In this interview, Laura Zitella will be discussing challenges and considerations for management and prevention of infection in the oncology setting—in both patients with solid tumors and those with hematologic malignancies.

Cancer Network Podcasts

ONS: Infection Risk, Prevention, and Management

This interview covers standards for healthcare provider competency in offering comprehensive genetic services, and highlighting genetics/genomics resources for nurses.

ONS: Genetics and Genomics Matters

In this interview, Tami Borneman, who is presenting a poster at the 38th Annual ONS Congress, will discuss spirituality: what it means, and how spiritual interventions can benefit patients with cancer.

ONS: Understanding Spirituality

This interview covers symptom management and quality-of-life outcomes in cancer clinical trials, which are being incorporated more readily as secondary and sometimes primary trial endpoints.

Patient Quality of Life Part II

In this interview, ahead of the AACR annual meeting, we speak with Dr. Julie Brahmer, of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who is giving a presentation on immunotherapy in lung cancer, and is one of the clinical investigators of the extensive phase I trial of the anti–PD-1 antibody nivolumab.

AACR: Lung Cancer Therapy Innovations

Patient Quality of Life Part I

As part of our coverage for the 30th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, we bring you an interview with Dr. Mark Pegram, director of the breast cancer program at the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center and codirector of the molecular therapeutics program. Dr. Pegram will be discussing the potential for novel HER2 combination therapies at the conference.

Treatment Combinations for HER2-Postive Breast Cancer

In this interview we discuss the dissemination of research results, clinical trials, and other oncology news using social media, as well as what type of media oncologists use, and how useful and relevant this type of information is for most oncologists.

Social Media for Oncologists

In this interview we discuss HPV-associated cancers, which are on the rise, and the low vaccination coverage for HPV with Edgar Simard, PhD, MPH, senior epidemiologist of surveillance research, who studies the impact of prevention and screening on cancer incidence at the American Cancer Society.

Status of HPV-Related Cancers and Vaccination Trends

Ahead of the ASCO GU meeting, we spoke with two symposium committee members, Dr. Mack Roach, of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Hans T. Chung, of the University of Toronto, about early treatment and surveillance of prostate cancer patients.

ASCO GU: Prostate Cancer

In this interview we discuss the current management and latest treatments and agents in development for multiple myeloma with Dr. Kenneth Anderson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Novel Multiple Myeloma Treatments and Agents in Development

In this interview we discuss the latest treatments and research for gastrointestinal cancers with Dr. Cathy Eng, associate professor, department of gastrointestinal medical oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

ASCO GI: Gastrointestinal Cancers

In this interview we discuss the latest chronic myeloid leukemia treatment and research with Dr. Michael Deininger, chief of the division of hematology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Latest Treatment and Research for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

In this interview we discuss what patients expect from their cancer treatment with Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH, associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schrag recently published a study that aimed to discover how patients with advanced cancer understand the purpose of their chemotherapy treatment.

Patient Expectations About Their Cancer Treatment

Today we speak with Steven T. Rosen, MD, about a couple of the projects he and his group are working on, repurposing old drugs for the treatment of multiple myeloma, that will be presented this year at ASH.

ASH: Repurposed Drugs Show Promise in Multiple Myeloma

Interviews with experts on the top news and controversies in the field of oncology today.