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The second part of the webinar Lung Cancer Screening and Treatment: What's Next? focuses on the review of lung cancer screening and treatment status amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Participating faculty include Albert Rizzo, MD, FCCP, FACP, FAASM; James L. Mulshine, MD; Andrea Borondy Kitts, MS, MPH; and Sandip Patel, MD.

An expert hematologist/oncologist will highlight the traditional treatment options, unmet needs, and recent advances and approvals in chronic graft vs host disease. Clinical trials will be described as well as novel agents on the horizon.

Carrie Lenneman, MD, MSCI, and Farrukh Awan, MD, discuss adverse events associated with treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia, particularly when utilizing BTK inhibitors.

Implications for treating patients with progressive, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer with tucatinib in combination with capecitabine and trastuzumab.

Experts share their perspective on the optimal management of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in light of recent clinical data for novel targeted therapies.

Expert thoracic oncologists discuss the importance of comprehensive molecular testing and optimal use of novel targeted agents in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Key opinion leaders in the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms, Pankit Vachhani, MD, and Jamile Shammo, MD, share expert perspectives on ruxolitinib for patients with primary myelofibrosis and polycythemia vera.

The rationale behind the use of lutetium-177-PSMA-617, a targeted radioligand therapy, in patients with progressive PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Experts discuss recent data on next generation sequencing and germline testing in patients with advanced and metastatic cancer.

Drs Richard D. Carvajal and Marlana M. Orloff describe the rationale for treating uveal melanoma with tebentafusp and provide insight on assessing treatment response and managing treatment-related adverse events.

Glenn Hanna, MD, and Nabil F. Saba, MD, FACP, discuss recent data on use of tipifarnib in HRAS-mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, discusses updated results of the HER2CLIMB trial of tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Best practices when prescribing and managing antibody-drug conjugate therapy as treatment for relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Nicholas McAndrew, MD, MSCE provides his perspective on how findings reported at ASCO 2021 will impact treatment of patients with PIK3CA-mutated HR+, HER2- advanced breast cancer. In this series, Dr. McAndrew reviews the overall survival results from MONALEESA-3, the joint analysis of SOLAR-1 and X2101, the design and outcomes of the BYLieve trial, and real-world clinical outcomes using alpelisib in patients with PIK3CA-mutated HR+, HER2- advanced breast cancer.

Key opinion leaders in hematology oncology, Eunice Wang, MD and Bijal Shah, MD, MS, review the results of the ZUMA trial of CAR T cell therapy in adult patients with relapsed/refractory ALL. 

Priyanka Sharma, MD, and Lajos Pusztai, MD, PhD, discuss the practice-changing results and real-world implications of the RxPONDER trial for patients with HR+ HER2- breast cancer.

Ralph Boccia, MD and Jim Schwartz, RPh provide key insights into the recent FDA approval of trilaciclib and discuss its impact on the treatment landscape for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.