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Caroline Robert, MD, PhD, Head of Dermatology, Institute Gustave-Roussy, discusses the results of the phase III COMBI-v study in BRAF-mutant melanoma during an interview at the ESMO 2016 Congress.

Jordi Bruix, MD, head of the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer at University of Barcelona, discusses the results of the phase III RESORCE trial in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during an interview at the 2016 ESMO Congress.

The oral multikinase inhibitor regorafenib (Stivarga) has the potential to become the standard of care as second-line treatment in patients with previously treated hepatocellular carcinoma who are unsuitable for loco-regional therapy and have progressed on sorafenib.

Postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer had significant slowing of disease progression with the addition of the investigational cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to endocrine therapy.

Maintenance therapy with niraparib reduced the risk of progression or death by 73% compared with placebo for patients with germline BRCA-positive platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian cancer.

Treatment with ipilimumab reduced the risk of death by 28% versus placebo in patients with high-risk stage III melanoma.

Antonio Llombart-Cussac, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, chairman, Medical Oncology Service, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova in Valencia, Spain, discusses the CASCADE study, which assessed declines in treatment efficacy over time in patients with metastatic breast cancer, during an interview at the 2016 ESMO Congress.

Lars Bastholt, MD, clinical oncologist, Odense University Hospital, discusses the use of lenvatinib to treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer at the 2016 ESMO Congress.

The majority of heavily pretreated patients with high-grade ovarian cancer and germline or somatic BRCA mutations showed a durable response to rucaparib.

Almost 40% of patients with resected early-stage non–small cell lung cancer had evidence of tumor regression following neoadjuvant treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) in a preliminary clinical trial.

Over one-fourth of patients with metastatic melanoma in Europe do not have access to groundbreaking therapies that could extend their lives.

Dr. George Somlo, MD, medical oncologist, City of Hope, discusses recent highlights in multiple myeloma.

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, medical director of the Leukemia Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discuses which chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients may benefit from ibrutinib frontline therapy and questions that remain after the RESONATE-2 trial.

There have been 10 agents approved over the last 12 years for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma, and pivotal data for each agent has supported rapid inclusion into the NCCN treatment algorithms.

The preferred primary therapy for patients with multiple myeloma is induction therapy with a triplet regimen followed by autologous stem cell transplantation, consolidation, and maintenance.

There has been some debate over what should be the standard frontline treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: ibrutinib or chemoimmunotherapy with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab.

Thomas LeBlanc, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses why it is important to include patients in the decision-making process for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

​Steven Coutre, MD, professor of medicine (hematology) at Stanford University Medical Center, discusses considerations when selecting between oral therapies like ibrutinib and chemoimmunotherapy for first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Jessica K. Altman, MD, discussed the potential of agents poised to transform the landscape of acute myeloid leukemia.

Ruben Mesa, MD, discussed the latest NCCN treatment guidelines for myelofibrosis and emerging treatments in the field.

As generic imatinib enters the market, new questions focus on a renewed role for the agent in conjunction with second-generation TKIs.

​Jerald P. Radich, MD, clinical research division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the impact of the approval of generic imatinib in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).

Ruben Mesa, MD chair, hematology Mayo Clinic, MPN, discusses the new National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Ruben Mesa, MD chair, hematology Mayo Clinic, MPN, discusses the new National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).

Anthony B. El-Khoueiry, MD, associate professor of Clinical Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the rationale for evaluating nivolumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Ju Dong Yang, MD, MSc, discusses patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who present without cirrhosis at the time of diagnosis of liver cancer.

A new generation of drugs has proved highly effective against the hepatitis C virus but there is conflicting evidence about whether the therapies promote cancer recurrence in infected patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who already have responded to curative treatment.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, discusses research into the use of the immunotherapeutic vaccinia virus Pexa-Vec as a frontline treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Two competing methods of delivering locoregional therapy to patients with hepatocellular carcinoma both have advantages and may be most successful in subgroups of individuals with intermediate-stage disease.

Richard Kinh Gian Do, MD, PhD, radiologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the assessment of tumor response in liver cancer.

Francis Yao, MD, professor of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, medical director of the Liver Transplant Program at UCSF Medical Center, discusses the Milan criteria in liver cancer.