Hans-Joerg Hammers, MD, PhD, on Renal Cancer: Using Immune Checkpoint Blockers in the Clinic
2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium
Hans-Joerg Hammers, MD, PhD, of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, summarizes this keynote lecture on kidney cancer, which included discussion of the current role of PD-1 monotherapy and future PD-1 combination therapies for renal cell carcinoma.
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).
Srikala S. Sridhar, MD
Srikala S. Sridhar, MD, of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, summarizes important papers presented on bladder and urothelial cancers, including perspectives on immunotherapies and radiotherapies.
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).
David P. Dearnaley, MD
David P. Dearnaley, MD, of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the comparison, in this study, of hypofractionated high-dose IMRT schedules for prostate cancer (Abstract 2).
Bernard J. Escudier, MD
Bernard J. Escudier, MD, of the Institut Gustave Roussy, discusses in French a subgroup analyses of this phase III study of cabozantinib vs everolimus in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (Abstract 499).