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2021 Research Round Up: Gynecologic Cancers, Melanoma, and Cancer in Adults 65+

2021 Research Round Up: Gynecologic Cancers, Melanoma, and Cancer in Adults 65+

FromCancer.Net Podcast


2021 Research Round Up: Gynecologic Cancers, Melanoma, and Cancer in Adults 65+

FromCancer.Net Podcast

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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Aug 16, 2021
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 the data described here may change as research progresses. In the Research Round Up series, members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board discuss the most exciting and practice-changing research in their field and explain what it means for people with cancer. In today’s episode, 3 Cancer.Net Associate Editors discuss new research in cervical cancer, melanoma, and cancer in adults 65 and over, presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, held virtually June 4th through 8th. This episode has been adapted from the recording of a live Cancer.Net webinar, held August 9th, and led by Dr. Merry Jennifer Markham, Dr. Ryan Sullivan, and Dr. William Dale. Dr. Markham is Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology and a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Florida. She is also the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Gynecologic Cancers.  Dr. Sullivan is board certified in medical oncology and an attending physician in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Melanoma and Skin Cancer.  Dr. Dale is a clinical professor, the Arthur M. Coppola Family Chair in Supportive Care Medicine, and director of the Center for Cancer and Aging at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Geriatric Oncology.  Full disclosures for Dr. Markham, Dr. Sullivan, and Dr. Dale are available at Cancer.Net. Greg Guthrie: Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Greg Guthrie, and I'm a member of the Cancer.Net content team. And I'll be your host for today's Research Round Up webinar. This webinar will focus on gynecologic cancers, melanoma, and cancer in adults age 65 and older. Cancer.Net is the patient information website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, also known as ASCO. Our participants will be answering questions at the end of this webinar during the Q&A session. Please note that the participants cannot answer questions about anyone's personal medical situation. If you have specific questions about your cancer care, please contact a member of your health care team. Today we'll be addressing research from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, which was held virtually in June, and our participants are members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board. Now, they are Dr. Merry Jennifer Markham of the University of Florida Health. Dr. Markham is the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for gynecologic cancers. Dr. Ryan J. Sullivan of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sullivan is the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for melanoma and skin cancer. Dr. William Dale of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Dale is the Cancer.Net Associate Editor for geriatric oncology. And thank you, everyone, for joining us today. So starting us off today is Dr. Markham with highlights in gynecologic cancers. Dr. Markham: Thank you so much, Greg. It's great to be here talking about a couple of studies that were presented at ASCO. Just to point out that I don't have any conflicts of interest for either of the 2 studies that I'll be presenting today. This first slide is a study that looked at a database to answer a question. And really, the primary question the study was trying to answer was whether HPV screening or cancer scree
Released:
Aug 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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