Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD

Toufic Kachaamy, MD, FASGE, AGAF, is an interventional program specialist, chief of medicine and director of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, City of Hope, Phoenix, and the founder and chair of the Endoscopic Oncology special interest group.

Articles

Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Looking to the Future

March 29th 2024

In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss next steps for research, including vaccination strategies, personalized cellular therapies, and more.

Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Research, Including Organoids and Ablation

March 29th 2024

In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss research efforts being made with organoids to address existing questions with immunotherapy and the exploration of multimodality approaches to improve outcomes.

Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: A Shift in Drug Discovery

March 29th 2024

In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss the potential benefits of utilizing immunotherapy approaches earlier on in the disease course.

Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Assays for Early Detection and Prevention

March 29th 2024

In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts explain the challenges faced with preventing or detecting these cancers early and the understanding needed to develop effective early detection methods and move the needle forward.

Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies: Is Multicancer Early Detection Becoming a Reality?

March 29th 2024

In this episode of OncChats: Leveraging Immunotherapy in GI Malignancies, experts discuss the potential for early detection multiomic assays and the work that still needs to be done to encourage their widespread use.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Looking to the Future

December 25th 2023

In this final episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss a roadmap of artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the next 5 to 10 years.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Matching Patients With Clinical Trials

December 18th 2023

In this eighth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain how artificial intelligence tools are being developed to match the right patient to the right drug on the right clinical trial.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Improving Patient Interactions and Experience

December 11th 2023

In this seventh episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss how artificial intelligence tools may be utilized to improve wait time for treatment, to provide more time for provider-patient interactions, and more.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential Role in Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Staging

December 4th 2023

In this sixth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss potential opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence tools in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, and prognosis.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Call for Evidence

November 27th 2023

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the need for evidence to support the utilization of different artificial intelligence tools in healthcare.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A Diverse Editorial Board

November 20th 2023

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain the importance of having a diverse editorial board behind a new journal on artificial intelligence in precision oncology.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A New Journal

November 13th 2023

In this third episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the launch of a new journal that will focus on educating the field on the latest research efforts being made with artificial intelligence.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential for Precision Medicine

November 6th 2023

In this second episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain how artificial intelligence tools may be leveraged in the oncology field to provide personalized care.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Definitions and Goals

October 30th 2023

In this first episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, define artificial intelligence and highlight the goals of these tools in healthcare.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Looking to the Future

October 10th 2023

In this final episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, reiterate that the role of endoscopic therapies in pancreatic cancer continues to evolve.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer Ablation and Immune Modulation

October 3rd 2023

In this sixth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, briefly discuss pancreatic cancer ablation and immune modulation.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Additional Studies Are Needed

September 26th 2023

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, underscore the need for additional research evaluating the role of radiofrequency ablation and other approaches in pancreatic cancer, and avenues that are ripe for further exploration.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: The Promise of Radiofrequency Ablation

September 19th 2023

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss what is known about the utilization of endoscopic radiofrequency ablation in nonmetastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and the potential for this approach in the paradigm.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Utilizing Genetic Testing Results

September 12th 2023

In this third episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, share how they would best utilize genetic testing results obtained from endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Finding Actionable Mutations

September 5th 2023

In this second episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, discuss the techniques used such as endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies to collect adequate tissue to perform genomic analyses in pancreatic cancer, and the likelihood for finding actionable mutations in this population.