Interviews

Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of Oncology and Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses the ideal therapy for melanoma in the adjuvant setting.

Ann W. Silk, MD, discusses preliminary results of the CAPRA trial, a phase 1B study of intratumoral coxsackievirus A21 (CVA21; CAVATAK) and systemic pembrolizumab in patients with advanced melanoma.

Joseph Ciccolini, PhD, assistant professor in Pharmocokinetics, Aix-Marseille University, discusses how dosing adjustments may be used to increase the efficacy of agents, such as cetuximab (Erbitux) in patients with head and neck cancer.

Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, assistant staff, Gaussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, discusses a study exploring eltrombopag to enhance platelet count recovery in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Yousef Zakharia, MD, assistant professor, University of Iowa, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses an interim analysis of the phase II clinical trial investigating the IDO pathway inhibitor indoximod in combination with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for patients with advanced melanoma. 

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, discusses an ongoing trial at Yale Cancer Center exploring the use of positive messaging in smoking cessation counseling for lung cancer during the AACR Annual Meeting.

John Mascarenhas, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses the results from the interim analysis of the MPD-RC 112 study, which compared frontline pegylated interferon-alpha-2a (Pegasys) with hydroxyurea in the treatment of patients with high-risk polycythemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET).

Anees B. Chagpar, MD, associate professor of Surgery (Oncology), director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Yale Cancer Center, discusses novel agents for neoadjuvant triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) treatment.

Alfred L. Garfall, MD, MS, assistant professor of Medicine, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses patterns of response and resistance among hematologic malignancies.

Eric Jonasch, MD, professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the phase II study of alternative sunitinib (Sutent) scheduling in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Shlomo Koyfman, MD, associate staff, radiation oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) reirradiation for patients with head and neck cancer.

Christina M. Annunziata, MD, PhD, head, Translational Genomics Section, National Cancer Institute, discusses the phase II/III study of olaparib (Lynparza) and cediranib for patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Everett Vokes, MD, John E. Ultmann Professor of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, physician-in-chief, University of Chicago Medical Center, chair, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses current treatment strategies in head and neck cancer.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, co-director of the Melanoma Program, and head of Experimental Therapeutics at NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses combination strategies for <em>BRAF</em>-mutant melanoma.

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, associate chief of Hematology/Oncology, co-director of the Comprehensive Breast Care Center, associate director of Clinical Investigation, University of Pittsburgh, discusses when to do a multiparameter genomic assay for patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Anees B. Chagpar, MD, associate professor of Surgery (Oncology), director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, Yale Cancer Center, discusses how Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act affects breast cancer practice.

Michael J. Overman, MD, medical oncologist, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses updated results from the CheckMate-142 trial, which investigated nivolumab alone or in combination with ipilimumab in patients with DNA mismatch repair deficient/microsatellite instability high metastatic colorectal cancer.&nbsp;

Robert Huddart, professor, The Institute of Cancer Research, discusses the HYBRID trial which assessed&nbsp;hypofractionated bladder radiotherapy with or without image guided adaptive planning in elderly patients with bladder cancer.

Jennifer Brown, MD, PhD, director of the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses novel agents under investigation for the treatment of chronic&nbsp;lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Scott J. Swanson, MD, co-director of Minimally Invasive Surgery and chief surgical officer at Brigham and Women&rsquo;s Hospital, professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, discusses surgical choices for patients with multifocal lung cancer.

John Robertson, MD, professor of Surgery, University of Nottingham, Royal Derby Hospital Centre, United Kingdom, discusses a subgroup analysis of the FALCON trial, which compared treatment with fulvestrant versus anastrozole in patients with HR-positive advanced breast cancer.

Nathan Fowler, MD, associate professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses managing patients with high-risk follicular lymphoma.

Michelle Fanale, MD, associate professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses patient selection for newly approved agents in T-cell lymphoma.

Michael A. Postow, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses targets beyond PD-1 in melanoma.

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, associate chief of Hematology/Oncology, co-director of the Comprehensive Breast Care Center, associate director of Clinical Investigation, University of Pittsburgh, discusses a study of cobimetinib plus paclitaxel in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

Everett Vokes, MD, John E. Ultmann professor of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, physician-in-chief, University of Chicago Medical Center, chair, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses results of studies that investigated nivolumab and pembrolizumab in head and neck cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, discusses the current state of liver-directed therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer.&nbsp;

Douglas A. Levine, MD, professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses challenges currently facing the ovarian cancer field.

Maurie Markman, MD, president of Medicine and Science, Eastern Regional Medical Center, discusses immune targeting in ovarian cancer.

Matthew Galsky, MD, professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses results of a study examining nivolumab monotherapy in metastatic bladder cancer.