OncLive TV

Andrzej Jakubowiak, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, director, Myeloma Program, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the likelihood of finding a cure for patients with multiple myeloma.

Ajay S. Behl, PhD, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, discusses a study examining the central nervous system (CNS) and dose-reduction events in patients with prostate cancer following treatment with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) plus prednisone.

Noah Federman, MD, director, Pediatric Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Program, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the use of nanotechnology as a treatment for patients with sarcomas.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, professor of Medicine and director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program at the UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the results of the SWISH trial, which examined a dexamethasone-based mouthwash for the prevention of everolimus/exemestane stomatitis in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, co-director, Kidney Cancer Program, City of Hope, discusses biomarker development in the field of renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

E. David Crawford, MD, professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, discusses ongoing research with radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Joanne Blum, MD, PhD, FACP, physician, Texas Oncology, discusses the key takeaways from the phase III ABC (anthracyclines in early breast cancer) trials, which compared docetaxel plus cyclophosphamide versus anthracycline/taxane-based chemotherapy regimens in patients with high-risk, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, discusses surrogate markers aside from progression-free survival (PFS) in studying patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Navesh K. Sharma, DO, PhD, associate professor of Radiology in the Division of Radiology and Oncology at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and section chief of Radiation Oncology at the Penn State Health St. Joseph Cancer Center, discusses the results of the SIRFLOX study, which examined the addition of Yttrium-90 (Y-90) resin microspheres (SIR-Spheres) to standard frontline FOLFOX-based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for patients with liver metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, discusses ongoing research of and next steps with atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for the treatment of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Nicholas J. Robert, MD, medical oncology, hematology, Virginia Cancer Specialists, US Oncology, discusses the MA.17R trial, which explored an extension of adjuvant letrozole for 5 years after completing an initial 5 years of aromatase inhibitor therapy alone or preceded by tamoxifen in postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer.

David F. McDermott, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, staff physician, director, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses long-term follow-up results of treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, director, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Program, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses a phase Ib study examining ONT-380 in combination with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, and what potential the combination has in the neoadjuvant setting.

Mary Ellen Taplin, MD, chair, executive committee for Clinical Research, director of Clinical Research, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, institute physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the ongoing ARMOR 3-SV trial for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Michael J. Overman, MD, associate professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how the results of the phase III FIRE-3 and 80405 studies will impact treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Fred Saad, MD, professor and chairman of Urology, director of GU Oncology, the University of Montreal Hospital Centers, discusses results of an analysis that examined which patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer are able to receive the recommended 6-doses of radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo).

John Byrd, MD, director of the Division of Hematology, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the mechanism of acalabrutinib, a next-generation BTK inhibitor as a potential treatment for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.