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Population-based cancer screening using genetic sequencing technology is an idea worthy of careful consideration, but there are many challenges to implementing such a program.

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, played an important role in the development of ipilimumab, the first drug to target an immune checkpoint as an anticancer strategy. He was honored in the Melanoma category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award.

A biomarker panel containing circulating tumor cell number and LDH level was shown to be a surrogate for overall survival in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the challenges with approaching the topic of obesity in patients with cancer.

Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD, chief, of Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the toxicities associated with immunotherapy.

Mario E. Lacouture, MD, a dermatologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, explains how providers can manage adverse events that result from melanoma therapies.

Martin H. Voss, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses early efficacy signals in the phase I/II DART study.

In an analysis of phase III data, the 5-year survival rate with ipilimumab plus dacarbazine in patients with advanced melanoma was 18.2% versus 8.8% with dacarbazine alone.

Steven M. Horwitz, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses some of the challenges oncologists face with T-cell lymphoma.

Amid continuing excitement over the potential for PD-1 pathway immune checkpoint blockade strategies in anticancer therapies, research presented at the 2014 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting helped established a foundation for the use of anti- PD-1/PD-L1 agents in hematologic malignancies.

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses remaining questions regarding immunotherapies for the treatment of melanoma.

Approximately 22,000 women will be diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in the United States in 2014, making it the nation's second most common gynecologic malignancy.1 The cancer, which often presents at an advanced stage, causes more deaths than any other type of gynecologic malignancy.

For more than two decades, Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH, has been researching the molecular genetic factors that increase cancer risk, notably concerning germline BRCA mutations in breast and ovarian cancer, with a focus on potential preventive surgical remedies and screening programs for women at hereditary risk.

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses obesity and its relation to breast cancer.

In 2014, the amount of medical and other information has only increased, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets make it even easier to access that data.

At the 2014 ASCO meeting, OncologyLive sat down with Jimmie C. Holland, MD, the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the recipient of the 2014 Giants of Cancer Careâ„¢ Award for her pioneering contributions in the field of supportive care.

Although universal insurance coverage for postmastectomy breast reconstruction has been mandated since 1998, a new study has found that the persistently high rates of American women who choose not to undergo reconstruction surgery are due primarily to patient preferences and not a lack of awareness.

At Memorial Sloan Kettering, we offer a variety of clinical trials for patients with mesothelioma at all stages of their disease.

Although malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) remains a rare disease, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has considerable experience with this malignancy, and our specialists are at the forefront of translating new approaches for the treatment of patients with mesothelioma into the clinic.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the findings from the STORM trial, a phase III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of adjuvant sorafenib after resection or ablation to prevent recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is proud and honored to announce it has been named the number one hospital for cancer care in the nation.

Eli L. Diamond, MD, neurologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the results of an analysis that examined the detection of BRAF mutations in urine and plasma cell-free DNA in patients with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis(LCH) and Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) who have a BRAFV600E mutation

William D. Tap, MD, Chief, Sarcoma Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the idea of using combined KIT and CTLA-4 blockade in patients with refractory GIST and other advanced sarcomas.

David Hyman, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase I study of the selective angiopoietin-2 inhibitor MEDI3617 alone and in combination with carboplatin/paclitaxel, paclitaxel, or bevacizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Every patient with a rare but aggressive form of ovarian cancer had tumors with the same type of mutations, suggesting a causative role for the mutations.

A new independently validated lab test is now available that takes advantage of the extensive database of gene mutations amassed by Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a retrospective analysis that evaluated embolization versus embolization plus systemic therapy in patients with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

At the 18th Annual International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Anas Younes, MD, sat down with Oncology & Biotech News to discuss trends in the management of hematologic malignances.

Obesity increases the chance that someone will get the clear-cell form of renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). But once an obese patient has the disease, he's likely to survive longer than a non-obese patient.

James J. Hsieh, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, gives an overview of emerging treatments for patients with kidney cancer.