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As insurers and the federal government look for ways to reduce costs in oncology, the division of care between large, academic institutions and smaller providers is undergoing a process of change, says Seth Berk, MD, chair of the Financial Audit Committee for Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA) and a Mount Holly, New Jersey, specialist in internal medicine, hematology and oncology.

Lisa Carey, MD, associate director, Clinical Research, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professorship for Breast Cancer Research, UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses the ongoing progress with agents in development for the potential treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Lowell L. Hart, MD, scientific director of Research at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, and associate professor of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine, discusses the recent advances in the area of ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Gopa Iyer, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the standard chemotherapy options for patients with bladder cancer, but mentions how other agents are evolving the landscape. Iyer shared this insight during the 2016 OncLive® State of the Science Summit on Genitourinary Cancers.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the emergence of immunotherapies in the field of bladder cancer, including atezolizumab (Tecentriq), nivolumab (Opdivo), and pembrolizumab (Keytruda). Rosenberg shared this at the 2016 OncLive State of the Science Summit on Genitourinary Cancers.

Eytan M. Stein, MD, internist, hematologic oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses some of the potential combinations that could be explored with novel agents in the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, and director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers, discusses the safety profile of Yttrium-90, particularly when combined with capecitabine as a treatment for patients with liver-dominant metastatic colorectal cancer.