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The University of Florida Health Cancer Center stands alone in the state of Florida in its unique ability to blend comprehensive patient care and innovative research in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. It boasts a membership of more than 300 researchers and clinicians from across the University of Florida and UF Health, the Southeast’s most comprehensive academic health center on the main campus of one of the nation’s top five public research universities. The Cancer Center is dedicated to providing leading-edge cancer care and conducting original research to prevent, detect, treat and ultimately cure cancer while addressing the unique challenges of the cancer burden faced by the population we serve. UF Health includes more than 30,000 faculty and staff and manages more than 3 million inpatient and outpatient visits each year by leveraging three not-for-profit hospital systems — UF Health Shands, UF Health Jacksonville and UF Health Central Florida — that include 10 hospitals. In 2023, the center became the 72nd NCI-Designated Cancer Center and the only one based at a public university in the state of Florida.

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Dr Rogers on the NEO-Nal-IRI Trial in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

July 21, 2023

Sherise Rogers, MD, MPH, discusses the rationale for investigating irinotecan liposome injection plus 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin in the preoperative treatment of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Dr Hitchcock on the Rationale for the ERAsur Trial in Limited mCRC

June 15, 2023

Kathryn Hitchcock, MD, PhD, discusses the rationale for the ongoing phase 3 ERAsur trial investigating total ablative therapy in patients with limited metastatic colorectal cancer and details the methodologies being used in this study.

Traveling Through the Lung Cancer Treatment Paradigm: Managing irAEs With Corticosteroids

March 01, 2023

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Traveling Through the Lung Cancer Treatment Paradigm, Aaron Franke, MD, discusses the management of immune-related adverse effects and the goal of mitigating steroid use for patients with lung cancer.

Traveling Through the Lung Cancer Treatment Paradigm: Taking Advantage of Neoadjuvant Therapy

February 22, 2023

In this third episode of OncChats: Traveling Through the Lung Cancer Treatment Paradigm, Aaron Franke, MD, discusses the expanding role of neoadjuvant therapy in non–small cell lung cancer and efforts to better identify patients who can benefit from curative-intent treatment.

Pembrolizumab Plus Total Neoadjuvant Therapy Improves Long-Term OS in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

February 13, 2023

Thomas J. George, MD, FACP, highlights the long-term data from the NRG-GI002 trial, the next steps for exploring subsets of patients who may benefit from the addition of pembrolizumab or veliparib to total neoadjuvant therapy, and what the use of total neoadjuvant therapy has meant for patients with stage II/III locally advanced rectal cancer.