Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential Role in Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Staging
December 4th 2023In this sixth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss potential opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence tools in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, and prognosis.
Patient and Family Interpretations of the Language of Cancer Care
December 1st 2023This commentary examines the use of words and expressions in the oncology domain and the implications of different interpretations by patients and their families from professionals employing this language, including academic authors and members of their clinical teams.
Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Call for Evidence
November 27th 2023In this fifth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the need for evidence to support the utilization of different artificial intelligence tools in healthcare.
Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A Diverse Editorial Board
November 20th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain the importance of having a diverse editorial board behind a new journal on artificial intelligence in precision oncology.
Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A New Journal
November 13th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the launch of a new journal that will focus on educating the field on the latest research efforts being made with artificial intelligence.
Dr Markman on Pragmatic Clinical Trial Designs in Ovarian Cancer
November 9th 2023Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the importance of designing clinical trials for patients with ovarian cancer that are based on real-world data and consider the increasing complexity of treatment sequencing in this disease.
Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential for Precision Medicine
November 6th 2023In this second episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain how artificial intelligence tools may be leveraged in the oncology field to provide personalized care.
Reality Takes a Back Seat to Rhetoric Used in Objective Assessments of Cancer Treatment
November 6th 2023It is time for society to address the critical nature of our current unsustainable oncology pharmaceutical marketplace, and it is also essential that whatever solutions are proposed and implemented do not incorporate inappropriate labeling of outcomes that negate meaningful measures of clinical benefit.
Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Definitions and Goals
October 30th 2023In this first episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, define artificial intelligence and highlight the goals of these tools in healthcare.
Artificial Technology and the Future of Cancer Care: The Good, Bad and Potentially Very Ugly
October 25th 2023It is difficult to browse a major medical journal these days and not find an article, commentary, or editorial that discusses the objectively rather profound implications for clinical science and health care delivery resulting from simply stunning advances in computer technology in the arena of artificial intelligence.
Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Looking to the Future
October 10th 2023In this final episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, reiterate that the role of endoscopic therapies in pancreatic cancer continues to evolve.
Revumenib Meets CR/CRh End Point in KMT2A-Rearranged Relapsed/Refractory AML/ALL
Treatment with the first-in-class menin inhibitor revumenib generated complete remissions or complete remissions with partial hematological recovery in adult and pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia harboring KMT2A rearrangements.
Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Additional Studies Are Needed
September 26th 2023In this fifth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, underscore the need for additional research evaluating the role of radiofrequency ablation and other approaches in pancreatic cancer, and avenues that are ripe for further exploration.
Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: The Promise of Radiofrequency Ablation
September 19th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss what is known about the utilization of endoscopic radiofrequency ablation in nonmetastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and the potential for this approach in the paradigm.
Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Utilizing Genetic Testing Results
September 12th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, share how they would best utilize genetic testing results obtained from endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas.