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Women in Oncology: Finding Strength and Support in Community

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.

Women in Oncology: Career Obstacles Turned Into Opportunities

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.

Women in Oncology: How Leukemia Treatment has Changed and Stayed Stagnant Over the Years

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.

Leukemia Pioneers Chronicle Career Experiences and Milestones

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.

Preview of ASCO 2022: Dr Everett Vokes

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.

GI Armamentarium Undergoes Changes With New Treatment Mechanisms and Applications

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.

Dr. Garassino on the Clinical Implications of Tepotinib in METex14-Altered NSCLC

September 24, 2021

Marina Chiara Garassino, MD, professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, The University of Chicago Department of Medicine, discusses the clinical implications of the phase 2 VISION trial evaluating patients with MET exon 14 skipping mutation–positive non–small cell lung cancer.