
Franco M. Muggia, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the current challenges oncologists are facing in the treatment landscape of ovarian cancer.

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Franco M. Muggia, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the current challenges oncologists are facing in the treatment landscape of ovarian cancer.

C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, chief of Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses unanswered questions following the results of the phase III POLLUX and CASTOR studies, which explored the addition of daratumumab (Darzalex) to lenalidomide (Revlimid) and dexamethasone or bortezomib (Velcade) and dexamethasone, respectively.

Caitlin May, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist at Eli Lilly and Company, discusses preclinical activity with olaratumab (Lynparza) in pediatric sarcoma models.

Everett Vokes, MD, John E. Ultmann Professor of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, physician-in-chief, University of Chicago Medical Center, chair, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the possibility of moving immunotherapy agents into the frontline setting for patients with head and neck cancer.

Hatim Husain, MD, assistant professor of Hematology-Oncology at The University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, discusses his study on monitoring the emergence of EGFR T790M ctDNA in urine from EGFR-mutated NSCLC.

William K. Oh, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, professor of Medicine and Urology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses the safety profile of docetaxel when administered to patients with prostate cancer.

Erik J. Blok, MD, Department of Medical Oncology at Leiden University Medical Center, discusses the duration of adjuvant endocrine therapy. Blok claims that there is no breast cancer survival benefit in extending adjuvant letrozole treatment from 2.5 to 5 years.

Anobel Odisho, MD, urologic oncology fellow, University of Washington, discusses the use of a risk prediction model for patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Cecile Pizot, biostatistician in epidemiology at the International Prevention Research Institute, discusses the changes in mortality rates in breast cancer around the world. In a study on 47 countries, 39 saw breast cancer mortality rates decline, but mortality rates were on the rise in Latin American and Asian countries.

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the possibility of using vaccines as a preventative measure for breast cancer, particularly to fight recurrence.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, discusses the mechanism of action of Yttrium-90 in the treatment of patients with liver-dominant, metastatic colorectal cancer.

Maurie Markman, MD, president, Medicine and Science, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, editor-in-chief, OncologyLive, discusses the search for actionable biomarkers in the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.

Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, director of Medical Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the challenges associated with the patient demographics of cervical cancer.

Kathryn Kolibaba, MD, co-chair, Hematology Research Committee, US Oncology Research, discusses why the Syk inhibitor entospletinib demonstrates efficacy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

David Carbone, MD, PhD, director of the James Thoracic Center, and professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the effectiveness of different therapies to treat patients with lung cancer.

Mark G. Kris, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses what the future holds for the development of immunotherapy and targeted therapy in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, associate chief of Hematology/Oncology, co-director of the Comprehensive Breast Care Center, associate director of Clinical Investigation, University of Pittsburgh, discusses combining cobimetinib and paclitaxel as a first-line treatment in patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer.

Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, medical director of Quality Informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment options for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who fail on ibrutinib or idelalisib.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, professor of Medicine and Urology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the recent explosion of immunotherapy research in the treatment landscape of bladder cancer.

Mrinal Patnaik, MBBS, hematologist, Mayo Clinic, discusses the encouraging results seen in a phase II trial evaluating the activity of SL-401 in patients with advanced, high risk myeloproliferative neoplasms, including chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Igor Puzanov, MD, director, Early Phase Clinical Trials Program, chief of Melanoma, coleader, CCSG Experimental Therapeutics Program, professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses ways to manage patients with melanoma who may experience adverse events in response to treatment with immunotherapy.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, chairman and director, chief of Lymphoma, and director of Clinical and Translational Cancer Research at John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses the history of bortezomib as a treatment for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Omid A. Hamid, MD, chief, Translational Research and Immunotherapy, director, Melanoma Therapeutics, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, discusses how to accurately select patients who are likely to have durable and long responses with single-agent immunotherapy versus combination treatment.

John Mascarenhas, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses the results from the interim analysis of the MPD-RC 112 study, which compared frontline pegylated interferon-alpha-2a with hydroxyurea in the treatment of patients with high risk polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.

Yvonne Saenger, MD, director of Melanoma Immunotherapy at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses immunotherapy combinations in melanoma.

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service, Department of Medicine and Ludwig Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2014 Giant of Cancer Care in Melanoma, discusses an ongoing clinical trial that will explore optimal treatments for patients with melanoma who fail on a PD-1 inhibitor as a single agent.

Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, director of Medical Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses patient preferences for cervical cancer treatment, as well as the demographics of this population.

Sattva S. Neelapu, MD, associate professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses interim results of the phase II ZUMA-1 study in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Naval Daver, MD, assistant professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, discusses research evaluating different immune checkpoint pathways in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Jason J. Luke, MD, an assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, discusses ongoing studies exploring immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with melanoma.