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Stephen Liu, MD, provided an enhanced understanding of oncogenic drivers such as EGFR and ALK in patients with NSCLC, sequencing strategies, and the potential application of immunotherapy in later lines of therapy.

Immunotherapy has arrived in the gastrointestinal cancer landscape, and while not all patients will benefit from these agents, those who do are likely to have long-lasting responses, explained John L. Marshall, MD.

Claudine Isaacs, MD, professor, medical director, Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, co-director, Breast Cancer Program, Georgetown University/Lombardi Cancer Center, discusses antibody drug conjugates in the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Michael J. Pishvaian, MD, discusses expanded testing for biomarkers, using liquid biopsies to predict response to treatment, and the importance of identifying increasingly specific subsets of GI cancers to make treatment decisions.

Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the future of precision medicine in gastrointestinal malignancies.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) induced responses in more than one-fifth of patients with recurrent thymic carcinoma who had progressed following 1 or more lines of chemotherapy.

Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, discusses the future of precision medicine in gastrointestinal cancers.

Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD, director, Phase I Clinical Program, co-director of the Ruesch Center Pancreatic Cancer Program Medical Oncology, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the future of entrectinib in the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the progression of immunotherapy in colon cancer.

Claudine Isaacs, MD, professor, medical director, Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, co-director, Breast Cancer Program, Georgetown University/Lombardi Cancer Center, discusses the future of treatment for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD, director, Phase I Clinical Program, co-director of the Ruesch Center Pancreatic Cancer Program Medical Oncology, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the use of precision medicine, specifically molecular profiling in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.

Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, summarizes current treatment approaches in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, discusses the specificity now required in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Claudine Isaacs, MD, professor, medical director, Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, co-director, Breast Cancer Program, Georgetown University/Lombardi Cancer Center, discusses sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132) for the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Claudine Isaacs, MD, professor, medical director, Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, co-director, Breast Cancer Program, Georgetown University/Lombardi Cancer Center, discusses the role of neratinib (Nerlynx) in the treatment landscape of HER2-positive breast cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, recaps some of the biggest CRC advancements of 2017, and explains what those successes mean for the treatment paradigm moving forward.

Michael B. Atkins, MD, discusses hotly debated adjuvant treatment options for patients with melanoma, and the potential for neoadjuvant therapy.

Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of oncology and medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses the adjuvant treatment of melanoma.

Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD, discusses the progress that has been made in the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer during the 2017 Ruesch Center Symposium.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, discusses the current state of RAS-mutant gastrointestinal (GI) cancers during the 2017 Ruesch Center Symposium.

Michael B. Atkins, MD, discusses the latest IMmotion150 findings and additional developments with immunotherapy in mRCC.

Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of oncology and medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses responses with atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in renal cell carcinoma.

Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of oncology and medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses the excitement surrounding the combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) plus bevacizumab (Avastin) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of oncology and medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses the results of a trial of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) plus bevacizumab (Avastin) in renal cell carcinoma.

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses the results of the CALGB 80405 trial and other ongoing efforts to determine the underlying molecular basis for the sidedness issue in colorectal cancer.

Michael A. Thompson, MD, PhD, medical director, precision medicine, Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic, Aurora Health Care, discusses the future of treatment in multiple myeloma.

Michael A. Thompson, MD, PhD, medical director, precision medicine, Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic, Aurora Health Care, discusses advancements of treatments for patients with multiple myeloma.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, associate director, Clinical Research, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital, discusses molecular variances between right- and left-sided colon cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, and director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers, discusses the next steps following the findings from the phase III SIRFLOX trial, which explored the addition of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), using Y-90 resin microspheres, to FOLFOX-based first-line chemotherapy in patients with liver-dominant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

The moonshot was one of many topics discussed at a September 14 policy briefing held by the Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Participants also discussed the growing cost of cancer research and the implications for policy makers, health care professionals, patients and society.