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Dr. Soliman on Impact of MammaPrint in Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
January 11th 2017Hatem Soliman, MD, associate member of The Center for Women’s Oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center discusses the prospective registry IMPACt study, which measured the impact of the MammaPrint 70-gene Breast Cancer Recurrence Assay in the routine management of women with early-stage breast cancer.
Dr. Yamoah on Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer
October 27th 2016Kosj Yamoah, MD, a radiation oncologist at Moffit Cancer Center, discusses reasons for understanding the racial disparities in patients with prostate cancer. Yamoah shared this insight during an interview at the 2016 OncLive State of the Science Summit on Genitourinary Cancers.
Dr. Johnstone on Immediate Salvage Therapy for Prostate Cancer
September 2nd 2016Peter A. Johnstone, MD, vice chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses immediate salvage therapy for patients with prostate cancer and the most common physician questions surrounding the treatment.
Accurate Risk Status Assessment Critical to Prostate Cancer Care
August 25th 2016Julio Pow-Sang, MD, discusses the significance of assessing risk status, options for patients with prostate cancer whose risk status falls in a "grey-zone," and how technology is helping oncologists more accurately characterize risk.
Dr. Fishman Discusses Available Agents to Treat Patients With RCC
August 16th 2016Mayer Fishman, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Chemical Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, professor, Department of Oncologic Sciences and of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, discusses the available agents to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma.
As FDA Considers Approval, Weber Discusses Adjuvant Ipilimumab in Melanoma
May 26th 2015To better understand the impact of the EORTC 18071 trial, the chances of approval in the adjuvant setting, and the challenges concerning the dosage and toxicity with ipilimumab, OncLive spoke with the study's lead author Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD.