Expert Interviews

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, discussed the analysis of risk categories for patients included in the KEYNOTYE-426 trial investigating axitinib and pembrolizumab over sunitinib for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

The expert in hematology suggested that these findings represent a clinically meaningful benefit for patients that received pembrolizumab in the study, compared to those who received brentuximab vedotin.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, of the Yale Cancer Center discussed the future of lung cancer treatment to follow the phase III ADAURA trial regarding osimertinib as adjuvant therapy to treat NSCLC presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

The study evaluated venetoclax plus dose-adjusted R-EPOCH in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who developed Richter’s syndrome.

Rencsok and colleagues found that the proportion of white participants in the clinical trials studied has primarily remained above 80% since 1990.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute expert discussed pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with advanced recurrent ovarian cancer.

Germline analysis in patients with advanced cancer may play an important role in selecting FDA-approved treatments and clinical trial participation with germline-targeted therapeutics.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, of the Yale Cancer Center discussed his key takeaway from the phase III ADAURA trial regarding osimertinib as adjuvant therapy to treat NSCLC presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

The MD Anderson Cancer Center expert spoke about the disconnect in women who are at risk for ovarian cancer to actually receive genetic counseling.

Courtney DiNardo, MD, MSCE, elaborated on interim phase II results regarding enasibenib plus azacitidine in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia, and the results from the QUAZAR trial.

Diego Villa, MD, FRCPC, elaborated on the progress made with bendamustine and rituximab as induction therapy for transplant eligible and ineligible patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

The expert hematologist from Plymouth University Medical Center discussed the long-term outcomes of patients receiving ibrutinib for mantle cell lymphoma at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center expert discussed the ongoing Alliance A041702 trial at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center expert talks about the results of the ELEVATE TN trial at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Bijal D. Shah, MD, discusses the progress made regarding CAR T-cell therapy and mantle cell lymphoma.

The Mayo Clinic expert highlights exciting advancements being made in chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for blood cancer.

The breast cancer expert discussed the importance of attending breast cancer meetings like the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and the Miami Breast Cancer Conference.

The MD Anderson Cancer Center expert discussed how researchers are using genetic alterations to drive specific therapies at the 16th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center expert discussed a study he designed to discover why and how melanoma metastasizes, at the 16th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research.