Selma Khenissi, MPS: Hello. Welcome to Oncology Data Advisor, your leading source for oncology news. I am Selma Khenissi from i3 Health. We are here today with Dr. Kelly Brassil, PhD, RN, Advanced Practice Nurse at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She'll be discussing patient-reported symptom data and its positive effect on survival, including for patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Welcome, Dr. Brassil. Dr. Kelly Brassil, PhD, RN: Thank you for having me today. Se...

Despite the many obstacles associated with treating and managing patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, the ongoing study of several novel agents has the potential to significantly improve the outcomes of these patients in the coming years. In this interview, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Phoenix, Arizona, discusses strategies to optimize the management of metastatic colorectal cancer and the promising developments which may advance treatm...

Recently, the FDA approved idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma®, Bristol Myers Squibb) for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have already been treated with four or more lines of therapy, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody. The approval was based on KarMMa, a phase 2 trial that confirmed the efficacy and safety of idecabtagene vicleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. In this interview, one of...

Melphalan flufenamide, a newly approved peptide-drug conjugate for multiple myeloma, specifically targets chemotherapy to tumor cells like a warhead on a guided missile. In the following interview, Dr. Paul Richardson, the Clinical Program Leader and Director of Clinical Research of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the use of melflufen (Pepaxto®, Oncopeptides AB) for multiple myeloma. Melflufen has its base in melphalan and the old technolo...