Laubach, MD, MPP, from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses responses observed following the administration of daratumumab for patients with multiple myeloma.

Ian W. Flinn, MD, PhD, from the Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the preliminary efficacy of IPI-145 in patients with chronic lymphocyic leukemia (CLL).

Valentin Goede, MD, from the University Hospital Cologne, discusses the efficacy findings from the stage 2 CLL11 study that examined obinutuzumab plus chlorambucil in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with comorbidities.

Jennifer Brown, MD, PhD, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the development of the novel PI3K-delta inhibitor idelalisib as a treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

John F. Seymour, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, discusses the efficacy of single-agent ABT-199 (GDC-0199), a novel Bcl-2 inhibitor, in high-risk relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD, Head, discusses a trial being presented at the 2013 ASH Annual Meeting, analyzing the addition of ibrutinib to R-CHOP in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).

Naiyer A. Rizvi, MD, an associate attending physician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses PD-1 and PD-L1 antibodies in development for the treatment of lung cancer.