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OncLive TV

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 role of minimal residual disease in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Jasmine Rassiwala, MD, resident physician, University of California, San Francisco, discusses the analysis of the “all-comers” downstaging protocol, which investigated whether there were upper limits in tumor burden for successful downstaging of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma to liver transplant.

Jordi Bruix, MD, head of the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer at University of Barcelona, discusses positive results with the use of regorafenib as a second-line treatment in patients previously treated with sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Julia von Tresckow, MD, specialist in oncology, University of Cologne, Department of Internal Medicine, and Center of Integrated Oncology Cologne-Bonn, German CLL Study Group, discusses the CLL2-BIG trial, which explored the combination of obinutuzumab (Gazyva) and ibrutinib (Imbruvica) for induction and maintenance treatment of physically fit and unfit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Patients with high tumor burden were given bendamustine as debulking.

Ramona Dadu, MD, assistant professor, Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the use of immunotherapy to treat patients with thyroid cancer.

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.