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Erika P. Hamilton, MD, director, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Program, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the FDA approval of pertuzumab (Perjeta) for use in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and chemotherapy for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Johanna C. Bendell, MD, medical oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in colorectal cancer.

Johanna C. Bendell, MD, medical oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) that are microsatellite stable.

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, director of the Breast and Gynecologic Research Program at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses tucatinib in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Simon Chowdhury, MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, consultant medical oncologist specializing in urological cancer, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, United Kingdom, discusses what roles pazopanib (Votrient) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) have as monotherapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Denise Yardley, MD, senior investigator at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the results of the APT and APHINITY trials for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Susan Garwood, MD, discusses biopsy advancements and the future of techniques in lung cancer.

Johanna C. Bendell, MD, director of GI Oncology Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the FDA approval of regorafenib (Stivarga) for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Andrew Kennedy, MD, physician-in-chief and radiation oncologist at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the next steps following the SIRFLOX clinical trial for patients with liver-metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

Johanna C. Bendell, MD, director of GI Oncology Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the remaining questions researchers have with regorafenib (Stivarga) for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Investigators are seeking to determine whether adding tucatinib (ONT-380), a novel small-molecule HER2 inhibitor, to standard therapies will improve outcomes for patients with progressive metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, including those with brain tumors.

David Spigel, MD, chief scientific officer, director, Lung Cancer Research Program, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the results of cohort G from the KEYNOTE-021 trial, which explored pembrolizumab (Keytruda) combined with pemetrexed/carboplatin as a frontline treatment for patients with nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Todd Bauer, MD, associate director, Drug Development, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses how phase I clinical trial programs are evolving and becoming more beneficial for patients with cancer.

Howard A. “Skip” Burris, MD, president of Clinical Operations and chief medical officer at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, a 2014 Giant of Cancer Care in Drug Development, discusses the biggest remaining challenges in treating patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, director, Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Program, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses necessary research oncologists should begin conducting in the space of HER2-positive breast cancer.

Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, medical director, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, United Kingdom, discusses novel immunotherapy approaches for the treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

Denise A. Yardley, MD, discusses two novel agents on the horizon for HER2-positive breast cancer.

Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, MRCP, discusses the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab, the encouraging findings of it in Study 1108, and the evolving landscape of bladder cancer.

Howard A. "Skip" Burris, MD, offers insight on patient-reported outcomes from the MARIANNE trial and highlights exciting advancements in the neoadjuvant landscape of HER2-positive breast cancer.

During the past 2 years, there have been a number of advancements in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer that include the development of novel agents and new strategies in several disease settings, resulting in improved outcomes for patients.

Erika P. Hamilton, MD, discusses the significance of these trials and the impact ONT-380 may have on the treatment paradigm of HER2-positive breast cancer.

Howard
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views on key developments in the
oncology field.

Jeffrey R. Infante, MD, discusses the fully human PD-L1 IgG1 antibody avelumab, which demonstrated clinical activity in patients with previously treated, recurrent/refractory ovarian cancer in a phase Ib open-label expansion trial.

Jeffrey R. Infante, MD, director, Drug Development Program, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the potential impact avelumab could have on the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, executive medical director, Drug Development Unit, Sarah Cannon Research Institute-United Kingdom, discusses the overall survival results of the COMBI-d study, which examined the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600-mutated melanoma.

OncLive® will team with Sarah Cannon, the global cancer enterprise of Hospital Corporation of America, as it further expands its Strategic Alliance Partnership Program for raising awareness of cancer treatment and research.

For insight on the potential of ONT-380 in HER2-positive breast cancer, OncLive spoke with the lead author of the primary phase Ib analysis, Erika P. Hamilton, MD.

Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, MRCP, medical director, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses factors that influence clinical outcomes to olaparib in patients with BRCA1/2-mutant ovarian cancer.

Holli Dilks, PhD, Director, Personalized Medicine Operations Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses molecular profiling.

Ian Flinn, MD, PhD, director of the hematologic malignancies program at Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses how the approvals of idelalisib and ibrutinib will change treatment paradigms for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and low-grade lymphoma.