
Debra Patt, MD, physician, Texas Oncology, discusses the current healthcare reform changes and what effects they will have on oncology care.

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Debra Patt, MD, physician, Texas Oncology, discusses the current healthcare reform changes and what effects they will have on oncology care.

Jack A. Roth, MD, professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, chief, Section of Thoracic Molecular Oncology, Division of Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, compares surgery with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in patients with early-stage lung cancer.

Hetty Carraway, MD, Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses combination epigenetic therapies including aza-nucleosides and histone deacetylase inhibitors, as well as immunomodulatory therapies, such as lenalidomide for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

Jason J. Luke, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses combination approaches that are on the horizon for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses minimal residual disease in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).Â

Oliver Sartor, MD, medical oncologist, Tulane University School of Medicine, discusses key points for community oncologists regarding radium-223 for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Carolyn D. Britten, MD, chief, Division of Hematology Oncology, associate director, Clinical Investigations, at the Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses questions that remain in immunotherapy.

James Larkin, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital, discusses a phase II study that examined the combination of lenvatinib and everolimus versus either agent alone in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Douglas Yee, MD, professor of medicine and pharmacology, Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, medical oncologist, University of Minnesota, discusses the results of the phase II ADAPT trial, which examined T-DM1 in patients with HER2-positive, HR-positive early-stage breast cancer.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the next steps following results of the ARIEL2 trial, which aimed to identify patients with ovarian cancer most likely to respond to rucaparib using tumor genetic analysis.

Owen A. O'Connor, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine and Experiment Therapies, co-program director, Lymphoid Development and Malignancy Program, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses targeting CD30 expression in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Davendra Sohal, MD, MPH, oncologist and Director of the Clinical Genomics Program at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, discusses the feasibility of standardizing genomic profiling and apply precision medicine techniques.

Juneko Grilley-Olson, MD, assistant professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clinical Research, Thoracic Oncology Program, Head and Neck Oncology Program, Bone and Soft Tissue Oncology Program, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses treating patients with cancer based on their molecular profile.

James Stevenson, MD, medical oncologist, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute (TCI), discusses the impact of a stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) care pathway on front-line and maintenance chemotherapy.

David Piccioni, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Neuroscience and Neuro-Oncology, UC San Diego Health, discusses tumor profiling of brain metastases of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.

Alberto Montero, MD Staff Physician in the Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses reducing readmission rates for oncology patients.

Frank A. Sinicrope, MD, medical oncologist, Departments of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Oncology, Mayo Clinic, discusses patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who are mismatch repair-deficient.

Sarah Holstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Oncology, Lymphoma/Myeloma Service Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses an updated of analysis CALGB/ECOG/BMT CTN 100104, which investigated lenalidomide maintenance therapy after single autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) for multiple myeloma.

S. Yousuf Zafar, MD, associate professor of medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the potential of immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Barbara J. Gitlitz, MD, associate professor of Clinical Medicine, Keck Hospital of USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses treating patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations in lung cancer.

Fred C. Kass, MD, oncology/hematology, internal medicine, Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, discusses challenges associated with optimal treatment sequencing for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Joyce A. O'Shaughnessy, MD, Texas Oncology-Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, discusses new developments in molecular profiling in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Jordi Giralt, MD, PhD, pathology, radiology, oncology, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, discusses a study that examined mucoadhesive clonidine (Clonidine Lauriad) in the prevention of severe radiomucositis in patients with head and neck cancer.

Asher A. Chanan-Khan, MD, chair, Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic in Florida, discusses ibrutinib as a backbone of treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Joseph F. Renzulli, II, MD, FACS, assistant professor of surgery (urology) clinical, Alpert Medical School, discusses the expanded access program in the United States for radium-223 dichloride in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Joyce A. O'Shaughnessy, MD, Texas Oncology-Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, discusses how the results of phosphoprotein assays can impact treatment decisions for select patients with advanced breast cancer.

John P. Leonard, MD, medical oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the phase III SELENE study, which is examining the addition of ibrutinib to either R-CHOP or bendamustine plus rituximab for the treatment of patients with follicular lymphoma.

Noah D. Kauff, MD, FACOG, gynecologist and geneticist, director, Ovarian Cancer Screening and Prevention, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the main challenges in treating uterine cancer.

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), chief, Breast Medical Oncology, co-director, Cancer Genetics Research Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the Breast Cancer Index in patients with ER-positive/HR-positive breast cancer.

Lee M. Krug, MD, associate attending physician, Division of Thoracic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase I study examining intra-pleural administration of GL-ONC1 in patients with malignant pleural effusion.