Suzanne Topalian, MD, professor of surgery and oncology, John Hopkins Medicine, and director of the melanoma program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, compares biomarker detection for anti- PD-1 therapies like nivolumab to anti-CTLA-4 therapies like ipilimumab for the treatment of melanoma.
Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, talks about the future of biomarker-based testing for prostate cancer.
Richard Finn, MD, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses findings from a phase II PALOMA-1/TRIO-18 study that examined palbociclib in combination with letrozole as a first-line treatment with ER-positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer.
Jia Ruan, MD, PhD, an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, talks about initial treatment methods for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Mark Delworth, MD, a urologist and the medical director of the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program at TriHealth Hospital, talks about the outcomes of robotic surgery for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Ian Flinn, MD, PhD, director of the hematologic malignancies program at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses how the approvals of idelalisib and ibrutinib will change treatment paradigms for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and low-grade lymphoma.
Morie Gertz, MD, the chair of the Department of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, discusses expanding treatment options for myeloma.
Jennifer Yuchen Shih, MD, a medical oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the ABCSG-8 and BIG 1-98 studies and their impacts on the treatment of lobular breast cancer compared to ductal breast cancers.
Lori Goldstein, MD, the director of the Naomi and Phil Lippincott Breast Evaluation Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses a neoadjuvant trial of lapatinib and trastuzumab with or without endocrine therapy for 12 weeks vs. 24 weeks in patients with HER2 overexpressing breast cancer.
Doris Germain, PhD, ‎associate professor at Mount Sinai Cancer Institute, discusses the scientific rationale behind a clinical trial comparing fulvestrant alone with bortezomib plus fulvestrant for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer.
Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD, a senior member at the Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the EORTC 18701 study, which compared ipilimumab with placebo for patients with stage III node-positive melanoma.
Samir Taneja, MD, professor of Urology and Radiology and director of the Division of Urologic Oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD, associate professor, chief, Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, talks about the challenges of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic cancers.
Denise Yardley, MD, senior investigator, breast cancer research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute discusses the phase II FERGI study and how it can be applied to more than just breast cancer.
Harriet Kluger, MD, associate professor of medicine, Yale Cancer Center, talks about the toxicity of nivolumab and ipilimumab for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma.
Chandra P. Belani, MD, deputy director, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, Miriam Beckner Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, discusses the benefits of immunotherapy for lung cancer.
Giant of Cancer Care, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr, MD, from the Yale School of Medicine, talks about the 10th Edition of Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, an internationally acclaimed book geared toward practicing oncologists.
Kerin Adelson, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explains the results of a phase II clinical trial comparing fulvestrant alone with bortezomib plus fulvestrant for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer.
David Rimm MD, PhD, professor of pathology and medicine, director of pathology tissue services, Yale University School of Medicine, explains the benefits of quantitativecfor the measurement of HER2 proteins.
Joan Lunden talks about imaging technology and genetic testing for the early detection of breast cancer with Roy Firestone and Patrick I. Borgen, MD, in advance of her keynote address at the 32nd Miami Breast Cancer Conference.
Jonathan Tward, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses abbreviated course androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer treatment.
Lawrence Mayer, PhD, president, founder and chief scientific officer of Celator Pharmaceuticals, explains the technology behind CPX-351, a liposomal formulation of cytarabine and daunorubicin. CPX-351 was recently granted Fast Track Designation by the FDA for the treatment of elderly patients with relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Joan Lunden discusses the diagnostic approach that led to the early detection of triple-negative breast cancer, which was undetected by mammogram and 3D mammogram but was detected with ultrasound.
Edith A. Perez, MD, the deputy director at large for the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, discusses the BEACON trial.
Scott Rowley, MD, the Chief of John Theurer Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Division, discusses the challenges of allogeneic stem cell transplant.
A. Keith Stewart, MBChB, from the Mayo Clinic, discusses the safety profile of carfilzomib (Kyprolis) when used in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.
Donna McNamara, MD, Co-Chief of the Gynecologic Oncology Division and Medical Oncologist for the Breast Oncology Division at the John Theurer Cancer Center, talks about the benefits of PARP inhibitors for women with BRCA1 or BRCA2-mutated, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer.
Kei Muro, MD, of the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, discusses updated findings from the KEYNOTE-012 study, which looked at pembrolizumab for the treatment if several types of cancer.
Laura Dawson, MD, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, talks about the challenges in treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Joseph Alvarnas, MD, the director of Medical Quality at City of Hope National Medical Center, discusses autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHCT) for patients with HIV-associated lymphoma.
