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October 24, 2017

The presence of metastatic lymph nodes was directly correlated with poorer survival in patients with oral cancer, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

July 24, 2017

William Oh, MD, reviews some of the biomarkers under investigation in GU cancers and possibilities for major advances in the field over the next few years.

July 14, 2017

Andrew E. Hendifar, MD, medical oncology lead for the Gastrointestinal Disease Research Group, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses the current treatment landscape in pancreas cancer.

February 07, 2017

Robert A. Figlin, MD, the Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology and associate director of academic program development in the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses the major novel agents at the forefront of the treatment landscape of renal cell carcinoma.

January 23, 2017

Robert A. Figlin, MD, the Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology and associate director of academic program development in the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses tyrosine kinase inhibitors that he uses to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma.

November 28, 2016

Howard M. Sandler, MD, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, professor of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses potential combination regimens with chemotherapy as treatment for patients with prostate cancer.

December 22, 2015

Robert Figlin, MD, FACP, professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, director, Division of Hematology Oncology, deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, provides advice to community oncologists who are treating patients with renal cell carcinoma.

November 11, 2015

Robert Figlin, MD, and Daniel Petrylak, MD, discuss emerging agents in RCC they are excited about and what challenges still remain in treating the disease.

November 09, 2015

Robert Figlin, MD, FACP, professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, director, Division of Hematology Oncology, deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses newer methods of administering sunitinib (Sutent) to patients with renal cell carcinoma.

October 13, 2015

Robert Figlin, MD, discusses the evolution of TKIs in renal cell carcinoma, the novel agents and changes to established therapies he is most excited about, and the challenges that still remain.

August 07, 2015

Andrew Hendifar, MD, discusses how PEGPH20 improved progression-free survival by 4.9 months in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer with high expression levels of hyaluronan.

July 14, 2015

Robert Figlin, MD, FACP, professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, director, Division of Hematology Oncology, deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai, discusses the ongoing phase III ADAPT trial, which examines AGS-003 combined with sunitinib for the treatment of patients with mRCC.

March 29, 2015

BJ Rimel, MD, discuss the current literature surrounding antiangiogenesis agents in ovarian cancer.

June 11, 2014

Edwin M. Posadas, MD, FACP, medical director, Urologic Oncology Program, Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, discusses a translational phase II study of cabozantinib in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer(mCRPC) with visceral metastases with characterization of circulating tumor cells and large oncosomes.

April 18, 2014

An improved assay for assessing MRD status in patients with multiple myeloma is contributing to the momentum for using MRD as a surrogate endpoint for survival in clinical trials and as a tool with the potential to help guide therapy choices.

December 16, 2013

Brian G.M. Durie, MD, chairman, International Myeloma Foundation, hematologist/oncologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, discusses a more sensitive automated flow cytometry minimal residual disease (MRD) test.