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Oncologists Prepare to Bridge Knowledge Gap on Clinical Trial Outcomes With Patients

May 08, 2023

When patients with cancer are asked to be participants in a clinical trial, they are informed that a primary purpose of the investigative effort is to develop objectively valid, generalizable information that may be of value to patients with the same malignancy or benefit researchers in the development of future studies.

Kim Discusses the Development of LP-300 Plus Chemotherapy in Advanced Lung Cancer

April 27, 2023

Dr Kim discusses the evaluation of LP-300 for the treatment of patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma, the rationale for exploring this agent in combination with chemotherapy, and the ongoing HARMONIC trial investigating the combination of LP-300 plus carboplatin and pemetrexed.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Ongoing Research

April 27, 2023

In this seventh episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, discuss ongoing research such as the PASS-01 trial (NCT04469556) in pancreatic cancer and ways to translate advances in the metastatic setting to the curative setting.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Expectations for the Future

April 21, 2023

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, provide insight into some of the regulatory challenges of organoid development and share expectations for the future of pharmacotyping in treatment selection.

BASECAMP-1 Aims to Identify Patients Eligible for Treatment With Novel CAR T-Cell Agent

April 20, 2023

Looking to replicate the impressive findings with CAR T-cell therapies observed in patients with hematologic malignancies, investigators have initiated the BASECAMP-1 trial, with the hope of identifying patients with advanced solid tumors who will be suitable candidates for treatment in a subsequent trial evaluating the investigational agent A2B530.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Sensitivity of Endoscopic Ultrasound and Cross-Sectional Imaging

April 20, 2023

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, review the potential advantages of using endoscopic ultrasound to enhance current molecular diagnostic techniques in pancreatic cancer.

Hemostatic Radiotherapy Represents Tool for Management of GI Bleeding in Advanced Cancer

April 18, 2023

Hemostatic radiation is a method of managing bleeding in patients with gastrointestinal cancers or GI metastases from other primary tumors; however, a multidisciplinary team is required to implement this method, according to Marnee M. Spierer, MD, MBA.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Success of Growing Organoids

April 14, 2023

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, shed light on the process of obtaining sufficient tissue through endoscopic ultrasound–guided biopsies to generate organoids.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Organoid Collection

April 13, 2023

In this third episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, highlight the three ways in which an organoid can be used to aid clinical sequencing and treatment selection in pancreatic cancer.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Patient-Derived Organoids

April 07, 2023

In this second episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, provide an overview of patient-derived organoids and pharmacotyping in locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Role of the Gastroenterologist

April 06, 2023

In this first episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, discuss the involvement of the gastroenterologist from diagnosis to palliative care in the management of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Novel CDK9 Inhibitor Under Investigation in Solid Tumors and NHL

April 05, 2023

Miguel Villalona-Calero, MD, discusses the unique mechanism of action of KB-0742 and the rationale and design of a phase 1 trial investigating the safety and efficacy of KB-0742 in patients with relapsed/refractory solid tumors or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: An Evolving Field

April 05, 2023

In this seventh episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, discuss the convergence of gastroenterology and interventional gastroenterology in gastrointestinal cancer management and the future of interventional endoscopy.

Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers: Efforts to Advance the Field

March 31, 2023

In this sixth episode of OncChats: Understanding Endoscopy in the Realm of GI Cancers, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, share efforts to increase awareness around endoscopy in gastrointestinal cancer.