Interviews

Adam J. Bass, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses functional genomics of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, discusses using aspirin as a method of preventing colorectal cancer.

Christopher Y. Park, MD, PhD, hematopathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses some of the biggest challenges in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

Bart L. Scott, MD, assistant member, clinical research division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses breakthrough topics in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), such as mutational abnormalities.

Anne Marie McCarthy, PhD, research fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses a study that examined breast density, a risk that can help target breast cancer, in black women compared to white women.

Philip S. Rosenberg, PhD, senior investigator, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, discusses a study that examined patterns in breast cancer rates.

Charles A. (Trey) Leath III, MD, associate professor, gynecologic oncology, University of Alabama Birmingham Cancer Center, discusses a study that examined clinical outcomes and quality of life in ovarian cancer.

Sundar Jagannath, MD, director of the multiple myeloma program, professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology), Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses patient selection for the treatment of myeloma, especially relapsed myeloma.

E. David Crawford, MD, professor, urology, radiation oncology, University of Colorado, discusses genomic markers in prostate cancer.

Robert L. Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study which examined the impact of bevacizumab in ovarian cancer.

Sundar Jagannath, MD, director of the multiple myeloma program, professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology), Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses advances in the management of relapsed multiple myeloma.

Thomas J. Lynch, MD, discusses the treatment of patients with T790M-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Sharyn N. Lewin, MD, discusses the importance of screening patients with ovarian cancer for a BRCA mutation.

Laura Dawson, MD, FRCPC, professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, discusses screening and prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Deanna J. Attai, MD, discusses the future of surgery and targeted therapies in the treatment of breast cancer.

Mario E. Lacouture, MD, dermatologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the impact on quality of life of dermatologic adverse events.

Mario Sznol, MD, professor of medicine, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the role of high-dose IL-2 for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Omid Hamid, MD, discusses sequencing and combining targeted therapies in the treatment of melanoma.

Jason D. Wright, MD, from Columbia University, discusses clinical trial designs in ovarian cancer.

Jae Park, MD, assistant attending physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses toxicities associated with CAR-modified T cell therapy.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, professor, Yale Cancer Center, chief of medical oncology, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, comments on the development of biomarkers for lung cancer.

Alexandria Phan, MD, discusses the importance of the approval of lanreotide for unresectable, well or moderately differentiated, locally advanced or metastatic GEP-NETs.

Christopher Sweeney, MBBS, medical oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the optimal use of cabazitaxel for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Prudence Francis, MD, discusses the SOFT trial, which examined suppression of ovarian function, and the impact it could have on the future treatment of women under 35 with HR+ breast cancer.

Ian W. Flinn, MD, PhD, discusses the mechanism of action and toxicity profile of duvelisib (IPI-145). Duvelisib is being studied for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Donna McNamara, MD, discusses PARP inhibitors for the treatment of ovarian cancer.

Gareth Morgan, MD, PhD, the director of the Myeloma Institute at the University of Arkansas, discusses gene expression profiling for patients with smoldering myeloma.

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, discusses the unanswered question of which EGFR TKI to use in the frontline setting of NSCLC.

Joan Lunden discusses the diagnostic approach that led to the early detection of triple-negative breast cancer, which was undetected by mammogram and 3D mammogram but was detected with ultrasound.

Irene Ghobrial, MD, director, Michele & Stephen Kirsch Laboratory, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Center Institute, discusses the novel anti-CXCR4 ulocuplumab for the treatment of multiple myeloma.