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Lori C. Sakoda, PhD, research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and affiliate investigator of the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses her study examining the pleiotropic associations of genetic risk variants for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with lung cancer risk.

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses immunotherapeutic options being explored in the treatment landscape of colorectal cancer (CRC) beyond PD-1/PD-L1 agents.

Sattva S. Neelapu, MD, associate professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the safety profile of KTE-C19, an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy explored in the ZUMA-1 trial for patients with aggressive lymphomas.

David Albala, MD, urologist and medical director, Associated Medical Professionals, discusses the benefits associated with robotic surgery in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, chairman and director, chief of Lymphoma, and director of Clinical and Translational Cancer Research at John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses combination therapies currently being explored in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Christian Diego Rolfo, MD, PhD, professor and unit coordinator at Antwerp University discusses the European perspective on precision medicine in lung cancer and the importance of clinical trials across different markets.

Eleftherios (Terry) P. Mamounas, MD, medical director of the Comprehensive Breast Program at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, discusses the phase III trial for extended letrozole (Femara) therapy for patients with breast cancer.

Preet M. Chaudhary, MD, PhD, chief of the Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases, Department of Medicine, professor of Medicine, Ronald H. Bloom Family Chair in Lymphoma Research, and program director of the USC Norris Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, co-Leader of the Molecular Genetics Program, University of Southern California, discusses the history of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Robert Dreicer, MD, associate director for Clinical Research and deputy director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, discusses novel agents or clinical trials in development designed to help guide treatment decisions for patients with prostate cancer.

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a phase I study of ruxolitinib (Jakafi) in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin) in metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

Samuel Smith, PhD, university academic fellow at the University of Leeds, discusses a breast cancer prevention trial that measured adherence to preventative medication in women experiencing menopausal symptoms.

Hatem Soliman, MD, associate member of The Center for Women’s Oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center discusses the prospective registry IMPACt study, which measured the impact of the MammaPrint 70-gene Breast Cancer Recurrence Assay in the routine management of women with early-stage breast cancer.

Bryan Mehlhaff, MD, medical director of research for Oregon Urology Institute, discusses the ways in which the treatment landscape in prostate cancer has evolved in recent years.

Geoffrey Sklar, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Chesapeake Urology Associates, discusses the role of nivolumab in the treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

Scott J. Swanson, MD, co-director of Minimally Invasive Surgery and chief surgical officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, discusses surgical choices for patients with multifocal lung cancer.

Raphael Bueno, MD, chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery co-director, Brigham and Women’s Lung Center, vice chairman of Surgery for Cancer and Translational Research, professor at Harvard Medical School, discusses gene expression signatures for squamous cell lung carcinoma.

Yu (Amy) Zong, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, discusses a meta-analysis of nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) as neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer.

Farhad Kosari, PhD, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, discusses anti-tumor immunity as a key determinant for small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) survivorship.

Rebecca Kristeleit, BSc, PhD, consultant medical oncologist, University College-London Cancer Institute, discusses the efficacy of rucaparib in the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.

Mark Stein, MD, medical oncologist, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, discusses trials investigating the use of circulating tumor cells as biomarkers for patients with prostate cancer.

Raffit Hassan, MD, head of Thoracic and Solid Tumor Immunotherapy Section at the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research discusses immunotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, director of Medical Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the prevalence of cervical cancer in the United States.

Alberto J. Montero, MD, Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the PERTAIN study in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-positive, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The study looks at the impact of adding pertuzumab (Perjeta) to trastuzumab (Herceptin) in aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy.

Alan P. Venook, MD, The Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, provides advice to community oncologists who are treating patients with colorectal cancer.

Ruth O’Regan, MD, division head of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, discusses BELLE-3, a phase III study of buparlisib (BKM120) plus fulvestrant (Faslodex) in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, who progressed on or after mTOR inhibitor-based treatment and were treated with an aromatase inhibitor.

Robert E. Coleman, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, professor of Medical Oncology and head of the Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology at the University of Sheffield, discusses the safety findings from the 10-year follow-up of the adjuvant treatment with zoledronic acid (ZOL) in stage II/III breast cancer, which was studied in the AZURE trial.

Hans Hammers, MD, PhD, associate professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses a mature data set regarding nivolumab and ipilimumab in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, discusses the impact that immunotherapy has had on the frontline treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, MD, professor of Medicine in Medical Oncology and head of the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado, discusses the current role of precision medicine in lung cancer.

Nicolas Girard, MD, professor of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, and senior attending physician in the Thoracic Oncology Service of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, discusses the optimal methods to maximize the outcomes of crizitonib (Xalkori) when used as a treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).