Gregory T. Armstrong, MD, MSCE, on Late Mortality in Childhood Cancer Survivors
2015 ASCO Annual Meeting
Gregory T. Armstrong, MD, MSCE, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, discusses the findings of a landmark survivorship study (Abstract LBA2).
Howard M. Sandler, MD
Howard M. Sandler, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center discusses the improvement of overall survival with the use of adjuvant chemotherapy following androgen suppression and radiotherapy (Abstract LBA5002).
Sagar Lonial, MD, and James O. Armitage, MD
James O. Armitage, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Sagar Lonial, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine, discuss results from two important studies that tested lenalidomide/dexamethasone with or without elotuzumab and daratumumab monotherapy (Abstracts 8508 and LBA8512).
Richard G. Margolese, MD, and Robert W. Carlson, MD
Robert W. Carlson, MD, of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and Richard G. Margolese, MD, of McGill University, discuss the improvement in breast cancer–free interval with anastrozole vs tamoxifen in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ undergoing lumpectomy plus radiotherapy (Abstract LBA500).
Lawrence N. Shulman, MD and Clifford A. Hudis, MD
Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Clifford A. Hudis, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discuss the delivery of cancer care in resource-constrained settings such as Rwanda and Haiti, and plans to conduct research in basic tumor biology of patients in these areas.
Leonard Saltz, MD
Leonard Saltz, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how the cost of care affects behavior and decision-making on the part of patients and oncologists.