Interviews

Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, Head, Multiple Myeloma Section, National Cancer Institute, discusses the standard of care for patients with high-risk smoldering myeloma.

Eric J. Sherman, MD, Head and Neck Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, comments on the use of cabozantinib and vandetinib in medullary thyroid cancer.

Michael J. Morris, MD, discusses an ongoing phase I/IIa study looking at radium-223 with docetaxel in patients with bone metastasis from castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, Co-Leader, Women's Cancer Program, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, describes intratumoral heterogeneity in patients with breast cancer.

Monica Fradkin, RN, BSN, MPH, OCN, Oncology Nursing Education Coordinator, Yale School of Nursing, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, discusses treating patients with chemotherapy and biotherapy.

Bruce D. Cheson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Head of Hematology, Director of Hematology Research, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, describes the mechanism of action of antibody drug conjugates and their use.

Leonard G. Gomella, MD, from the Kimmel Cancer Center, discusses the utilization of circulating tumor cells in patients with solid tumors.

Donna Shalala, PhD, President, University of Miami, discusses the need to bring healthcare costs down at the 2013 Miami Breast Cancer Conference.

Tal Zaks, MD, PhD, explains the mechanism of action of SAR302503, a TKI being investigated in a phase III trial in patients with intermediate-2 or high-risk myelofibrosis.

Howard I. Scher, MD, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses an updated analysis of the COU-AA-302 trial.

Penny Daugherty, RN, MS, OCN, Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology, comments on the presence of a BRCA mutation in her patients.

Martine Piccart, MD, PhD, director of medicine at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium, discusses the changing view of anti-HER2 therapies for patients with breast cancer.

William K. Oh, MD, Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses sequencing treatment in patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

Debu Tripathy, MD, Co-Leader, Women's Cancer Program, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, discusses two important trials in breast cancer looking at extended hormonal therapy.

Implementation of a pharmacist-led glycemic control team was associated with improved glycemic control and utilization outcomes in a population of noncritically ill surgical patients.

Pamela Crilley, DO, explains the benefits and downfalls of prescribing tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of CML.