Toni Choueiri, MD: Renal Cancer Update
2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium
Toni Choueiri, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, summarizes key points from a session he chaired on clear and non-clear cell renal cancer, including information on molecular genetics and its impact on treatment, how to treat patients with non-clear cell histology, and the best strategy for treating clear cell cancer.
Bishoy M. Faltas, MD
Bishoy M. Faltas, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses his team’s work using whole exome sequencing, which may have important implications for selecting patients for immunotherapeutic approaches (Abstract 354).
Maha Hussain, MD
Maha Hussain, MD, of the University of Michigan, gives her expert perspective on changes in the treatment of hormone-naive disease.
W. Robert Lee, MD
W. Robert Lee, MD, of Duke University, discusses this phase III non-inferiority study comparing two fractionation schedules in patients with low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract 1).
Fred Saad, MD
Fred Saad, MD, of the University of Montreal, summarizes in French his session on the latest treatment developments in prostate cancer, including the role of chemotherapy in hormone-sensitive disease.
Paul L. Nguyen, MD
Paul L. Nguyen, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses this phase III trial in which prostate cancer patients were given antiandrogen therapy with bicalutamide during and after salvage radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy and an elevated PSA (Abstract 3).