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.
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04:55 clean of,small,cell,cancer,basics,lung,sanborn,cancergrace Lung Cancer Video Library ASCO 2016 Rachel Sanborn Basics of Small Cell Lung Cancer west@cancergrace.org (cancerGRACE - H. Jack West, MD)cancerGRACE - H. Jack West, MDExpert oncologists provide brief, distilled summaries of the most central issues in cancer management and emerging approaches for patients and caregivers. The Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE) is committed to providing the knowledge that will help enable the general public to be informed participants in their own care. Visit CancerGRACE.org for more info.http://cancergrace.grace.libsynpro
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05:28 clean 1,video,for,early,rachel,library,cancer,part,stage,lung,chemotherapy,patients,sanborn,nsclc,adjuvant Lung Cancer Video Library - Rachel Sanborn - Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Early Stage NSCLC Patients, part 1 west@cancergrace.org (cancerGRACE - H. Jack West, MD)cancerGRACE - H. Jack West, MDExpert oncologists provide brief, distilled summaries of the most central issues in cancer management and emerging approaches for patients and caregivers. The Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE) is committed to providing the knowledge that will help enable the general public to be informed participants in their own care. Visit CancerGRACE.org for more
GRACE is happy to present the 8th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss new trials of targeting therapies used to treat leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
GRACE is happy to present the 8th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss promising early results for treatments targeting new mutations.
GRACE is happy to present the 6th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss Immuno-oncology developments - combinations and use as first-Line therapy.
GRACE is happy to present the 6th video in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.  Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss whether current evidence supports favoring proton beam radiation.
GRACE is happy to present the 5th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss the J-Alex trial and whether Alecensa should replace Xalkori as First-Line ALK Therapy.
GRACE is happy to present the 4th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss the subject of local consolidation therapies for oligomatastases.
GRACE is happy to present our ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable series, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing topics presented at ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss the subject of urine or blood testing instead of lung biopsy, showing promise for finding EGFR mutations.  Â
GRACE is happy to present our ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable series, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer. Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing topics presented at ASCO 2016. Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss the subject of online patient groups and if they can help speed the development of new targeted therapies. A subject quite important to online groups such as our own GRACE.
1st Video in the GRACE ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable series, featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD. Dr. West moderates this roundtable discussion highlighting studies presented at ASCO 2016. For this video, Rova-T is presented as showing promise in Small Cell Lung Cancer.Â
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, discusses current trials seeking to determine the efficacy of combining immunotherapy agents in lung cancer.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, raises the question of whether to use immune checkpoint inhibitors as first-line treatment of lung cancer, alone or in combination with chemotherapy.
Dr. Jed Gorden, Swedish Cancer Institute, reviews the lung cancer screening process, including low-dose CT scanning, smoking cessation, follow-up testing and counseling, and describes the potential benefits.
Dr. Jed Gorden, Swedish Cancer Institute, describes the differences between bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound, highlighting the advantages of EBUS in diagnosis and staging.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, defines maintenance therapy in advanced NSCLC and discusses maintenance treatment strategies.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, reviews trial evidence for the efficacy of rociletinib and osimertinib for EGFR acquired resistance not driven by a T790M mutation.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, compares the mechanism of action, efficacy and toxicity of PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, identifies the best choice for first-line chemotherapy for large-cell neuroendocrine histology.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, reviews the choices for a first-line chemotherapy regimen based on a squamous histology.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, addresses the issue of choosing a first-line chemotherapy regimen based on an adenocarcinoma histology.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, discusses the anti-angiogenic agent bevacizumab (Avastin) and the trial evidence of its efficacy for non-squamous NSCLC.
Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, identifies the platinum-based chemotherapy doublet as the backbone of first-line treatment for the majority of NSCLC patients.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, addresses the question of whether to use a second generation ALK inhibitor as first line therapy or only after acquired resistance to crizotinib.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, discusses management of CNS progression for ALK-positive NSCLC including monitoring frequency and preferences between systemic and radiation therapy.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, describes the second generation ALK-inhibitors which provide good options for ALK-positive NSCLC patients who have developed acquired resistance to crizotinib.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, explains the preference for crizotinib rather than platinum doublet chemotherapy as first line treatment for patients with ALK or ROS1 rearrangements.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, describes ROS-1 rearrangements and compares them to ALK rearrangements in frequency of occurrence and response to treatment.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, describes ALK rearrangements and the characteristics of patients who most often have them.
Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, discusses the potential benefits as well as the disadvantages of multiplex mutation testing.
Dr. Heather Wakelee, Stanford University Medical Center, evaluates the lack of evidence for the use of targeted therapies after surgery, and describes ongoing trials attempting to resolve that issue.
Dr. Heather Wakelee, Stanford University Medical Center, lists standard adjuvant chemotherapy regimens, comparing their administration and uses.
Dr. Heather Wakelee, Stanford University Medical Center, discusses the purpose of adjuvant chemotherapy, and which patients benefit most from it.
Dr. Benjamin Levy, Mount Sinai Health Systems, compares zoledronic acid and denosumab, two agents used for treatment of bone metastases in lung cancer.
Dr. Benjamin Levy, Mount Sinai Health Systems, discusses platinum-based chemotherapy as the standard of care for advanced NSCLC patients without targetable genetic mutations.
Dr. Benjamin Levy, Mount Sinai Health Systems, lists the goals of treating advanced NSCLC and the methods used to achieve those goals.
Dr. David Harpole, Duke University Medical Center, compares traditional open thoracotomy with video-assisted thorascopic surgery, highlighting the advantages of the newer approach.
Dr. David Harpole, Duke University Medical Center, defines the concept of mediastinal node sterilization and its use after neoadjuvant therapy.
Dr. David Harpole, Duke University Medical Center, describes the sleeve resection and how it can help selected patients with large tumors retain lung function.
Dr. David Harpole, Duke University Medical Center, describes the mediastinoscopy and its use in lung cancer staging.