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April 26, 2016

Toni K. Choueiri, MD, clinical director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, comments on the FDA approval of cabozantinib as a second-line treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

April 11, 2016

David P. Steensma, MD, Senior Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute discusses myelodysplastic syndromes.

February 15, 2016

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses the CheckMate-025 and METEOR trials and the potential for nivolumab and cabozantinib in the first- and second-line settings for treating renal cell carcinoma.

February 10, 2016

George D. Demetri, MD, whose teamwork approach has helped pave the way for new drugs for hard-to-treat sarcomas, was honored in the Gastrointestinal Cancer category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group launched to honor leaders in the field.

December 30, 2015

David Reardon, MD, discusses the ReACT study and the potential of rindopepimut and other immunotherapy agents for the treatment of patients with brain cancers, specifically glioblastoma.

November 23, 2015

Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center Senior Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses duvelisib for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

November 12, 2015

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, has helped transform multiple myeloma from an essentially untreatable disease to a chronic condition. He was honored in the Myeloma category with a 2014 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group has launched to honor leaders in the field.

November 03, 2015

Toni Choueiri, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer, Clinical Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Director, Kidney Cancer Center, Senior Physician, Dana Farber Cancer, discusses the potential for combination treatments in kidney cancer.

November 03, 2015

Mutations in MYD88 and CXCR4 can effectively be used to tailor treatment for patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.

October 27, 2015

Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, discusses the future of chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment.

October 27, 2015

Dozens of genetic abnormalities, including 44 mutated genes and 11 recurrent somatic copy number variations, were found to potentially play a role in progression and/or relapse of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

October 08, 2015

George D. Demetri, MD, expands on the challenges with overall survival as a primary outcome measure, the potential of trabectedin in soft tissue sarcomas, and the significance of a recent trial.

September 23, 2015

Limited clinical evaluation suggests a potentially major role for immune checkpoint inhibition in the treatment of lymphomas, but early success has also raised many questions.

September 18, 2015

Molecular profiling of every patient with acute myelogenous leukemia may hold the key to better treatment in the future.

September 16, 2015

Trabectedin demonstrated superior disease control compared with dacarbazine in heavily pretreated patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

August 21, 2015

Charles S. Fuchs, MD, discusses a recent study which found that consuming four or more cups of coffee per day may reduce risk of recurrence by 42% and death by 34% in patients with stage III colon cancer.

August 21, 2015

Research evidence has been mounting that PARP inhibitors are not just for gynecologic malignancies-or for patients whose tumors harbor inherited BRCA defects.

August 11, 2015

Frontline treatment with intraperitoneal chemotherapy is commonly underutilized for a majority of patients with optimally cytoreduced stage III ovarian cancer, despite recommendations for its use and a clear demonstration of improved overall survival.

August 10, 2015

Concomitant therapy with docetaxel and androgen deprivation therapy initiated at the start of treatment for men with metastatic prostate cancer resulted in an increased survival of 13.6 months compared with men who received ADT alone.

August 09, 2015

Blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway is a novel and attractive treatment approach to many cancers, including malignant glioma, because of its potential to restore anti-tumor immunity.