The Mechanism of Action of Durvalumab in the Treatment of Urothelial Bladder Cancer
August 10th 2016Saeed Rafii, MD, PhD, medical director, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, United Kingdom, discusses the mechanism of action of the PD-1 antibody durvalumab in a phase I/II dose-escalation and dose-expansion study in the treatment of patients with metastatic urothelial bladder cancer. He also discusses the next steps in this line of research.
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The Ongoing Research on Bevacizumab in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
August 10th 2016Heather Wakelee, MD, associate professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University Medical Center, discusses the evolving role of bevacizumab (Avastin) in the treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.
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The Benefits and Risks of Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy in the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
August 10th 2016Maurie Markman, MD, president, Medicine and Science, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses the benefits and risks of performing a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy as a treatment for patients with ovarian cancer.
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The Role of PARP Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer
August 9th 2016Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD, surgeon, researcher in prostate cancer, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and New-York Presbyterian, discusses the role of PARP inhibitors in castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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The Convergence of Targeted Therapies and Immuno-Oncology in Sarcoma
August 9th 2016George D. Demetri, MD, senior vice president for Experimental Therapeutics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard, discusses the relevance of sarcoma in the converging worlds of targeted therapies and immuno-oncology.
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The Role of Plasma as a Potential Alternative to EGFR Mutation Analysis in NSCLC
August 4th 2016Nicola Normanno, MD, chief of the Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit, INT-Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy, discusses the recent data showing that plasma can act as a potential alternative to EGFR mutation analysis in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, as well as the current demands for the use of liquid biopsies in this type of treatment.
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