Jennifer K. Plichta, MD, MS, discusses key areas of interest regarding the role and optimization of genetic testing in breast cancer.
Nathaniel Myall, MD, clinical assistant professor, medicine - oncology, Stanford Medicine, discusses efficacy findings from 3 clinical trials investigating combination immunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy treatment approaches in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
Drs Lipe and Forsberg share advice for community oncologists and highlight unmet needs in the management of multiple myeloma.
Closing out their discussion on myelofibrosis management, experts from the John Theurer Cancer Center consider novel therapies under investigation and the future treatment paradigm.
Aaron Seth Rosenberg, MD, MS, discusses the emerging role of minimal residual disease to guide treatment decisions in multiple myeloma.
Derek C. Galligan, MD, discusses unmet needs in high-risk multiple myeloma.
Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, MPH, provides strategies to mitigate the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in women with breast cancer.
Pau Montesinos, MD, PhD, discusses preliminary efficacy seen with the addition of quizartinib to standard 7+3 chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD wild-type acute myeloid leukemia.
Mentoring is critically important to the development of young academic hematology/oncology trainees.
Arvind Dasari, MD, MS, presents data from the FRESCO-2 clinical trial evaluating fruquintinib in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer, and provides insights on the clinical implications of the results.
Margaret von Mehren, MD, discusses outcomes with ribociclib and everolimus in dedifferentiated liposarcoma, as seen in the phase 2 SAR-096 trial.
Syed A. Abutalib, MD, associate medical director, Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses recent updates in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Adam M. Burgoyne, MD, PhD, discusses updated findings from the CARES-310 trial and future considerations for unresectable HCC management.
Myrto Moutafi, MD, MSc, discusses the results of a study evaluating biomarkers of resistance in non–small cell lung cancer.
Alexander J. Lazar, MD, PhD, discusses the current state of diagnosis and treatment in desmoid tumors.
Drs Armstrong and Tawagi discuss the board review plans they followed in the months leading up to their hematology and oncology board exams.
Jason Romancik, MD, discusses efforts to maximize the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy in non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Julia Blanter, MD, discusses the risk of developing distant metastases after initial breast cancer diagnosis among Black vs White women.
Naseema Gangat, MBBS discusses the clinical utility of momelotinib and JAK inhibitor selection in treatment-naive myelofibrosis.
Shruti Tiwari, MD, discusses how the treatment paradigms for HER2-positive and HER2-low breast cancer has evolved in recent years.
December 14, 2020 - Immunotherapy agents have shown efficacy in malignant melanoma, kidney cancer, and non–small cell lung cancer, and investigators are examining the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors in less immunogenic tumors such as colon cancer, particularly in tumors with high microsatellite instability and deficient mismatch repair genes.
Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announces several leadership changes, including a new Deputy Director, Associate Directors of Translational Research and Shared Resources, and a Deputy Associate Director of Shared Resources.
Danielle K. DePalo, MD, discusses findings from a study comparing first-line isolated limb infusion/perfusion vs immune checkpoint inhibitors and intratumoral therapy in patients with surgically unresectable melanoma in-transit metastases.
Steven Maron, MD, MSc, discusses the role of PD-1 inhibition in esophagogastric cancer.
Vilde D. Haakensen, MD, PhD, discusses exclusion criteria for the Oslo University Hospital Named Patient Use program for adjuvant durvalumab in non–small cell lung cancer.
Pembrolizumab and platinum-based therapy elicited safe and efficacious outcomes in penile squamous cell carcinoma.
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a potential new way to target pancreatic tumors that express high intratumoral interferon signaling