Expert Interviews

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network partnered with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the National Minority Quality Forum to produce recommendations addressing issues regarding health equity and disparities among minority patients with cancer.

Dr. Rebecca Previs from the Duke Cancer Center reviews frontline therapy options for patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Ronnie Shapira-Frommer, MD, during the Society of Gynecological Oncology 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer about data focusing on a cohort of patients with vulvar cancer treated with pembrolizumab monotherapy.

An expert in gynecologic oncology talks about the role of bevacizumab in the front-line management of advanced ovarian cancer.

Dr. Rebecca Previs reviews first line treatment options for patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Rimel, of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, focused her attention on the main takeaways to come out from the 2021 Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.

CancerNetwork® spoke with Nikki Martin of the LUNGevity Foundation regarding the “No One Missed” campaign working to provide education and awareness to patients with lung cancer.

Christopher Lieu, MD, discusses the standard of care for genomic profiling in early stage CRC.

CancerNetwork® discussed updates in the treatment of gynecologic cancers with Ursula A. Matulonis, MD.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Thomas Hutson, DO, PharmD, to discuss results of the CLEAR trial presented at the recent Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Drs Toni Choueiri and Robert J. Motzer highlight various strategies with novel-based therapies being explored to address limitations surrounding the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Considerations regarding the value of using the IMDC (International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium) criteria to risk-stratify patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma as novel therapies become more widely used.

Recommendations regarding how to use novel combinations such as lenvatinib and everolimus, or lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab as frontline therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Treatment-related adverse events to be mindful of when treating patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma with a TKI/IO regimen, such as lenvatinib and pembrolizumab, in the frontline setting.

Robert J. Motzer, MD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the rationale for studying lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab or everolimus for frontline metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment and reacts to outcomes of the phase 3 CLEAR study as presented at ASCO GU 2021.

Drs Toni Choueiri and Robert J. Motzer discuss factors that impact their decisions for treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the first-line setting and highlight their go-to regimens.

Toni Choueiri, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, comments on the impact of emerging data presented on newer, novel combination therapies as upfront treatment for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Drs Toni Choueiri and Robert J. Motzer reflect on recent data supporting the use of TKI/I-O combination regimens for frontline treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Conor E. Steuer, MD, to discuss a recently published prospective study which found a high rate of smoking reduction and cessation in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Trevor J. Pugh, PhD, to discuss a novel protocol for detecting mismatch repair deficiency.