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Michael J. Morris, MD, an associate professor of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, discusses what novel combinatorial approaches researchers will be explored with radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Philip W. Kantoff, MD, chairman of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care winner for Genitourinary Cancer, discusses the role that chemotherapy treatment with docetaxel will continue to have in patients with prostate cancer. Kantoff shared this insight in an interview during the 2016 OncLive State of the Science Summit on Genitourinary Cancers.
Howard I. Scher, MD, chief, Genitourinary Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses understanding the genetics of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Gopa Iyer, MD, assistant attending physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses significant points for community oncologists to be aware of when treating patients with bladder cancer with immunotherapy agents.
Mark G. Kris, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses challenges associated with sequencing in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.
Patrick Borgen, MD, chair, Department of Surgery, director, Breast Center, Maimonides Medical Center, discusses the successful progress seen in the treatment landscape of HER2-positive breast cancer.
Sonja Althammer, PhD, Team Leader Bioinformatics at Definiens, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, discusses a study looking to define a subgroup of patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who respond well to treatment with the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab.
Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discuses novel immunotherapy biomarkers in colorectal cancer (CRC).
Sarah B. Goldberg, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the use of PD-L1 as a biomarker in treating patients with lung cancer.
Susan Lutgendorf, PhD, professor and Starch Faculty Fellow, Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, discusses the impact of lack of support on patients with ovarian cancer. Lutgendorf spoke on this during an interview at the SITC 31st Annual Meeting and Associated Programs.
Hossein Borghaei, DO, chief, Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology, director, Lung Cancer Risk Assessment, associate professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the management of slightly rarer side effects that patients with lung cancer can experience when treated with immunotherapy agents.
Lisa Butterfield, PhD, professor of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, director, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, discusses the goals of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Immune Biomarkers Task Force during an interview at the SITC 31st Annual Meeting and Associated Programs.
Debu Tripathy, MD, chair of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses agents that are available and in development in the neoadjuvant setting as treatments for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, director of Medical Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses recent advancements in cervical cancer.
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, discusses factors in determining first-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
Dana E. Rathkopf, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses mitigating androgen receptor (AR)-resistance in patients with prostate cancer.
Carey Anders, MD, assistant professor for the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Linebarger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses systemic agents available and in development for patients with breast cancer who also have brain metastases.
Kumar Sankhala, MD, medical director of Clinical Research, Sarcoma Oncology Center, discusses results of a recent trial looking at the combination of endoglin antibody TRC105 and pazopanib in patients with advanced angiosarcoma.
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 FDA approvals of the PD-L1 inhibitors nivolumab (Opdivo) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer.
Bryan Mehlhaff, MD, medical director of research for Oregon Urology Institute, discusses recent advancements in and what he sees on the horizon for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Robert Dreicer, MD, associate director for Clinical Research and deputy director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, discusses the potential of combination regimens involving radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Patrick M. Forde, MBBCh, assistant professor of oncology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses the CheckMate-026 study, which demonstrated that first-line therapy with nivolumab failed to improve progression-free survival (PFS) in PD-L1–positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with standard chemotherapy.
Richard Finn, MD associate professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses what’s next for palbociclib following the PALOMA trials.
Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, vice chair for Clinical Operations, associate director for Translational Research, and coleader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, discusses the impact of the FDA approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCCN).
Shaji Kumar, MD, professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the management of elderly patients with multiple myeloma.
Mark W. Kieran, MD, PhD, director, pediatric medical neuro-oncology, institute physician associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses the first study of dabrafenib in pediatric patients with BRAF V600–mutant disease.
Markus Albertsmeier, MD, surgeon, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, discusses a a meta-analysis of the effect of radiation therapy on local recurrence and overall survival in patients with soft tissue sarcoma.
John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Georgetown University Hospital, discusses potential obstacles ahead with the Cancer Moonshot Initiative following the results of the 2016 United States presidential election.
Maurie Markman, MD, president, Medicine and Science, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, editor-in-chief, OncologyLive, discusses the current status of immune targeting as potential treatment for patients with ovarian cancer.
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, discusses evolving treatment strategies for patients with colorectal cancer, with regards to molecular features such as sidedness.
