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Ingfrid Haldorsen, MD, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, discusses the role of imaging in the diagnosis of endometrial cancer.

Jonathan Ledermann, MD, professor of medical oncology, UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom, discusses the results of the ARIEL3 trial in ovarian cancer.

Xavier Bosch, MD, MPH, Unit of Infections and Cancer (UNIC), Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme, Institut Catala d' Oncologia–Catalan Institute of Oncology, introduces a second-generation vaccination against the human papilloma virus (HPV) for the prevention of cervical cancer.

Jonathan Ledermann, MD, discussed these results, as well as the future of PARP inhibitors in the maintenance setting for patients with ovarian cancer.

Patients with ovarian cancer were unified in their responses regardless of age, disease stage, or whether they had primary or recurrent disease, and were more likely to opt to receive maintenance therapy if it could offer delay of disease progression and allow patients to maintain or improve their quality of life.

Deleterious mutations in the PALB2 gene may account for the development of breast cancer in women with an elevated risk due to a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, but who test negative for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

Rucaparib delayed disease recurrence in the intent to treat population and across subgroups of women with ovarian cancer.

Jalid Sehouli, MD, PhD, discusses the significance of these findings in the treatment of patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer.

A first-in-human study showed that the antibody drug conjugate tisotumab vedotin was well-tolerated and provided promising anti-tumor activity in patients with relapsed, recurrent, and/or metastatic cervical cancer.

The final analysis of overall survival data from the phase III AGO-OVAR 12 trial of nintedanib plus carboplatin/paclitaxel versus carboplatin/paclitaxel alone in women with chemotherapy-naive advanced ovarian cancer did not demonstrate a survival advantage with the addition of nintedanib.

Patients with relapsed ovarian cancer and a positive Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie (AGO) score experienced prolonged progression-free survival after undergoing a second cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy.

Umesh Mahantshetty, MD, MBBS, radiation oncologist, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, discusses the results of a trial of chemoradiation in patients with cervical cancer, presented at the 2017 International Meeting of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO).

Jalid Sehouli, MD, professor, director of the Clinic Campus Virchow and Campus Benjamin Franklin Charité Center Gynecology, Charité – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, discusses a trial of secondary cytoreductive surgery in patients with ovarian cancer, presented at the 2017 International Meeting of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO).

Marina Chiara Garassino, MD, medical consultant in the Medical Oncology Division, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy, discusses immunotherapy for patients with EGFR-mutated lung cancer.

Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD, physician, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the role of osimertinib (Tagrisso) in the TATTON trial for patients with lung cancer.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, a professor of medical oncology at the University of Colorado, discusses unmet needs for patients with lung cancer.

Alexander Drilon, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the role of MET in patients with lung cancer.

The combination of adjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab led to a 3-year relapse-free survival rate of 71% in patients with high-risk resected stage IIIC/IV melanoma.

A doubling in 3-year relapse-free survival rates remained consistent across patient subgroups treated with dabrafenib and trametinib, when compared with placebo, for patients with BRAF-mutant stage III melanoma.

Rodabe N. Amaria, MD, department of Melanoma Oncology, division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses using genetically modified tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in patients with advanced melanoma.

Dirk Schadendorf, MD, head of department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, Germany, discusses the efficacy of combining targeted therapy with checkpoint inhibitors for patients with melanoma.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab showed an intracranial response rate of 46% for asymptomatic patients with melanoma brain metastases who had not received prior local therapy to the brain.

The combination of anti–PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy with BRAF plus MEK inhibitors is advancing rapidly following early promising phase results for patients with BRAF-mutant advanced melanoma.

Immunotherapy has led a transformation for melanoma care but combinations of anti–PD-1 and CTLA-4 agents are toxic and biomarkers are not available to help personalized treatment, calling for further research into less toxic and more effective options.

Michael A. Postow, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses BRAF and MEK inhibitor combinations studies in melanoma.

Victoria Atkinson, MD, medical oncologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, discusses the Columbus trial for patients with 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 use of nivolumab (Opdivo) in the adjuvant setting for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

Treatment with genetically engineered tumor infiltrating lymphocytes showed some signs of activity and very little added toxicity for patients with metastatic melanoma.

While chemotherapy has historically been used to treat patients with Merkel cell carcinoma, immunotherapy advances have infused new hope into the treatment landscape.

Jason Luke, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the combination approach of a PD-1 antibody plus an IDO inhibitor for patients with melanoma.