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August 11, 2016

Chau Dang, MD, medical oncologist, chief, West Harrison Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the potential of neratinib as a combination treatment for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

July 28, 2016

David Ilson, MD, PhD, discusses pre-operative chemotherapy alone versus chemotherapy plus radiation therapy in patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal-junction cancers, and how data points to the latter being the better choice.

July 06, 2016

Maura Dickler, MD, discusses findings from the recent phase II study exploring abemaciclib as a single agent in patients with HR-positive breast cancer, along with an upcoming phase III trial looking at combination strategies.

June 18, 2016

Mark G. Kris, MD, medical oncologist, William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, explains what community oncologists need to know regarding immunotherapy and frontline treatment options for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

June 10, 2016

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, discusses choosing between immunotherapy and targeted therapy in the frontline setting for patients with BRAF-mutated melanoma.

April 11, 2016

Zsofia K. Stadler, MD, provides extensive insight on microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer, the biology of and screening for MSI tumors, and the potential impact immunotherapy could have on the treatment paradigm.

March 31, 2016

Michael Postow, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of patients with melanoma.

March 30, 2016

Kimberly J. Van Zee, MD, surgical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses nomograms as a tool to determine the risk of recurrence for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

March 18, 2016

William D. Tap, MD, chief, Sarcoma Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the mechanism of action of olaratumumab as a treatment for patients with soft tissue sarcoma.

March 07, 2016

Michael Postow, MD, discusses the benefits and challenges of combination regimens versus single-agent regimens, the possibility of targeted agents with immunotherapies, and the management of toxicities with immunotherapies.

February 02, 2016

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, discusses the implications of the expanded FDA approval of nivolumab, and the potential for the PD-1 inhibitor as both a single agent and as part of a combination regimen in advanced melanoma

January 27, 2016

Michael Morris, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the mechanism of action for radium-223 dichloride as a treatment for patients with prostate cancer.

January 18, 2016

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, discusses possible causes of the negative LOGiC trial results, HER2 as a driver in esophagogastric cancer, and what the future holds for lapatinib.

December 28, 2015

As clinical experience grows with new agents, combinations, and sequences of therapy, the use of molecular profiling in metastatic melanoma is likely to become an essential means of choosing among treatment options.

December 27, 2015

Philip W. Kantoff, MD, who has made many contributions in prostate cancer research at the laboratory and leadership levels, was honored in the Genitourinary 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 14, 2015

Cancer drugs in the United States have increased 5- to 10-fold since 2000, but several analyses indicate that this increase in cost does not match improvements in health and overall survival.

December 09, 2015

Jimmie C. Holland, MD, whose emphasis on patients’ psychosocial needs helped humanize cancer care, was honored in the Supportive Care 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 04, 2015

Combining olaratumab with doxorubicin reduced the risk of death by 54% versus doxorubicin alone in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

December 04, 2015

Clifford Hudis, MD, discusses the evolving adjuvant therapy options in HER2-positive breast cancer.

December 03, 2015

Gregory Riely, MD Medical Oncologist, Vice Chair, Clinical Trials Office, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, discusses the benefits and challenges of using next-generation sequencing to identify mutations in lung cancer.