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January 19, 2017

C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, chief of Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the use of the triplet of daratumumab, bortezomib, and dexamethasone in the treatment of patients with relapsed myeloma.

January 18, 2017

Robert J. Motzer, MD, attending physician, Genitourinary Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, discusses the FDA approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) versus everolimus (Afinitor) for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

January 18, 2017

Since the FDA approval of nivolumab in May 2016, researchers continue to explore agent as well as its fellow PD-1 inhibitor, pembrolizumab, in various treatment settings for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

January 13, 2017

The fields of mantle cell lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had a handful of updates presented during the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting.

January 11, 2017

Emerging therapies in myeloproliferative disorders such as chronic myeloid leukemia, polycythemia vera, and myelofibrosis could have the potential to shake up the landscape.

January 07, 2017

Though T-cell lymphoma is a more rare hematologic malignancy, researchers are exploring therapies such as brentuximab vedotin to improve outcomes for these patients.

January 06, 2017

C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, chief of Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses unanswered questions following the results of the phase III POLLUX and CASTOR studies, which explored the addition of daratumumab (Darzalex) to lenalidomide (Revlimid) and dexamethasone or bortezomib (Velcade) and dexamethasone, respectively.

January 04, 2017

A combination regimen of the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax plus low-dose cytarabine demonstrated an acceptable safety and pharmacokinetic profile in elderly patients with treatment-naïve acute myeloid leukemia.

January 04, 2017

Mark G. Kris, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses what the future holds for the development of immunotherapy and targeted therapy in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

January 04, 2017

Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, medical director of Quality Informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment options for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who fail on ibrutinib or idelalisib.

January 03, 2017

Novel therapies are being investigated in 2 areas of hematologic malignancies, but the first-line setting is where the brunt of research needs to be conducted.

December 29, 2016

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service, Department of Medicine and Ludwig Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2014 Giant of Cancer Care in Melanoma, discusses an ongoing clinical trial that will explore optimal treatments for patients with melanoma who fail on a PD-1 inhibitor as a single agent.

December 15, 2016

Even with 1 FDA approval of an immunotherapeutic agent in urothelial carcinoma—and more expected in the coming months—chemotherapy regimens will continue to play a pivotal part in the treatment of patients with this disease.

December 15, 2016

Three recent drug approvals have shifted the landscape in the second-line setting for renal cell carcinoma, and researchers are now setting their sights on transforming upfront care.

December 15, 2016

Anas Younes, MD, chief of the Lymphoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, discusses highlights from the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting focused on the area of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

December 15, 2016

To great fanfare, Hackensack Meridian Health of New Jersey and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center announced a co-branding partnership that they say would lead to highly fruitful collaborative research and make hundreds of clinical trial opportunities available to their patients.

December 14, 2016

Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses some of the novel approaches with immunotherapy that he would like to explore in the future treatment of patients with gynecologic cancers.

December 13, 2016

Immunotherapy may be having a moment in the changing landscape of bladder cancer, but expert Gopa Iyer, MD, advises that there is much research to be done before physicians replace chemotherapy with these agents upfront.

December 13, 2016

For patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, the radiopharmaceutical radium-223 dichloride has proven to be an efficacious bone-targeted agent.

December 06, 2016

Dean F. Bajorin, MD, professor of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the standard chemotherapy approaches for patients with metastatic and muscle-invasive bladder cancer.