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Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University at Northwestern Memorial Hospital is proud to be ranked as one of the top 8 cancer programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
October 06, 2020
Video
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the need for collaboration to cure patients with prostate cancer.
October 01, 2020
Article
Maha H.A. Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the prognostic associations of depth of PSA responses with MFS in patients with nmCRPC and a rapidly rising PSA who have been treated with enzalutamide and other efforts being made in this disease.
September 25, 2020
Video
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the importance of genomic profiling in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
September 24, 2020
Video
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the clinical impact of the phase 3 PROfound trial in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
September 22, 2020
Video
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the safety profile of olaparib as observed in the phase 3 PROfound trial in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
August 27, 2020
Video
William J. Gradishar, MD, discusses the benefit of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and stable brain metastases.
July 24, 2020
Video
Sunandana Chandra, MD, MS, discusses unanswered questions regarding the utility of targeted therapy in melanoma.
July 21, 2020
Video
Sunandana Chandra, MD, MS, discusses the incidence of targetable mutations in melanoma.
July 13, 2020
Article
William J. Gradishar, MD, discusses the activity of trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer and the importance of building experience with the drug before evaluating it in combination or moving it into earlier lines of therapy.
June 24, 2020
Video
Reem Karmali, MD, MS, discusses next steps for optimizing maintenance therapy in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma.
June 16, 2020
Video
Reem Karmali, MD, MS, discusses an analysis examining clinical outcomes and predictors of survival in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma in the era of rituximab.
June 16, 2020
Article
Reem Karmali, MD, discusses survival outcomes in older patients with MCL with maintenance rituximab and highlights other ongoing MCL research efforts to optimize maintenance strategies in this patient population.
June 11, 2020
Podcast
In our exclusive interview, Dr. Gradishar shares the path that led him to specialize in the field of breast cancer, collective experiences that have inspired him throughout his career, and his hope for the continued transition from “shotgun medicine” to precision medicine in the field.
June 06, 2020
Video
Reem Karmali, MD, MS, discusses the limitations of intensive therapy in older and medically unfit patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
April 20, 2020
Podcast
Jyoti D. Patel, MD and Lawrence E. Feldman, MD, discuss second-line therapy in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer and the need for consolidative radiation, as well as the optimal sequence of therapy for a patient with non–small cell lung cancer who harbors a MET exon 14 mutation.
March 28, 2020
Video
Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, and Deputy Director at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the implications of the phase III PROfound trial in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
December 18, 2019
Video
Al B. Benson, MD, professor of medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses treatment for patients with resectable colorectal cancer (CRC).