10th Anniversary

"We should continue to see steady gains in new targets and improvements in our targeted therapies that make these options available for an ever-larger subgroup of patients with non–small cell lung cancer who can derive longer duration of benefit from additional lines of treatment," says H. Jack West, MD.

As we identify more targets...there will probably be more and newer, perhaps even better, therapeutics than we have currently, said Dennis J. Slamon, MD.

Targeted Therapies in Oncology asked some experts in prostate cancer diagnostics and therapeutics for their thoughts on the milestone improvements in treating patients with prostate cancer over the past decade.

According to experts, routine biomarker testing has become a standard part of care for several common tumor types.

Many clinicians believe the most significant advance in LBCL treatment in this time is the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

The last decade of immunotherapy progress was based on decades of prior research, including other forms of immunotherapy.

Ongoing and proposed melanoma research will naturally continue to evaluate new treatment types.

The past decade has seen the FDA approve a handful of new targeted therapies for chronic lymphocytic leukemia that are prompting a move toward chemotherapy-free treatment of the disease.

Treatment options have expanded widely for patients with multiple myeloma over the past several years, resulting in significantly improved outcomes for these patients.

Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD, FACP, Richard S. Finn, MD, and William P. Harris, MD, highlight advances in research and clinical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma over the past 10 years.