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Charles J. Ryan, MD, professor of medicine and urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, discusses bone-targeting agents for patients with prostate cancer.

Michelle E. Melisko, MD, discusses a variety of pivotal trials with adjuvant hormonal therapy and other developments in the treatment of patients with ER-positive breast cancer.

Hope Rugo, MD, professor of medicine, director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses late recurrence in patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer.

Laura van ’t Veer, PhD, Leader of the Breast Oncology Program, and director of Applied Genomics, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the guidelines for genetic testing in breast cancer.

Thomas Hope, MD, discusses the novel technique PSMA-PET and how, if approved, it will significantly alter detection of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.

Rahul Aggarwal, MD, discussed the success of recent studies of androgen-deprivation therapy in prostate cancer, as well as its future utilization in various stages of disease.

Adil Daud, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, at University of California, San Francisco, discusses the current status of immunotherapy in melanoma.

Alan P. Venook, MD, The Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the role of chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

Matthew Gubens, MD, discusses how far the field of NSCLC has come with molecular testing, the challenges still ahead, and what novel assays could be on the horizon.

R. Kate Kelley, MD, associate professor, University of California, San Francisco, discusses biomarkers for immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, director, Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program, of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the MONARCH I study in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Thomas Hope, MD, assistant professor, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the Gallium 68-Dotatate PET scan in the imaging of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

Jasmine Rassiwala, MD, resident physician, University of California, San Francisco, discusses the analysis of the “all-comers” downstaging protocol, which investigated whether there were upper limits in tumor burden for successful downstaging of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma to liver transplant.

Francis Yao, MD, gastroenterologist and medical director of the Liver Transplant Program at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, discusses liver transplants beyond Milan criteria for patients with liver cancer.

Alan P. Venook, MD, The Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses important factors for oncologists to consider when treating patients with colorectal cancer.

Alan P. Venook, MD, The Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the potential that immunotherapy may have in the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

Hope Rugo, MD, a professor of Medicine and director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses MYL-1401O, a proposed biosimilar for trastuzumab (Herceptin), in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Alan P. Venook, MD, The Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses future steps for treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

With several novel agents on the horizon, the treatment paradigm of triple-negative breast cancer is rapidly evolving and expanding its reach beyond the standard approaches.

A genomic analysis of poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumors from primary lung and gastrointestinal sites underscores the diversity of these tumors and the evolving need to move toward precision medicine when it comes to treating patients with these malignancies.

Approximately 46% of patients with breast cancer at high risk for recurrence but low genomic risk with the 70-gene breast cancer recurrence assay (MammaPrint) might not require adjuvant chemotherapy.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, discusses the recent findings with MYL-1401O and the role of biosimilars in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Hope Rugo, MD, discusses how to balance the benefits and risks of neratinib, as well as unanswered questions regarding ExteNET, in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Although many drugs are under study for patients with metastatic breast cancer, there is a pressing need to establish methods of predicting response and improving drug delivery, and researchers are looking toward molecular imaging techniques to help reach those goals.

Charles J. Ryan, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), discusses the effects he has seen abiraterone have in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

This year's approval of radium-223 chloride (Xofigo) continues the 4-year run of important new prostate cancer drugs, and Matthew Cooperberg thinks the run will continue over the next few years.

Breast Oncology Director leads effort to honor luminaries who have helped patients survive

Studies that continue to shed light on the optimal use of sipuleucel-T in men with prostate cancer were presented at the 2013 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

The key to advancements in chemotherapy treatment for patients with metastatic breast cancer most likely will come through a better understanding of their underlying tumor biology.