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Videos

Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, MPH, a post-doctorate fellow in Dr. Jennifer Wargo's laboratory at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study that explored the diversity and composition of the gut microbiome in melanoma patients and its influence on response to anti-PD-1 therapy during The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 32nd Annual Meeting. Dr. Gopalakrishnan completed this study under the mentorship of Dr. Wargo, who was the principal investigator. 

Owen O'Connor, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and Experimental Therapeutics, director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the agents approved by the FDA for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), including acalabrutinib (Calquence) and bortezomib (Velcade).

David R. Gandara, MD, director, Thoracic Oncology Program, professor, senior advisor to director, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Davis Health System, discusses results of the ALEX clinical trial, which compared alectinib (Alecensa) versus crizotinib (Xalkori) in patients with ALK+ non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Matthew Kulke, MD, director, Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses treatment options on the horizon in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) during the 2017 NANETS Symposium.

Richard M. Stone, MD, director of the Adult Leukemia Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses monitoring minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD, medical director of the Leukemia Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses sequencing agents in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Jennifer Eads, MD, assistant professor of medicine, senior clinical instructor of medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, discusses the difficulties in diagnosing G3 neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs), and the varying treatment approaches for these subsets of patients.