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Giada Bianchi, MD, discusses the scope of frontline therapy and subsequent maintenance strategies among patients with transplant eligible and ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Christine N. Duncan, MD, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in the treatment of pediatric patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).

Ann S. LaCasce, MD, MMSc, director of Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare Hematology-Medical Oncology Fellowship Program, institute physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses key advances made in the mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) paradigm.

Ann S. LaCasce, MD, MMSc, highlights the therapeutic progress in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma , key remaining challenges, and where future research is headed.

Joyce F. Liu, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and director of clinical research for gynecologic oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the use of PARP inhibitors in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Suzanne George, MD, director of Clinical Research, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and an associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the importance of collaboration in the treatment of patients with uterine sarcoma.

Although TMB is associated with responses to checkpoint inhibitor therapy, more research is needed to better understand how TMB interacts with other genomic correlates of the immune cycle before the biomarker can be incorporated into clinical practice.