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August 04, 2016

Matthew Yurgelun, MD, instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, explains why oncologists should discuss genetic testing with their patients and family members for colorectal cancer, as well as some of the common risk factors for the disease.

July 07, 2016

Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD, discusses the potential for BRAF-targeting therapies in non-small cell lung cancer.

May 16, 2016

George D. Demetri, MD, discusses current trends in sarcoma care, how the field of sarcoma has paved the way for other tumor types, and emerging therapeutic advances in the field.

May 05, 2016

Kenneth Anderson, MD, PhD, discusses the role of APRIL/BCMA and what potential the targeted agent BION-1301 may have in blocking multiple myeloma cell proliferation, as well as reducing drug resistance and immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment.

April 26, 2016

Toni K. Choueiri, MD, clinical director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, comments on the FDA approval of cabozantinib as a second-line treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

April 11, 2016

David P. Steensma, MD, Senior Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute discusses myelodysplastic syndromes.

February 15, 2016

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses the CheckMate-025 and METEOR trials and the potential for nivolumab and cabozantinib in the first- and second-line settings for treating renal cell carcinoma.

February 10, 2016

George D. Demetri, MD, whose teamwork approach has helped pave the way for new drugs for hard-to-treat sarcomas, was honored in the Gastrointestinal Cancer category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group launched to honor leaders in the field.

December 30, 2015

David Reardon, MD, discusses the ReACT study and the potential of rindopepimut and other immunotherapy agents for the treatment of patients with brain cancers, specifically glioblastoma.

November 23, 2015

Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center Senior Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses duvelisib for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

November 12, 2015

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, has helped transform multiple myeloma from an essentially untreatable disease to a chronic condition. He was honored in the Myeloma category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group has launched to honor leaders in the field.

November 03, 2015

Toni Choueiri, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer, Clinical Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Director, Kidney Cancer Center, Senior Physician, Dana Farber Cancer, discusses the potential for combination treatments in kidney cancer.

November 03, 2015

Mutations in MYD88 and CXCR4 can effectively be used to tailor treatment for patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.

October 27, 2015

Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, discusses the future of chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment.

October 27, 2015

Dozens of genetic abnormalities, including 44 mutated genes and 11 recurrent somatic copy number variations, were found to potentially play a role in progression and/or relapse of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

October 08, 2015

George D. Demetri, MD, expands on the challenges with overall survival as a primary outcome measure, the potential of trabectedin in soft tissue sarcomas, and the significance of a recent trial.

September 23, 2015

Limited clinical evaluation suggests a potentially major role for immune checkpoint inhibition in the treatment of lymphomas, but early success has also raised many questions.

September 18, 2015

Molecular profiling of every patient with acute myelogenous leukemia may hold the key to better treatment in the future.

September 16, 2015

Trabectedin demonstrated superior disease control compared with dacarbazine in heavily pretreated patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

August 21, 2015

Charles S. Fuchs, MD, discusses a recent study which found that consuming four or more cups of coffee per day may reduce risk of recurrence by 42% and death by 34% in patients with stage III colon cancer.