Geertjan van Tienhoven, MD, PhD, on Pancreatic Cancer: Results From the PREOPANC-1 Trial
2018 ASCO Annual Meeting
Geertjan Van Tienhoven, MD, PhD, of the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group, discusses phase III study findings on preoperative chemoradiotherapy vs immediate surgery for resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (Abstract LBA4002).
Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MBBS, of Baptist Cancer Center, discusses a kit used in non–small cell lung cancer resection that improves staging quality and overall survival without adding to morbidity of curative surgery (Abstract 8502).
Joseph A. Sparano, MD, of Montefiore Medical Center, discusses phase III study results on chemoendocrine treatment vs endocrine treatment alone in hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-negative breast cancer and an intermediate prognosis 21-gene recurrence score (Abstract LBA1).
Thierry Conroy, MD, of the Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine, discusses phase III study findings on adjuvant mFOLFIRINOX vs gemcitabine in patients with resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (Abstract LBA4001).
Toni K. Choueiri, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Laurence Albiges, MD, PhD, of Gustave Roussy, discuss two treatment studies: one testing pegilodecakin with nivolumab or pembrolizumab and the other evaluating an oral CXCR4 inhibitor in combination with axitinib (Abstracts 4509 & 4510).
Bruce E. Johnson, MD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology and ASCO’s outgoing President, talks with Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the incoming President, about what has been achieved in the past year and what lies ahead.