OncLive TV

Nikhil Khushalani, MD, vice chair, Department of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the plans for the CA045-001 trial, an international, multicenter study that is comparing bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab versus nivolumab monotherapy in patients with previously untreated, unresectable, or metastatic melanoma.

Evan Y. Yu, MD, professor, Department of Medical Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, member, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and clinical trials core director, Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses future directions in prostate cancer.

Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Hematological Malignancies program, and medical oncologist, hematologist, and clinical instructor at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the use of polatuzumab vedotin (Polivy) in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Daphne Dumoulin, MD, discusses the NVALT 12 study, a trial examining paclitaxel/carboplatin/bevacizumab inducing peripheral effector CD8 T-cell proliferation that could be prone to treatment in checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Pei-Chun McGregor, MD, cardio-oncologist and director of Ambulatory Cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare System, instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses the goals of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, an associate clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, co-director, Kidney Cancer Program, and medical oncologist at City of Hope, discusses the design of the phase II SWOG 1500 trial (NCT02761057) in locally advanced or metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC).