Peer-Spectives

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Edward Garon, MD, Director of Thoracic Oncology Program, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, discuss promising agents in development for the management of NSCLC from ASCO20

From ASCO 2024

The time it takes for a novel cancer therapy to go from investigational new drug application to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval is typically longer than a decade. “There has to be a better way,” says Bob T. Li, MD, PhD, MPH, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and associate professor of medicine at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Constantine Tam, MD, Haematologist and Disease Group Lead, Low Grade Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, discuss the progress in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia from ASCO20

Robert Figlin, MD, Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Geoffry R. Oxnard, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Instituate, Harvard Medical School, discuss integrating liquid biopsies into lung cancer care

The biggest data at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in kidney cancer focused on biomarkers, says Brian I. Rini, MD, chief of clinical trials and the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville. He discussed data from KEYNOTE-426 and several other key trials with Robert A. Figlin, MD, the Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology at the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center in Los Angeles.