Interviews

George Somlo, MD, medical oncologist, City of Hope, discusses recent advancements in multiple myeloma treatment.

Arjun Balar, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, New York University Cancer Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the results of a recent first-line study of pembrolizumab in advanced urothelial cancer.

Rahul Tendulkar, MD, associate, Cleveland Clinic, discusses findings of a recent study looking at post-prostatectomy radiation and its impact on prostate cancer mortality.

Heather Wakelee, MD, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, discusses a recent trial looking at atezolizumab for NSCLC treatment.

Meena Savur Moran, MD, radiation oncologist, professor, Therapeutic Radiology, director, Breast Cancer Radiotherapy Program, Yale Cancer Center, discusses considerations oncologists take when treating patients with breast cancer of different ethnic backgrounds.

Chau Dang, MD, medical oncologist, chief, West Harrison Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the future of HER2+ breast cancer treatment.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, discusses how Myriad's myPlan addresses the risk of recurrence in lung cancer.

Anita Mahajan, MD, professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a recent study into the role of stereotactic radiosurgery in treating brain metastases.

Erin Wysong Hofstatter, MD, associate professor at Yale Cancer Center and co-director of the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, discusses the actionable mutations that impact treatment and surgical decisions in breast cancer.

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, medical director of the Leukemia Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the management of CLL treatment in the frontline setting.

Jeffrey Infante, MD, Director of Drug Development at Sarah Cannon, discusses findings of the AM0010 study.

Benjamin P. Levy, MD, medical director of thoracic medical oncology for Mount Sinai Health Systems and the associate medical director of the cancer clinical trials office for Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, discusses the tools currently available for predicting mortality risk in patients with early stage lung cancer.

Maurie Markman, MD, president of Medicine and Science, Eastern Regional Medical Center, discusses when to perform a prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy on a patient who does not have ovarian cancer, but has a known BRCA mutation.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses the immunotherapy combinations under investigation in NSCLC during the IASLC Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology.

Gary D. Steinberg, MD, discusses how medical oncologists can benefit from the new American Urological Association guidelines when treating bladder cancer.

Marco Davila, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the significant need for new agents to treat MDS.

Barbara Ann Burtness, MD, professor of medicine, Clinical Research Program Leader, Head and Neck Cancers Program and Co-Director, Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, discusses the ongoing trials looking at immunotherapy as a first-line treatment in head and neck cancer.

Volker Heinemann, MD, PhD, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, discusses the need for better surrogate parameters for overall survival in colorectal cancer.

Lajos Pusztai, MD, professor of medicine, chief of Breast Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, and Co-Director, Yale Cancer Center Genetics, Genomics and Epigenetics Program, discusses the potential role of immunotherapy in the management of breast cancer.

Nitin Jain, MD, assistant professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the checkpoint inhibitors under investigation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

George D. Demetri, MD, senior vice president for Experimental Therapeutics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard, discusses how sarcoma is leading the way in the breakdown of cancers into different types.

Adam Bass, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the differentiation between the classes of gastric cancer.

Meena Savur Moran, MD, professor, therapeutic oncology, and director of the radiation therapy breast program, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, discusses the margin guidelines that have been identified in breast conservation.

Francisco Esteva, director, breast medical oncology program, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the findings of a biosimilar trastuzumab study in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Erica Bell, PhD, assistant professor, radiation oncology, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the status of biomarker research in low-grade gliomas.

Richard S. Finn, MD, an associate professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of liver cancer.

Morris Sherman, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine at University of Toronto, discusses the process of conducting a screening program for liver cancer.

Don Bergstrom, MD, PhD, chief medical officer, Mersana Therapeutics, discusses the future of XMT-1536 in the treatment of ovarian cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Yvonne Saenger, MD, director, melanoma immunotherapy, Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the impacts of chemotherapy and immunotherapy in melanoma.