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Andrew Stephenson, MD, director of Urologic Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the impact of active surveillance on the field of prostate cancer.

Jorge Garcia, MD, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the May 2017 FDA approval of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

Nima Sharifi, MD, honored by Clinical Research Forum for research showing that testosterone-related genetic mutation leads to deadlier outcomes in prostate cancer.

Jihad Kaouk, MD, urologist, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the results of a study of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for selected renal mass using an off-clamp approach compared to an on-clamp approach for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Andrew J. Stephenson, MD, director for the Center of Urologic Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses the significance of a study investigating urinary, bowel, and sexual function at 2 years following the management of localized prostate cancer.

An epigenetic strategy under study at Cleveland Clinic combines THU, a cytidine deaminase inhibitor, with decitabine and nivolumab (Opdivo) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. The results of early studies demonstrate that THU may help prime the immune system.

Steven Campbell, MD, PhD, urologist, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the recent guidelines for the management of patients with kidney cancer.

Gennedy Bratslavsky, MD, deputy director of Upstate Cancer Center, director of the Robotic Program for all Upstate Campuses, and director of the VHL Clinical Cancer Center, discusses the evaluation and management of kidney cancer.

Andrew J. Stephenson, MD, director for the Center of Urologic Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic discusses urinary, bowel, and sexual function following the management of localized prostate cancer.

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, discusses the findings of a recent study of patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer treated with cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy or cetuximab-based bioradiotherapy.

The presence of androgen receptor splice variant-7 (AR-V7) mRNA in circulating tumor cells predicted poorer outcomes for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer assigned to novel hormonal therapies, according to results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, associate staff, Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses informing patients of reirradiation as a treatment for head and neck cancer.

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, associate staff, radiation oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) reirradiation for patients with head and neck cancer.

Jame Abraham, MD, director of the Breast Oncology Program at Taussig Cancer Institute, and co-director of the Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program, discusses a head cooling system that can be used to limit hair loss attributed to chemotherapy treatment for patients with breast cancer.

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, associate staff, Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses recent advancements in reirradiation treatment for patients with head and neck cancer.

Rahul Tendulkar, MD, associate staff, Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses post-prostatectomy radiation therapy and its impact on reducing prostate cancer mortality.

Alberto J. Montero, MD, Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the PERTAIN study in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-positive, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The study looks at the impact of adding pertuzumab (Perjeta) to trastuzumab (Herceptin) in aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy.

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, associate staff, Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses risk categories that stratified patients in a study evaluating intensity-modulated radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy to determine outcomes in the reirradiation setting for recurrent head and neck cancer.

Samuel Chao, MD, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, discusses spine stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of metastases located on the spine.

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, an assistant professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine, discusses the ALK inhibitor alectinib (Alecensa) and what potential the agent could have in the frontline setting for patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Velcheti shared this insight in an interview during the 2016 OncLive State of the Science Summit on Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Kevin Stephans, MD, associate staff, Radiation Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses advancements in the treatment of patients with oligometastatic lung cancer.

Despite the fervent advocacy of stereotactic radiosurgery alone, the addition of whole-brain radiation therapy clearly improves local control, decreases distant brain failure, minimizes the need for salvage therapies such as surgery, and, most importantly, decreases neurologic death.

James Stevenson, MD, medical oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the potential of immunotherapy agents as treatment for patients with squamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Jorge A. Garcia, MD, discusses the final survival data from the phase III METEOR trial, which was the basis for cabozantinib's (Cabometyx's) FDA approval, as well as the role the agent will now play along with nivolumab (Opdivo) in advanced RCC.

Nathan Pennell, MD, PhD, associate professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the importance of testing patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to determine if they harbor the EGFR mutation, as well as the agents available to target that genetic abnormality.

Although precision oncology has promise, its success hinges on the availability of clinical trials of targeted therapies.

Jorge Garcia, MD, discusses CheckMate-025, the challenges with PD-1 as a biomarker, additional potential biomarkers, and why combination immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma is still a work in progress.

One of the central reasons that curing cancer has been so problematic is the dysfunction of TP53, the single most common genetic alteration in cancer.

Brian Rini, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, discusses a phase Il study that examined axitinib as a second-line therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

The IMA901 multipeptide vaccine added to sunitinib failed to improve outcomes versus sunitinib alone as first-line therapy for advanced/metastatic renal cell carcinoma.