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Anees B. Chagpar, MD, discusses initial results of the SHAVE trial for patients with breast cancer.

Melinda Liggett Irwin, PhD, MPH, associate professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases), Yale School of Public Health, co-program leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the impact of the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Program on survivors' fitness, physical activity, and quality of life.

Daniel Petrylak, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Urology; Professor, Signal Transduction Research Program at Yale Cancer Center discusses the future of immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

Tara Sanft, MD, assistant professor of medicine, director, Survivorship Clinic, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, discusses survivorship care plans and how they can differ among patients.

Jennifer M. Kapo, MD, chief, palliative medicine, Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of medicine (medical oncology and geriatrics), Yale School of Medicine, discusses how oncologists can address palliative care with their patients.

Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, Associate Director of Innovative Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the Dream Team Melanoma trial, which is investigating using personalized medicine to treat non-V600E melanoma subtypes.

Yale University has launched a multicenter clinical trial, sponsored by Stand Up to Cancer and Melanoma Research Alliance, that will apply the latest in personalized medicine technology to treat metastatic melanoma.

One in five Medicare patients with melanoma waits more than 1.5 months after diagnosis to undergo surgery.

Melinda L. Irwin, PhD, MPH, associate professor, Yale School of Public Health, co-program leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the results of a study she conducted examining the effects of exercise and weight loss in patients with breast cancer.

Thomas Lynch, who is director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, recently sat down with OncLive and discussed key strategies and trends in the management of lung cancer.

Thomas J. Lynch, MD, director, Yale Cancer Center, physician-in-chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Giant of Lung Cancer Care, discusses expanding the number of molecular subsets in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Thomas J. Lynch, MD, director, Yale Cancer Center, Physician-in-Chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, writes about precision medicine in oncology.

A Spanish foundation has awarded a major scientific prize to Yale researcher Joseph Schlessinger and two colleagues in recognition of their work leading to the first personalized treatments for cancer. The 2015 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine from the Madrid-based BBVA Foundation includes a €400,000 cash priz

An increased understanding of tumor immunology has led to seven new melanoma drug approvals since 2011, including the recent approvals of the PD-1 inhibitors nivolumab (Opdivo) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda).

Leading experts in cancer research and tobacco policy are not ready to recommend electronic nicotine delivery systems, like e-cigarettes, as a safe way to quit smoking.

The presence of an immune-suppressing protein in non-cancerous immune cells may predict how patients with different types of cancer respond to treatment, a multi-center phase I study using an investigational immune therapy drug has found.

It is well known that healthcare spending in the United States is unsustainable. It is also well known that despite spending a record $2.8 trillion on healthcare annually (17.2% of GDP in 2012)-more than any other nation-our health outcomes lag behind.

As director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Thomas J. Lynch Jr, MD, wears many hats. And, having built a career united around two abiding goals of clinical discovery and personalized patient care, that's just the way he likes it.

Twenty million people in the United States have died from cigarette smoking since 1965.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at the Yale Cancer Center and chief of medical oncology at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven in Connecticut, discusses new immunotherapy agents showing potential as treatment options for patients with lung cancer.

Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, widely-regarded as a leading expert on developing new cancer drugs through clinical trials, will join Yale Cancer Center in August as a Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Innovative Medicine at Yale Cancer Center.

Improved imaging modalities are needed to help advance treatment of men diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, and several novel techniques are under study

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, describes imaging approaches in prostate cancer

Ellen T. Matloff, MS, CGC, director, Yale Cancer Genetic Counseling Program at the Yale School of Medicine/Yale Cancer Center, gives an overview of the recent changes to the field of genetic testing.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses novel imaging modalities in prostate cancer.

Thomas J. Lynch, MD, Richard Sackler and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), director, Yale Cancer Center, physician-in-chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Giant of Lung Cancer Care, discusses advances in molecular profiling in lung cancer.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at the Yale Cancer Center and chief of medical oncology at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven in Connecticut, discusses the using immunotherapy agents to treat patients with lung cancer.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at the Yale Cancer Center and chief of medical oncology at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven in Connecticut, discusses the unique benefit of targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in lung cancer.

Harriet Kluger, MD, associate professor of medicine (medical oncology), associate director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the changes and challenges of treating patients with melanoma.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses the sequencing possibilities of anti-PD-1 agents in treating patients with lung cancer.