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Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service, Department of Medicine and Ludwig Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the updated findings from the CheckMate-067 trial, which explored nivolumab (Opdivo) combined with ipilimumab (Yervoy) in treatment-naive patients with advanced melanoma.
Ranee Mehra, MD, chief, Head and Neck Hematology/Oncology, associate professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the results of the KEYNOTE-012 study, which examined the efficacy of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Oliver Sartor, MD, medical director of Tulane Cancer Center, discusses the mechanism of action of radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) as well as its safety profile for the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Denise A. Yardley, MD, senior investigator, Breast Cancer Research Program, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the phase II HERMIONE-2 trial, which is a randomized, open label trial comparing MM-302 plus trastuzumab with chemotherapy of physician’s choice plus trastuzumab, in patients with anthracycline-naive HER2-positive, locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer who were previously treated with pertuzumab and ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1).
Tony Philip, MD, medical oncologist, Monter Cancer Center of the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute, assistant professor of Medicine, Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine and NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, discusses treatment challenges for patients with soft tissue sarcoma.
Mark G. Kris, MD, medical oncologist, William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, explains what community oncologists need to know regarding immunotherapy and frontline treatment options for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Christian Gisselbrecht, MD, a Professor of Haematology in the Haemato-Oncology Department of Hôpital Saint-Louis, at Diderot University, Paris, discusses refractory disease in aggressive diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Daniel H. Ahn, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses a next-generation sequencing survey of biliary track cancer to reveal the association between tumor somatic variants and chemotherapy resistance.
Jerome Galon, PhD, research director, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, discusses the prognostic value of the Immunoscore assay and its corresponding validation study, which was presented during the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Michael J. Overman, MD, associate professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study examining nivolumab (Opdivo) monotherapy, ipilimumab (Yervoy) monotherapy, and the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with high microsatellite instability metastatic colorectal cancer.
David Planchard, MD, PhD, Department of Medical Oncology, Thoracic Unit, Institut Gustave Roussy, discusses a phase II trial examining the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib in pretreated patients with BRAF V600E-mutant advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, medical director, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, United Kingdom, discusses a phase I/II dose-escalation study examining the efficacy and safety of the PD-1 antibody durvalumab in patients with metastatic urothelial bladder cancer.
Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director and co-director of the Melanoma Program, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the design and results of the CheckMate-064 trial, which examined outcomes in patients who received nivolumab (Opdivo) given sequentially with ipilimumab (Yervoy) in patients with advanced melanoma.
Sandra Demaria, MD, assistant professor of Radiation Oncology, (Interim), Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College and New-York Presbyterian, discusses the synergy with radiation therapy and immunotherapy as a potential combination regimen for patients with cancer.
Melissa Johnson, MD, associate director, Lung Cancer Research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the phase II BIRCH study, which is examining atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in patients with PD-L1–positive locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Yardena Samuels, PhD, Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Moleular Cell Biology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, discuses her lab’s discovery of a potential prognostic biomarker in cutaneous sporadic melanoma.
Art Rastinehad, DO, Director of Focal Therapy and Interventional Urologic Oncology, Mount Sinai Health System, discusses an electromagnetically (EM) tracked transperineal MR/US fusion-guided biopsy platform (tpFBx) for prostate cancer.
Michael E. Williams, MD, ScM, Byrd S. Leavell Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, discusses personalized medicine in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, assistant professor of Medicine, medical director, Genitourinary Oncology Research Program, assistant attending physician, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the antibody-drug conjugate IMMU-132 for the treatment of patients with metastatic platinum-resistant urothelial cancer.
Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD, surgeon, researcher in prostate cancer genomics, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and New-York Presbyterian, discusses the implications of SPOP mutations in patients with prostate cancer.
Elias Jabbour, MD, associate professor, department of leukemia, division of cancer medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses blinatumomab (Blincyto) for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).
William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy agents being explored in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
A. Daniel Pinheiro, MD, physician, Otolaryngology, Mercy Clinic, discusses a study looking at the determinants of cost in the treatment of patients with T1 to T3 oropharynx cancer.
Yasuhiro Funahashi, MD, senior director, Eisai, discusses a study exploring the enhanced antitumor activity with the combination of lenvatinib (Lenvima) and everolimus (Afinitor) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Stanley Yap, MD, assistant professor, urologic oncology, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses sequential therapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Keith Kerr, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCPath, FRCPE, of the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, discusses PD-L1 immunohistochemistry in lung cancer.
Russell Szmulewitz, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the optimal use of radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Roberto Pili, MD, professor of Medicine and Robert Wallace Miller Professor of Oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine and a researcher at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, discusses the significance of the preliminary results of a phase I/II study, which examined the combination of the HDAC inhibitor entinostat and high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) in patients with previously untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) of clear cell histology.
