Relugolix (OrgovyxTM, Myovant Sciences) was recently FDA approved as the first oral hormone therapy for patients with advanced prostate cancer. In this interview, Neal Shore, MD, FACS, Medical Director of the Carolina Urologic Research Center and lead investigator of the HERO trial, on which the approval was based, speaks with i3 Health about the approval's significance and the future of treatment for patients with this disease. Can you comment on the significance of the approval of relugolix fo...

Recently, the FDA approved osimertinib (Tagrisso®, AstraZeneca) as the first adjuvant therapy for patients with surgically resected early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. In this interview, Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, Chief of Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center and lead investigator of the ADAURA trial, on which the approval was based, speaks with i3 Health about the significance of the approval of osimertinib for this patient populati...

In a study published this past week in JAMA Network Open, Eugene Cone, MD, and colleagues found that a longer time to treatment initiation negatively impacts survival in patients with breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancers, a finding that is particularly relevant with the deferral of treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Dr. Cone, a clinical fellow in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, speaks with i3 Health about the significance of these results and shares advice...

Recently, the FDA approved naxitamab in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) for patients with relapsed/refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in the bone or bone marrow. In this interview, Jaume Mora, MD, PhD, Scientific Director of Oncology and Hematology at Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital and lead investigator of one of the trials on which the approval was based, speaks with i3 Health about the benefits of naxitamab for patients with relapsed/r...

The FDA recently approved gallium (Ga) 68 PSMA-11, a radioactive diagnostic agent, for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of patients with recurrent prostate cancer. Ga 68 PSMA-11, the approval of which was granted to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), is the first agent to be approved specifically for the detection of PSMA-positive lesions. In this interview with i3 Hea...