University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center | Strategic Alliance Partners

January 30, 2023

Andrzej Jakubowiak, MD, PhD, discusses initial efficacy results from the phase 3 ATLAS trial in multiple myeloma.

January 16, 2023

Efforts to target the folate metabolism network have entered a new stage, with the approval of a novel therapy directed at folate receptor–α and the potential for additional agents aimed at that target in solid tumors.

November 04, 2022

Five-year follow-up data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-189 trial further confirms the use of first-line pembrolizumab in combination with pemetrexed and platinum improves long-term survival outcomes for patients with treatment-naïve, metastatic, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

September 27, 2022

Pembrolizumab plus platinum/pemetrexed continued to demonstrate an overall survival and progression-free survival benefit vs platinum/pemetrexed alone in patients with previously untreated, metastatic squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

August 30, 2022

Selina M. Luger, MD, FRCPC, Gail J. Roboz, MD, and Wendy Stock, MD, discuss how being female affected their careers and share the scientific achievements they most want to be remembered for in the leukemia field.

August 23, 2022

Selina M. Luger, MD, FRCPC; Gail J. Roboz, MD; and Wendy Stock, MD, discuss how they turned their leukemia career “lemons” into “lemonade.”

August 19, 2022

Selina M. Luger, MD, FRCPC; Gail J. Roboz, MD; and Wendy Stock, MD, discuss what motivated them to continue working toward improvements in the leukemia field, even when outcomes were dismal and treatment options were scarce.

August 18, 2022

Selina M. Luger, MD, FRCPC; Gail J. Roboz, MD; and Wendy Stock, MD, discuss the challenges that accompanied the lack of progress in leukemia treatment when they began their fellowships and express their excitement about encouraging developments that have since emerged in the arena.

August 04, 2022

Giuseppe Lo Russo, MD, PhD, highlights the future role of liquid biopsy, the evolution of targeted therapies for KRAS G12C mutations, data to look forward to with EGFR-targeted agents, and the striking effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the mortality rates of patients with lung cancer.

July 29, 2022

Leveraging EGFR TKIs as a backbone for combination therapies will be pivotal for expanding treatment options and delivering more personalized therapies in the first-line setting for patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR mutations.

July 24, 2022

Judith Karp, MD, Azra Raza, MD, and Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, discuss their proudest career accomplishments, including the investigation of potential treatments using a patient’s first cancerous cell, advances in cytogenetics, and a rational design for clinical trials involving cell cytokinetics..

July 24, 2022

Judith Karp, MD, Azra Raza, MD,, and Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, discuss how their gender has shaped their professional lives, from working as some of the only female clinical faculty at their institutions to being compared to their male colleagues and denied opportunities when working independently from men.

July 11, 2022

Judith Karp, MD; Azra Raza, MD; and Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, share the challenges they chose to mold into career goals, including developing a new technology to study cell cytokinetics, identifying gene phenotypes, and recognizing that leukemia diseases stem from the same root issues in DNA.

July 08, 2022

Judith Karp, MD; Azra Raza, MD; and Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, highlight the decades-long evolution of the leukemia field and express challenges such as defining the causes of leukemia and developing therapies to treat the disease and mitigate adverse effects like bone pain.

June 27, 2022

Drs Karp, Raza, and Le Beau discuss challenges they faced in their early careers as women in leukemia, the ways they overcame those obstacles, and the unique pitfalls and successes they’ve experienced as female physicians.

June 05, 2022

OncLive® will be LIVE with OncLive® News Network: On Location at the 2022 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 oncology during the conference.

May 12, 2022

The treatment landscape continues to expand across non–small cell lung cancer, with the FDA approvals of multiple agents, including targeted therapies such as sotorasib and lorlatinib.

February 05, 2022

Surgical resection remains the key treatment modality for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer; however, both systemic adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapeutics are options that have value for patients.

January 25, 2022

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed renowned cancer researcher M. Eileen Dolan, PhD, as its Deputy Director.

January 12, 2022

Chih-Yi (Andy) Liao, MD, discusses the focus of each presentation at the webinar, which centered on optimizing therapy in advanced pancreatic cancer, the contemporary use of surgery and systemic therapy in NETs, multidisciplinary approaches to hepatocellular carcinoma, and the evolving role of liver transplant and systemic therapy.