
Halle Moore, MD, medical oncologist, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the results of the phase III POEMS study, which was presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.

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Halle Moore, MD, medical oncologist, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the results of the phase III POEMS study, which was presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.

James P. Allison, PhD, director, immunotherapy platform, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Giant of Cancer Care, discusses the potentiation of immune checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy with oncolytic virus.

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, assistant attending physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses results of an early-phase study looking at afatinib and cetuximab for patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer.

Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Oncology Division, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses the mechanism of action of MM-398, a novel encapsulation of irinotecan in a long-circulating nanoliposome.

Harvey I. Pass, MD, director, Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses treatment resistance in mesothelioma.

Douglas Kondziolka, MD, MSc, director, Gamma Knife Program, vice chair, Clinical Research, Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone, discusses updates concerning the treatment of brain metastases.

Karen L. Reckamp, MD, discusses the results of a phase II study of the AKT inhibitor MK-2206 plus erlotinib in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who progressed on erlotinib.

Joseph M. Flynn, DO, MPH, co-director, Division of Hematology; co-director, LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence; medical director, James Survivorship Clinics, The Ohio State University, James Cancer Hospital, discusses the impact ibrutinib has had on treating hematologic malignancies.

Loren Clarke, MD, vice president of Medical Affairs of Dermatology at Myriad Genetics, discusses melanoma biopsies.

Melanie B. Thomas, MD, medical oncologist, associate director for clinical trials, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses the potential utility for the monoclonal antibody PF-03446962 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, discusses an analysis of two targeted drugs for the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Anthony J. Cmelak, MD, professor, Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses the results of ECOG1308, a study that evaluated reduced-dose IMRT in HPV-associated resectable oropharyngeal squamous carcinomas (OPSCC) after clinical complete response to induction chemotherapy.

Sean C. Dowdy, MD, discusses the association of molecular subtypes and responses to bevacizumab in ovarian cancer.

Brian A. Van Tine, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses some potential novel treatment modalities for the treatment of sarcoma.

Michael Brawer, MD, vice president, Medical Affairs, Myriad Genetics, discusses a study that looked at predicting radical prostatectomy outcomes.

Paulo Marcelo Hoff, MD, PhD, FACP, University of São Paulo, Brazil, discusses a meta-analysis of randomized trials that examined the effect of chemotherapy delivered until progression versus complete stop on the overall survival of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Filip Janku, MD, PhD, discusses longitudinal monitoring of BRAF V600E mutation in urinary cell-free DNA of patients with metastatic cancers.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the results of a phase II trial that examined prostate specific membrane antigen antibody drug conjugate (PSMA ADC) in taxane-treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients.

Thomas E. Hutson, DO, PharmD, medical oncologist, Texas Oncology–Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, discusses the rationale behind the ATLAS Study, a randomized double-blind phase III study of adjuvant axitinib versus placebo in subjects at high risk of recurrent renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the findings from the STORM trial, a phase III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of adjuvant sorafenib after resection or ablation to prevent recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Sujana Movva, MD, medical oncologist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses a study presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting where researchers profiled more than 1900 sarcoma specimens to try to identify potential novel treatment modalities for patients with this disease.

Jennifer Woyach, MD, discusses the association of disease progression on ibrutinib therapy with the acquisition of resistance mutations.

Lori J. Wirth, MD, medical director, Center for Head and Neck Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital, assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, discusses the safety profile of lenvatinib as seen in the phase III SELECT trial, which analyzed lenvatinib (E7080) in patients with 131I-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

Bradley Monk, MD, gynecologic oncologist, University of Arizona Cancer Center Phoenix Branch, discusses the utility of bevacizumab in recurrent cervical cancer.

Eli L. Diamond, MD, neurologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the results of an analysis that examined the detection of BRAF mutations in urine and plasma cell-free DNA in patients with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis(LCH) and Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) who have a BRAFV600E mutation

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, discusses the effect of prior trastuzumab on eribulin mesylate in combination with trastuzumab as first-line treatment for HER2-positive locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

Ezra Cohen, MD, professor of medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, discusses the rationale of the Active8 study.

William D. Tap, MD, Chief, Sarcoma Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the idea of using combined KIT and CTLA-4 blockade in patients with refractory GIST and other advanced sarcomas.

Dorothy M. K. Keefe, MD, FRACP, past president, MASCC, director, SA Cancer Service, professor of cancer medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia, discusses the role of supportive care in personalized medicine.

Igor Puzanov, MD, medical oncologist, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses the rationale behind a phase Ib study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of T-VEC and ipilimumab in previously untreated, unresected stage IIIB-IV melanoma.