Videos

Sunil Verma, MD, MSEd, FRCPC, associate professor, University of Toronto, chair, Breast Medical Oncology, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, discusses targeting HER2 in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Scott Eggener, MD, associate professor of surgery, co-director, Prostate Cancer Program, director, Translational and Outcomes Research, Section of Urology, University of Chicago, discusses the adoption of robot-assisted surgery and its impact on treatment patterns for newly diagnosed localized prostate cancer patients.

Gregory J. Riely, MD, PhD, vice chair, Clinical Trials Office, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the impact of the stigma of cigarette smoking on lung cancer research.

Stephen J. Freedland, MD, associate professor, Duke University, discusses an analysis presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting that looked at carbohydrate intake, glycemic index and prostate cancer risk.

Grant W. Carlson, MD, professor of surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, chief, Division of Plastic Surgery, Emory University Hospital, discusses the advantages and limitations of nipple-sparing mastectomy.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a retrospective study to determine the prognostic value of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who are undergoing treatment with sorafenib.

Peter T. Scardino, MD, FACS, discusses an analysis presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting: Validation of a 46-gene cell cycle progression (CCP) RNA signature for predicting prostate cancer death in a conservatively managed watchful waiting needle biopsy cohort.

Todd Demmy, MD, clinical chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery, professor of oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, describes lung suffusion.

Anas Younes, MD, chief, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the implications of ibrutinib’s approval for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc, assistant professor, Department of Urology, Population Health, New York University, at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting, discusses how urologists can use Twitter.

Debu Tripathy, MD, co-leader, Women's Cancer Program, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses new personalized therapies on the horizon for advanced breast cancer.

Oliver Sartor, MD, board professor, cancer research, Tulane University, discusses a trial that would study Provenge (sipuleucel-T) in combination with radium-223 as a potential treatment option for patients with prostate cancer.

Timothy S. Pardee, MD, Assistant Professor, Hematology & Oncology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, describes initial results of the CALGB 10801 (Alliance) study, which added dasatinib to standard induction and consolidation therapy for newly diagnosed patients with core binding factor (CBF) acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

James J. Hsieh, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, provides an overview of the treatment of kidney cancer.

Judy C. Boughey, MD, associate professor of surgery, director, Breast Surgical Oncology Training Program, Mayo Clinic, discusses implications for axillary radiation following review of the ACOSOG Z11 trial.

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses ongoing research regarding combinations of immunotherapies.

Roberto Bordonaro, MD, chair, medical oncology, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy, discusses first-line treatment options for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC).

Rana R. McKay, MD, a clinical oncology fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the mechanism of action of dutasteride and its role in a phase II prostate cancer trial.

Richard R. Furman, MD, a member of the Lymphoma/Myeloma Service in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the ability to avoid the administration of chemotherapy when using novel agents, such as idelalisib, to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Sunil Verma, MD, MSEd, FRCPC, associate professor, University of Toronto, chair, Breast Medical Oncology, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, comments on HER2 testing and the utility of Ki67.

Balazs Halmos, MD, section chief of Thoracic Oncology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the variety of immune checkpoint inhibitors that are currently being explored as treatments for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Michael A. Postow, MD, attending physician, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses using PD-L1 as a biomarker of response in melanoma.

Marc Peeters, MD, PhD, department of oncology, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerpen, Belgium, comments on the future of the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

William K. Oh, MD, Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses the process of validating a whole-blood prognostic signature in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Meir Wetzler, MD, from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the potential impact of FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Grant W. Carlson, MD, from Emory University Hospital, discusses some pros and cons associated with contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.

Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, describes a novel CLIA-certified next-generation sequencing-based assay for hematologic malignancies.

Julia White, MD, from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the utility of ablative radiotherapy in metastatic breast cancer.

Tomasz Beer, MD, FACP, professor of medicine, deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, characterizes the immune-related adverse events associated with ipilimumab in a phase III metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer trial.

Smitha Krishnamurthi, MD, associate professor of medicine, Case Western Reserve University, describes GVAX for patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.