Interviews

Balazs Halmos, MD, MS, discusses the role of EGFR mutations in patients with advanced non—small cell lung cancer.

Lipika Goyal, MD, discusses first-line options for patients with patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hagen F. Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCP, medical oncologist, medical director of the Virginia Mason Cancer Institute and current chair of the NCI Rectal-Anal Cancer Task Force, discusses the treatment and screening decision making process for patients with prostate cancer.

Rana R. McKay, MD, discusses the phase 2 OMNIVORE trial of nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Paul G. Richardson, MD, discusses the response rates observed in the first-in-human phase 1 trial of CC-92480 and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Caron Jacobson, MD, discusses the safety findings from the phase 2 ZUMA-5 tidal evaluating axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with follicular lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma.

Matthew S. Davids, MD, discusses the long-term follow-up of a phase 1/1b trial for patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or mantle cell lymphoma receiving ibrutinib and umbralisib.

Xiuning Le, MD, PhD, discusses the results of tepotinib in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and a MET exon 14 skipping mutation.

Bradley Monk, MD, discusses the phase 1b/2 innovaTV 205 trial in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.

Nancy U. Lin, MD, discusses the latest findings from the HER2CLIMB study of either tucatinib or placebo, added to trastuzumab and capecitabine, for patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have brain metastases.

Shubham Pant, MD, discusses the ESPAC-5F trial methods and efficacy in patients with pancreatic cancer.

Salvatore Siena, MD, discusses the efficacy of the phase 2 DESTINY-CRC01 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer who have progressed on 2 or more treatments in this setting.

Eric A. Klein, MD, discusses the role of genomic testing in patients with prostate cancer and how these findings can impact treatment decisions.

Suresh Ramalingam, MD, FASCO, discusses the key takeaways regarding the toxicities observed in the phase 3 CheckMate 227 clinical trial, which evaluated immunotherapeutic agents nivolumab plus ipilimumab as treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Saad Z. Usmani, MD, discusses the phase 2 SWOG 1211 trial investigating bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone with or without elotuzumab for patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk multiple myeloma.

Sylvia Adams, MD, discusses the synergy between anti-CTLA4 and anti-PD-L1 antibodies as treatment of patients with breast cancer.

Julie Gralow, MD, discusses the use of patient-reported outcomes in the SWOG S1105 trial and different factors for patients with early-stage breast cancer on an aromatase inhibitor to see if they could predict who may be more likely to stop taking treatment early.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, discusses the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial of maintenance avelumab plus best supportive care versus best supportive care alone after platinum-based first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.

Lucy Gilbert, MD, MSc, discusses the findings from a phase 1b trial in which mirvetuximab soravtansine was combined with bevacizumab in recurrent, high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer regardless of platinum sensitivity.

Axel Hauschild, MD, PhD, discusses the key findings from the phase 3 COMBI-AD clinical trial, which demonstrated sustained long-term relapse-free survival benefit with the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib compared with placebo in patients with resected, stage III BRAF V600E/K-mutated melanoma.

Mikkael Sekeres, MD, discusses a phase 2 study of pevonedistat plus azacitidine versus azacitadine monotherapy in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes /chronic myelomonocytic leukemia or low-blast acute myelogenous leukemia.

Julia K. Rotow, MD, discusses the excitement of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancers.

Alessandro Gronchi, MD, discusses a phase 2 trial of trabectedin and radiotherapy in patients with soft-tissue sarcoma.

Alexander M. Eggermont, MD, PhD, discusses the results of the KEYNOTE 054 trial of pembrolizumab versus placebo in patients with high-risk stage III melanoma after a complete resection.

Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, discusses the clinical implications of a retrospective analysis of 26 patients with myelofibrosis who received benefit from ruxolitinib when it was rechallenged.

Manish A. Shah, MD, discusses the design and efficacy of the DESTINY-Gastric01 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Thomas Hope, MD, discusses the efficacy of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for the detection of pelvic nodal metastases in patients intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer considered for radical prostatectomy with lymph node dissection.

Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, discusses the potential role of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy as treatment of solid tumors now that they have demonstrated safety and efficacy in some Hematologic Malignancies.

Chung-Han Lee, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy of a phase 2 study of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in patient with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma who have progressed on an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Hun Ju Lee, MD, discusses the clinical activity of cirmtuzumab, an anti-ROR1 antibody, in combination with ibrutinib in a phase 1b/2 study of patients with mantle cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.