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Clinical Trials in Genitourinary Cancers: VISION, INTACT, and PROSPER

Clinical Trials in Genitourinary Cancers: VISION, INTACT, and PROSPER

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Clinical Trials in Genitourinary Cancers: VISION, INTACT, and PROSPER

FromCancer.Net Podcast

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

ASCO: You’re listening to a podcast from Cancer.Net. This cancer information website is produced by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, known as ASCO, the world’s leading professional organization for doctors who care for people with cancer. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Cancer research discussed in this podcast is ongoing, so clinical trials described here may no longer be enrolling patients, and final results are not yet available.   Before any new cancer treatment can be approved for general use, it must be studied in a clinical trial in order to prove it is safe and effective. In today’s podcast, members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board discuss 3 clinical trials that are exploring new treatment options across prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer. This podcast will be led by Dr. Sumanta (Monty) Pal, Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, Dr. Petros Grivas, and Dr. Tian Zhang. Dr. Pal is co-director of City of Hope's Kidney Cancer Program and is the head of the kidney and bladder cancer disease team at the institution. He has served in a consulting or advisory role for Novartis, Genentech Roche, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Agarwal directs the Genitourinary Oncology Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. He has served in a consulting or advisory role for Novartis and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Grivas is the clinical director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at University of Washington Medicine. He is also an associate member of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has served in a consulting or advisory role for Genentech Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and is a medical oncologist at Duke Cancer Institute. She has served in a consulting or advisory role for Genentech Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb. View full disclosures for Dr. Pal, Dr. Agarwal, Dr. Grivas, and Dr. Zhang at Cancer.Net. Dr. Pal: Hi, I'm Monty Pal from City of Hope. I'm the Associate Editor for Genitourinary Cancers for Cancer.Net, ASCO's patient education website.  I'm really excited to be here with my colleagues: Dr. Petros Grivas, Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, and Dr. Tian Zhang. We're really excited about this effort. We're hoping it brings some salient details about clinical trials straight to you, our most important audience. Keep in mind that clinical trials are the main way that doctors are able to find better treatments for diseases like cancer. And before any new drug can be approved by the FDA, it must be studied in the context of a clinical trial. Patient participation is vital for clinical trials. By participating in a clinical trial, you can directly help researchers develop better treatments, reduce side effects, or even reduce the risk of cancer altogether. While you may receive new treatments within a clinical trial, the primary purpose of these studies is to move the field of cancer research forward. Keeping participants safe is probably the most important concern in clinical trials, and there may be some risks involved. Because of that, your healthcare team is going to discuss with you in detail these risks before you join on to a clinical study. Now, at this point in time, we're going to discuss 3 studies that are being done in the area of kidney, bladder, and prostate cancer. These studies were chosen by members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board Genitourinary Cancers panel from the Trials in Progress abstracts that are going to be presented at ASCO's 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. I'd like to note that none of us have any direct involv
Released:
Feb 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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