Lung Cancer Considered IASLC

Career transitions are normal in academic oncology, oncology practice, and industry and today's oncologists go through a number of 'job' interviews during their post-graduate life and early career. In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Narjust Florez discusses how to find or transition to that new job in thoracic oncology. Joining the discussion are three lung cancer researchers:

Dr. Mark Awad, clinical director of the Thoracic Oncology Group at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a leading researcher in KRAS-mutant NSCLC.

Dr. Ana Velazquez, instructor of medicine and thoracic medical oncologist at UCSF and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Velazquez is completing her training and searching for her faculty position.

Dr. Jyoti Patel, associate vice for clinical research, a thoracic medical oncologist, and professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Patel is a leader in thoracic oncology, focusing her efforts on the development and evaluation of novel molecular markers and therapeutics for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma has undergone dramatic shifts in the past few years. To discuss these changes and the research behind them, Lung Cancer Considered Host Dr. Stephen Liu welcomes Dr. Sanjay Popat and Dr. Melina Marmarelis. Dr. Popat is a Consultant Thoracic Medical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden and Professor of Thoracic Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, England, and Chair of the British Thoracic Oncology Group. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. Dr. Marmarelis is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Medical Director of the Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Program.

In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Stephen Liu leads a discussion on the management of metastatic, PDL1 negative NSCLC. He is joined by Dr. Hossein Borghaei and Dr. Reyes Bernabe Caro.

Dr. Borghaei is a professor and Chief of Thoracic Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He was the lead author for CheckMate 057, was involved in many of the landmark immunotherapy trials, and is the national PI for the ongoing INSIGNA trial. Dr. Reyes Bernabe Caro is the Section Chief of Medical Oncology and Head of the Thoracic Tumor Unite at the Hospital Universitario Virgen Rocio in Seville, Spain. She also has extensive experience in immunotherapy combinations and is an author on the NADIM and CheckMate 227 studies.

On the heels of accelerated approval by the US FDA, Dr. Stephen Liu discusses trastuzumab-deruxtecan (T-DXd) with medical oncologists and clinical investigators, Dr. Lyudmila Bazhenova, from the University of California, San Diego, and Dr. Julian Mazieres, from Toulouse University Hospital. T-DXd is an antibody-drug conjugate now approved for the treatment of HER2-mutant NSCLC, and in this episode, its design, efficacy, and safety are reviewed.

It’s a wrap! Catch up on key highlights of the IASLC 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer with Dr. Narjust Florez and Dr. Stephen Liu as they discuss the science, social engagement and notable abstracts with Dr. Ben Levy.

We’ve approached a remarkable close to the last day of the IASLC 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Vienna, Austria. Lung Cancer Considered hosts Dr. Stephen Liu and Dr. Narjust Florez interview Dr. Belinda King Kallimanis, Dr. Charles Rudin and Dr. Solange Peters about patient-centric clinical trial consent forms, an update on the Keynote 604 trial, the importance of women’s sexual health and new data on a combination of therapies for patients with KRAS mutations.