Oncology experts summarize current and emerging issues in cancer management for patients and caregivers. Information from the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE) helps people to become informed partners in their care.
Dr. Mark Socinski from the University of Pittsburgh reviews evidence to support doublet chemo over single agent for marginal performance status (PS2) patients with advanced NSCLC.
Dr. Mark Socinski from the University of Pittsburgh reviews the survival benefit and implications from the PARAMOUNT maintenance therapy trial of Alimta (pemetrexed) in advanced NSCLC.
Drs. Ramaswamy Govindan from Washington University and Julie Brahmer from Johns Hopkins University answer questions about the current evidence and emerging research on immune-based treatments for lun…
Dr. Julie Brahmer reviews science and early trial results for immunotherapies for lung cancer ranging from cancer vaccines to anti-cancer viruses.
Dr. Ramaswamy Govindan provides a summary of the science behind several promising immunotherapies for lung cancer and the clinical trials that could lead to them being integrated into our treatment p…
Dr. Glen Goss, University of Ottawa and NCI-Canada Lung Cancer Committee chair, discusses the potential and limitations of integrating molecular marker studies in advanced non-small cell lung cancer …
Dr. David Spigel, Sarah Cannon Cancer Center, discusses the benefits and challenges of conducting trials that include patient subgroups based on molecular markers.
Panel discussion with 4 expert thought leaders in lung cancer about how we might best approach testing clinically relevant molecular targets in lung cancer patients.
Panel discussion with 4 expert thought leaders in lung cancer about the prevalence of critical molecular markers in different clinical and histologic groups of lung cancer patients.
Dr. Alice Shaw from Massachusetts General Hospital reviews the frequency of molecular markers in lung cancer by patient sex, smoking status, race, and histology.
Dr. Charles Rudin from Johns Hopkins covers the work from the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium that identified a wide range of molecular markers in patients with lung adenocarcinoma.
Q and A session with Dr. Jared Weiss, Medical Oncologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, about highlights in lung cancer in 2011.
Dr. Jared Weiss, Medical Oncologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, reviews lung cancer highlights in 2011, here describing evidence supporting lung cancer screening by chest CT, as well as evidence on how best …
Dr. Jared Weiss, Medical Oncologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, reviews lung cancer highlights in 2011, with this podcast focusing on ALK rearrangements and new molecular targets in lung cancer.
Dr. Jared Weiss, Medical Oncologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, reviews lung cancer highlights in 2011, focusing here on treatments focusing on the EGFR axis.
Dr. Mark Millard, Pulmonologist at Baylor University, describes how to approach smoking cessation and a range of tools for helping smokers who are motivated to quit.
Dr. Mark Millard, Pulmonologist at Baylor University, reviews the history of tobacco in North America, early research leading to the association of tobacco with lung cancer, and a discussion of how l…
Case-based discussion with multiple lung cancer experts on optimal treatment of a patient with advanced lung adenocarcinoma, EGFR mutation, & now acquired resistance to EGFR TKI after very good prior…
Dr. David Yankelevitz, Professor of Radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, reviews technical advances in CT screening for lung nodules, features suggesting whether a nodule is ben…