ASCO President-Elect Julie Vose, MD, MBA

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, reflects on the 2015 Annual Meeting and her year ahead as ASCO President.

Laurie H. Sehn, MD, MPH, and James O. Armitage, MD, on Results of the GADOLIN Trial on Indolent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

James O. Armitage, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Laurie H. Sehn, MD, MPH, of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, discuss a first-ever finding on obinutuzumab and bendamustine in the setting of rituximab-refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Abstract LBA8502).

Hematologic Malignancies

Palliative Care

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, and Eric Roeland, MD, FAAHPM

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, and Eric Roeland, MD, FAAHPM, on Palliative Care for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, and Eric Roeland, MD, FAAHPM, of the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, discuss the use of palliative and hospice care for patients with solid tumors vs hematologic cancers and clinicians’ attitudes (Abstracts e20554 and 9524).

Multiple Myeloma

Saad Usmani, MD

Saad Usmani, MD, on Daratumumab as Monotherapy for Multiple Myeloma

For a heavily pretreated multiple myeloma population, daratumumab as a monotherapy showed meaningful, durable activity with deep responses and a favorable safety profile. Saad Usmani, MD, of the Levine Cancer Institute, provides the highlights of this study on the first monoclonal antibody to show promise in multiple myeloma (Abstract LBA8512).

Breast Cancer

Julie Gralow, MD and Clifford A. Hudis, MD

Julie Gralow, MD, and Clifford A. Hudis, MD, on Bisphosphonates as Adjuvant Therapy in Primary Breast Cancer

Julie Gralow, MD, of the University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discuss this important SWOG trial and why oral bisphosphonates should be made available in the United States (Abstract 503).

Breast Cancer

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Richard G. Margolese, MD, Summarizes NSABP B-35 Trial Results for Postmenopausal Women With DCIS

Richard G. Margolese, MD, of McGill University discusses the improvement in breast cancer-free interval with anastrozole vs tamoxifen in patients with DCIS undergoing lumpectomy plus radiotherapy (Abstract LBA500).

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