
Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, from the Duquesne University School of Nursing, discusses resources currently available to help strengthen the oncology training of nurses.

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Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, from the Duquesne University School of Nursing, discusses resources currently available to help strengthen the oncology training of nurses.

Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Hematologic Malignancy Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, comments on the diagnosis and testing of a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, from the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale-New Haven, describes a phase I/II study examining the safety and efficacy of orteronel in combination with docetaxel and prednisone in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Patrick Borgen, MD, chair, Department of Surgery, director, Maimonides Breast Cancer Center, discusses the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Bruce D. Cheson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Head of Hematology, Director of Hematology Research, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the diagnosis of patients with follicular lymphoma.

E. David Crawford, MD, from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, discusses the effectiveness of the immunotherapy sipuleucel-T as a treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer.

Lisa A. Carey, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses the use of everolimus in the metastatic and adjuvant settings of breast cancer.

James R. Berenson, MD, Medical and Scientific Director, Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, Chief Executive Officer, Oncotherapeutics, comments on new potential targets in myeloma.

George W. Sledge, Jr, MD, Chief, Division of Oncology, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses the lasting issues in the treatment of breast cancer.

Richard T. Silver, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Leukemia and Myleoproliferative Center, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the use hydroxyurea and interferons in myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Hyman B. Muss, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of Geriatric Oncology, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, discusses the need for a team environment when treating an older patient.

Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses physician and patient expectations when treating cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Fabrice Andre, MD, PhD, Research Director, Head of INSERM Unit U981, Institut National des Sciences et de la Recherche Médicale, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, discusses upcoming research in metastatic breast cancer.

Jennifer Brown, MD, PhD, Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses targeted therapies and mutations in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, discusses a 2-weeks-on and 1-week-off (2/1) schedule of sunitinib for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

José Baselga, MD, PhD, Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment with PIK3CA inhibitors in patients with breast cancer.

Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, Head, Multiple Myeloma Section, National Cancer Institute, discusses the relationship between risk and treatment in patients with multiple myeloma.

Emanuel F. Petricoin III, PhD, Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics & Molecular Medicine, Professor of Life Sciences, George Mason University, discusses tumor heterogeneity in patients with breast cancer.

Ranjana Advani, MD, Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Stanford University, details the difference between EPOCH-R and R-CHOP chemotherapy.

Howard M. Sandler, MD, the Chair of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses radium-223, a novel alpha radiation emitting agent under evaluation by the FDA for patients with bone metastases from advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

Martine Piccart, MD, PhD, director of medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium, discusses the development of metagene prognostic signatures for patients with breast cancer.

Mark D. Pegram, MD, from the Stanford Cancer Institute, describes research into the antibody-drug conjugate T-DM1, following its FDA approval in February as a treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Meir Wetzler, MD, Chief, Leukemia Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses a study presented at the 2012 American Society of Hematology Meeting analyzing arsenic trioxide in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Leonard G. Gomella, MD, from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Kimmel Cancer Center, discusses the information currently available on sequencing the recently approved treatments for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

J. Michael Dixon, MBChB, MD, Professor of Surgery, Consultant Surgeon, University of Edinburgh, Clinical Director of the Edinburgh Breast Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, discusses the discrepancy in the rate of mastectomies.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, discusses the long-term experience from the COMFORT-I and COMFORT-II trials in myelofibrosis.

Ari M. Melnick, MD, Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the future of chemotherapy in patients with lymphomas.

Emanuel "Chip" Petricoin III, PhD, from George Mason University, discusses the inability of DNA and RNA profiling to predict response to treatment with targeted therapies.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, from the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale-New Haven, discusses the relationship between sipuleucel-T and time to first use of an opioid analgesic in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

George W. Sledge, Jr, MD, Chief, Division of Oncology, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses measuring mutations in human cancers quantitatively.