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Ashwani Rajput, MD, a cancer surgeon and researcher with a special interest in health care disparities, has been appointed director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins for the Washington, DC, region.

Mark James Levis, MD, PhD, program leader of Hematologic Malignancies and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and professor of oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses an analysis of gilteritinib in patients with relapsed/refractory FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia harboring other common co-mutations or a high FLT3-internal tandem duplication allelic ratio.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, assistant professor of oncology, clinical director of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the outlook for patients with oncogene-driven non–small cell lung cancer.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, assistant professor of oncology, clinical director of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the benefits of liquid biopsies in non–small cell lung cancer.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, assistant professor of oncology, clinical director of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the use of entrectinib in patients with NTRK-mutant and ROS1-rearranged non–small cell lung cancer.

Nilofer Saba Azad, MD, discusses data from 3 recent pivotal trials have influenced practice and/or warrant consideration when treating patients with localized pancreatic cancer.

Jarushka Naidoo, MBBCh, assistant professor of oncology, Johns Hopkins University, discusses considerations for managing immune-related adverse events in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Ana Maria Cristina De Jesus-Acosta, MD, discusses somatostatin analogs and peptide receptor radionucleotide therapy, and spoke to the discussion regarding the optimal sequence of therapy in patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, discusses advances made with immunotherapy in the lung cancer space, highlights challenges that still need to be addressed, and sheds light on ongoing research designed to determine treatment approaches beyond PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 inhibition

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, co-director of the Upper Aerodigestive Department in the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the potential for immunotherapy beyond PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoints in non–small cell lung cancer.

Amol K. Narang, MD, discusses recent advances made in the treatment of pancreatic cancer and explained how radiation oncology can be used to provide further clinical benefit to this patient population.

The new standard of care for the frontline treatment of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer should be atezolizumab and chemotherapy, based on results from the IMpower133 trial.

Matthew Ladra, MD, MPH, discusses the treatment of patients with esthesioneuroblastoma, emphasizing the need for collaboration in this rare malignancy.

Farah Succaria, MD, postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses targetable immune checkpoints in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Matthew Ladra, MD, director, Pediatric Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, discusses the treatment of esthesioneuroblastoma in children.

Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, director, Melanoma Program, professor of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the immunosuppressive microenvironment of nasopharyngeal cancer.

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, oncology fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the importance of preclinical models in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Farah Succaria, MD, postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the potential for combination immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer.

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, oncology fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the promise of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Amy Duffield, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, member, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, discusses the implications for immunotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, director, Melanoma Program, professor of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the treatment of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, associate professor of oncology, co-director of the Upper Aerodigestive Department, Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses second-line pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in non–small cell lung cancer.

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, discusses the 5-year findings of nivolumab in non-small cell lung cancer, their significance, and expected next steps for this research.

Anne Rositch, PhD, discusses important takeaways from her study on hysterectomy-corrected mortality rates in cervical cancer and the significance of cervical cancer screening.

Cynthia L. Sears, MD, professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, member of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, discusses bacteria possibly influencing the development of colon cancer.

Cynthia L. Sears, MD, professor of Medicine, at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, member of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, discusses microbiota in patients with colon cancer.

​Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the role of the PD-L1 biomarker and other biomarkers on the horizon for the use in immunotherapy.

Mark Ball, MD, chief urology resident, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the eventual role that immunotherapy will play in the treatment landscape of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), as well as patient selection to receive immunotherapy as a single agent or in combination.

Jong Chul Park, MD, discusses the potential synergy of radium-223 and sipuleucel-T, which is being investigated in a clinical trial as a potential treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

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