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Georgia L. Wiesner, MD, MS, director, Clinical and Translational Hereditary Cancer Program, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, professor of Medicine, cancer geneticist, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses the importance of genetic testing for colorectal cancer.

Jay Ciezki, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses an analysis of patients with various malignancies who commonly presented with advanced disease.

Jennifer Wu, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses potential combinations with TAS-102 for the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

Robert Figlin, MD, FACP, professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, director, Division of Hematology Oncology, deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, provides advice to community oncologists who are treating patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Anthony S. Stein, MD, professor and staff physician, Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute, City of Hope, discusses a phase II study examining blinatumomab in relapsed/refractory patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

John Marshall, MD, Chief, Division Of Hematology/Oncology, Georgetown University Hospital Associate Director, Clinical Research, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital, discusses curing colorectal cancer.

Guiseppe Visani, MD, director, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant Center at AORMN, Pesaro, Italy, discusses a phase II study examining the efficacy of tosedostat plus low-dose cytarabine in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Jeff Sharman, MD, director of Research with Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, medical director of Hematology Research for The US Oncology Network, discusses clinical activity of entospletinib in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who were previously treated with a B-cell receptor pathway signaling inhibitor.

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MBBCh, associate professor of Oncology, associate professor of Urology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the use of galeterone in prostate cancer.

Gargi D. Basu, PhD, senior director of Clinical Curation, Ashion Analytics, discusses a study that examined alterations in the cell cycle checkpoint pathway in patients with breast cancer.

Joe O'Sullivan, MD, clinical professor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, at Queen’s University Belfast, discusses toxicities associated with radium-223 dichloride for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Sanaz Memarzadeh, MD, PhD, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the director of the Gynecologic Oncology Discovery Lab at UCLA, discusses her preclinical research on resistant tumor cells in ovarian cancer.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, professor of medicine at Yale University Cancer Center, discusses the anti–PD-L1 antibody atezolizumab in bladder cancer.

Renuka Iyer, MD, associate professor of Oncology, co-director, Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center, section chief for Gastrointestinal Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, assistant professor of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses treatment of patients with lung neuroendocrine tumors.

Omid Hamid, MD, Chief, Translational Research and Immunotherapy, Director, Melanoma Therapeutics, The Angeles Clinic, discusses a recent trial investigating the combination of vemurafenib and atezolizumab in melanoma in patients with previously untreated BRAF-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Ashani Weeraratna, PhD, associate professor, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, member, The Wistar Institute Melanoma Research Center, discusses a study examining the effects of aging on Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in melanoma.

Daniel R. Vlock, MD, founder and CEO, Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, discusses a phase I/II study of an anti–CD20 interleukin-2 immunocytokine in patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

James Allison, chair of Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses promising data regarding the use of immunotherapies in melanoma. Allison is particularly excited about a trial, presented at the Society of Melanoma Research Congress, which looked at the combination of PD-L1 inhibitors with a BRAF-targeted agent.

Hans-Christian Kolberg, MD, doctor of Medicine, Marien Hospital Bottrop in Bottrop, Germany, discusses the cost-effectiveness of pertuzumab as a treatment for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, based off of findings from a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Yogenthiran Saunthararajah, MD, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders at Cleveland Clinic, professor of Medicine, co-leader, Developmental Therapeutics Program of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses mechanisms of resistance to 5-azacytidine and decitabine in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes-acute myeloid leukemia.

Brian Baumann, MD, medical oncologist, University of Pennsylvania, discusses the impact of skin creams on radiation.

Lawrence Fong, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), University of California San Francisco, discusses the importance of educating oncologists on the side effects of immunotherapies.

Jennifer Wu, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the potential for immunotherapy in colorectal cancer with mismatch repair deficiency.

Nimmi Kapoor, MD, Breast and Thyroid Surgical Oncologist at Breastlink, discusses the benefits and safety of multigene panel testing in patients at risk for hereditary breast cancer.

Gregory Riely, MD Medical Oncologist, Vice Chair, Clinical Trials Office, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, discusses the benefits and challenges of using next-generation sequencing to identify mutations in lung cancer.

Jonathan C. Trent, MD, associate director for Clinical Research, director of the Sarcoma Medical Research Program at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, discusses sequencing trabectedin (Yondelis) for patients with soft tissue sarcoma.

Tara C. Mitchell, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, discuses preliminary results from a phase I/11 study of epacadostat in combination with pembrolizumab.

dward Garon, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, discusses incorporating immunotherapies into the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Robert R. Kuske, MD, radiation oncologist, Arizona Breast Cancer Specialists, discusses the analysis of the Pooled Registry of Multicatheter Interstitial Sites Experience, which examined the safety of accelerated partial breast irradiation via multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, co-director of its Melanoma Program, head of Experimental Therapeutics, NYU Langone Medical Center, compares the efficacy of dabrafenib plus trametinib versus vemurafenib plus cobimetinib.