Mansoor Mirza, MD, of Copenhagen University Hospital, discusses quality of life in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer treated with niraparib (Abstract 930O).
Manuel Hidalgo, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, discusses updated phase III findings on relapse-free survival and first overall survival results in adjuvant GEMOX (gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin) for biliary tract cancer (LBA29).
Sandro Pignata, MD, PhD, of the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, summarizes findings from the ICON8 study on dose-dense chemotherapy integration in first-line epithelial ovarian/fallopian tube/primary peritoneal carcinoma treatment; the ARIEL3 study on rucaparib vs placebo in recurrent ovarian carcinoma; and the ENGOT-OV16/NOVA on quality of life in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer treated with niraparib (Abstracts 929O, LBA40, 930O).
David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, discusses the most lethal of cancers. Although treatments are improving, the challenges are great, including early detection of this malignancy, which metastasizes early in its development.
Marleen Kok, MD, PhD, of The Netherlands Cancer Institute, discusses findings from an adaptive phase II noncomparative trial of nivolumab after induction treatment in triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract LBA14).
Bernard J. Escudier, MD, of Gustave Roussy, offers a roundup of the important papers on renal cell cancer presented at this year's ESMO Congress.
