Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami | Strategic Alliance Partners

December 01, 2023

Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, highlights key points presented at the meeting, including considerations with PARP inhibitor combinations for patients with mCRPC, how disease characteristics factor into treatment selection for patients with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, and more.

November 30, 2023

Dolphins Challenge Cancer and AutoNation are teaming up to address the links between social, economic and environmental factors and breast cancer mortality.

October 30, 2023

BioFlorida, a statewide association for Florida’s life sciences industry, has named Stephen D. Nimer, MD, director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, “Researcher of the Year.”

October 20, 2023

Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, discusses updates seen in the treatment armamentarium for patients with urothelial carcinoma, as presented at the 2023 Sylvester Annual Oncology Updates Meeting.

October 12, 2023

Elisa Krill-Jackson, MD, highlights the practice-changing effects of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer, as well as whether there is still a role for trastuzumab emtansine in this setting.

October 11, 2023

Kaylie Cullison, an award-winning researcher, MD/PhD student and mentee to Dr. Eric Mellon, will present data on true progression and pseudoprogression with the use of the MRI-linac machine.

September 07, 2023

At the 17th Congress of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, Dr. Penedo received the organization’s 2023 Distinguished Scientist Award.

September 04, 2023

Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are part of an international team of scientists who identified mechanisms by which some multiple myelomas become resistant to initially effective T-cell therapies.

August 24, 2023

Sanoj Punnen, MD, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is leading a $2.5 million, five-year National Cancer Institute grant to explore a new way to noninvasively detect prostate cancer.

August 21, 2023

Dr Sekeres discusses the FDA approval of quizartinib plus chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed, FLT3-ITD–positive AML, key efficacy and safety data from the QuANTUM-First trial, and how this quizartinib regimen addresses an unmet need for older patients in this population.

August 17, 2023

Dr Trent discusses the need for improved awareness around mutation testing in GIST, the limitations of current clinical trial criteria, and the potential for ctDNA to become a longitudinal cancer monitoring tool, helping to prevent invasive means of measuring disease progression.

July 31, 2023

Jonathan C. Trent, MD, PhD, discusses data from 2 phase 2 trials of immunotherapy in soft tissue sarcoma, as well as their clinical significance.

July 31, 2023

Dr Trent discusses the current role and significance of using MRD in gastrointestinal stromal tumor, current guidelines around mutation testing, and research seeking to expand the targeted therapy armamentarium.

July 17, 2023

One of the world’s foremost biochemists is joining Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, bringing decades of groundbreaking research in genetics, epigenetics and cellular processes.

July 14, 2023

Shria Kumar, MD, a colorectal cancer researcher with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has been awarded a Conquer Cancer Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

July 14, 2023

Experts Benjamin Levy, MD, and Estelamari Rodriguez, MD, MPH, highlight current understandings of EGFR mutation classifications in the context of non–small cell lung cancer.

June 06, 2023

OncLive® will be LIVE with OncLive® News Network: On Location at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. Each day, we will broadcast a series of interviews with top thought leaders, to learn their thoughts and reactions to data presented across hematologic oncology during the conference.

May 15, 2023

The American Association for Cancer Research has selected Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as one of the newest members of a worldwide consortium contributing genomic data to AACR’s Project GENIE.

April 19, 2023

Estelamari Rodriguez, MD, MPH, discusses the benefits of the TKIs afatinib and osimertinib in patients with lung cancer with uncommon EGFR mutations.

April 10, 2023

Justin W. Taylor, MD, discusses the evolution of frontline treatment options for patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, including the integration of tagraxofusp-erzs into the treatment armamentarium in this disease space.