Interviews

Steven D. Gore, MD, director of Hematologic Malignancies at Yale Cancer Center, talks about the risk of constantly testing azanucleoside combinations without significant results. Gore says that testing azanucleoside combinations that are not well planned may cause the medical community to overlook an effective combination due to fatigue of constant testing.

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, FACP, Vice President for Government Relations and Chief Advocacy Officer, Chief, Breast Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, talks about the vague understanding medical professional currently have of HER-2 breast cancer and its resistance to certain therapies.

Kimberly L. Blackwell, MD, professor of Medicine, assistant professor of Radiation Oncology, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses upcoming trials for the HER2-antibody margetuximab.

Rebecca Feldman, PhD, molecular science liaison/research scientist, Caris Life Sciences, discusses caveolin-1, which has the potential to play a major role in the treatment of breast cancer.

Julie Gralow, MD, Professor, Medical Oncology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine, talks about the importance of women knowing which genetic tests they�ve previously had done for breast cancer.

Raquell Reinbolt, MD, assistant professor, Internal Medicine at Ohio State University College of Medicine, talks about potential further studies into the lifestyles of women with breast cancer.

Dr. S. Yousuf Zafar talks about the association between the body mass index of patients who are starting treatment for colorectal cancer and both the progression free survival and overall survival.

Dr. Guy Van Hazel speaks about finding a potential survival advantage for extrahepatic colorectal cancer metastases patients that undergo selective internal radiation therapy.

Dr. Roy S. Herbst discusses a 5 year study focusing on the use of antibodies against EGFR alongside chemotherapy treatments.

Andrea Apolo, MD, medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute and chief of the bladder cancer section of the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, discusses promising treatment methods for patients with refractory, metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Jennifer Montes, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses a recent study evaluating the relationship between race and breast cancer findings in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests.

Michael Baumann, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Director University of Dresden Cancer Center in Dresden, Germany discusses the DDFMISO-trial, which investigated hypoxia-specific PET imaging during radio-chemotherapy for locally advanced head-and-neck cancer.

Noah D. Kauff, MD, FACOG, gynecologist and geneticist, director, Ovarian Cancer Screening and Prevention, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses unanswered questions regarding the treatment of patients with uterine cancer.

Salah-Eddin Al-Batran, MD, Medical Oncologist and Director, The Institute of Clinical Cancer Research and Krankenhaus Nordwest-University Cancer Center, Frankfurt, Germany discusses neoadjuvant 5-FU, oxaliplatin and docetaxel (FLOT) versus epirubicin, cisplatin and 5-FU in patients with locally advanced, resectable gastric/esophagogastric junction cancer.

Gary D. Steinberg, MD, Bruce and Beth White Family Professor, professor of Surgery, director, Urologic Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the potential of immunotherapy on the treatment of renal cell carcinoma.

Anna C. Pavlick, DO, co-director, Melanoma Program, assistant director, Clinical Research Education, associate professor, Departments of Medicine and Dermatology, Langone Medical Center, New York University, discusses the benefits of biopsying melanoma tissue before treatment to better target therapy.

Lorraine Pelosof, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, discusses targets and possible therapies for never smokers diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Frederic Amant, MD, PhD, assistant professor, gynecologic oncologist, head of the scientific section of gynecologic oncology at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, the impacts of chemotherapy on pregnant woman and their babies.

Christiane K. Kuhl, MD, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, RWTH University of Aachen, discusses an observational cohort study looking at breast MRI screening of women at average risk of breast cancer.

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD, executive medical director, Drug Development Unit, Sarah Cannon Research Institute-United Kingdom, discusses the future of immunotherapy in melanoma.

David J. Stewart, MD, head, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Ottawa/The Ottawa Hospital, discusses a study that investigated the impact of delaying approval on overall survival.

Christoph Roellig, MD, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany, discusses FLT3 ITD/NPM1 mutation status for patients with AML who are in first remission.

Farhad Ravandi, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the treatment of patients with relapse/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Aziz Nazha, MD, discusses a new mutational model to predict response to hypomethylating agents in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy in myelofibrosis.

Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses new drugs on the horizon for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Joshua M. Bauml, MD, assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, discusses the significant impacts of a new electronic platform.

Scott Eggener, MD, associate professor of surgery, co-director, Prostate Cancer Program, director, Transitional and Outcomes Research, Section of Urology, The University of Chicago Medicine, discusses racial disparities in men with prostate cancer.

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the IMPRESS trial, which was presented at the 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Stacy Loeb, MD, assistant professor, Urology and Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the controversy of screening and treatment in men with prostate cancer, as well as data from the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) of Sweden.