Expert Interviews

Dr. Leisha Emens of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center discusses the overall survival in the KATE2 study.

Cancer Network spoke with Paul B. Chapman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, about pursuing adjuvant immunotherapy for patients with melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Hussein Tawbi, MD, PhD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, about the efficacy and safety of the combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with symptomatic melanoma brain metastases.

Cancer Network spoke with Marleen Meyers, MD, about evidence on low-dose tamoxifen vs placebo in women who had surgery for their ductal carcinoma in situ.

Cancer Network spoke with Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, about long-term outcomes and responses to retreatment in patients with melanoma receiving anti-PD1 therapy.

Cancer Network spoke with Paul B. Chapman, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center about strategies and research surrounding optimized targeted therapy in melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Hussein Abdul-Hassan Tawbi, MD, PhD, on the results of a phase II study of oral azacitidine in combination with pembrolizumab in metastatic melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Anna Pavlick, MD, of NYU's Perlmutter Cancer Center, regarding whether there is one correct answer to front-line therapy for the treatment of advanced melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago Medical Center, about analyzing the tumor microenvironment to guide immunotherapy in melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Janice M. Mehnert, MD, of Rutgers Cancer Institute, about the use of immunotherapy vs BRAF/MEK inhibitors in the adjuvant setting for melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Ryan J. Sullivan, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, about the debate between immunotherapy sequencing vs targeted therapy for melanoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Hope S. Rugo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, about the results of the phase III SOPHIA trial in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Cancer Network spoke with Ahmad Tarhini, MD, PhD, about the results of the phase III United States Intergroup E1609 trial, presented at ASCO 2019.

Cancer Network spoke with Rimas V. Lukas, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, about the combination of controlled interleukin-12 with a PD-1 inhibitor in recurrent glioblastoma.

Cancer Network spoke with Karen L. Reckamp, MD, of City of Hope, about the link between several gene mutations and lung cancer in smokers vs nonsmokers.

Cancer Network spoke with Anna F. Farago, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, about the effect of trilaciclib on myelosuppression in patients with previously treated extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer receiving topotecan.

Cancer Network spoke with Kathryn Cecilia Arbour, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, about the most recent research on checkpoint inhibitors in oncology.

Cancer Network spoke with Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko, MD, PhD, of Emory University, about talazoparib for patients with HRRD-positive stage IV squamous cell lung cancer.

Cancer Network spoke with Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD, of Emory University, about pemetrexed, bevacizumab, or both for advanced non-squamous NSCLC.