Topic: Clinical Advances in Oncology

I make my rounds at the European Hematology Association Annual Meeting and the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, interviewing guests such as Elias Jabbour, Kim Linton, and Stefano Luminari. Great meeting and amazing guests during the EHA and Lugano meetings in June 2019.

Patients and their treating oncologists are faced with many challenges today, including rising drug prices and the opioid crisis, as well as clinical pathway optimization and algorithms to furthering community oncology engagement in clinical research. To discuss it all, I sit down with Clifford Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO, chief executive officer of ASCO, at the … Read more

Eric Topol, MD, a cardiologist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur, sits down with me to discuss how AI can impact current and future patient care. I explore various aspects of Topol’s recent book, “Deep Medicine,” which comprehensively evaluates the pros and cons of AI in health care. Must listen to this amazing physician and prolific author.

Best selling author, researcher, scientist, and world-renowned physician Siddhartha Mukherjee joins me to discuss his career path, what led him to write the inspiring book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” and how his writing impacted his practice and vice versa. This was the MOST-LISTENED to episode in 2019; so you have … Read more

At the 2019 AUA meeting, I moderated a good-natured debate on PSA screening, open vs robotic surgery, and health supplements with two prominent urologic oncologists: Scott Eggener, MD, University of Chicago, and Ben Davies, MD, University of Pittsburgh. Not only will you learn if you listen, but I promise that you will chuckle.

I made my rounds at the Summit on National and Global Cancer Health Disparities, interviewing guests such as Clifford Hudis, Otis Brawley, Edith Mitchell, and Ken Anderson. It was a great meeting and I loved interacting with everyone who had similar interest of mitigating healthcare disparities for all patients, especially those with cancer.

So much was going on in the media when Alex Trebek, host and producer of the show Jeopardy, was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. The media started having the usual mixed messages and I wanted to clarify all aspects of pancreatic cancer to listeners. I had the privilege to host Dr. Anirban Maitra of MD Anderson … Read more

What in the world is next-generation sequencing (NGS) that we keep hearing about? does it lead to any controversies in oncology care? While some clinicians advocate NGS for all patients and all tumors, others, like Dr West, may contest this approach. Dr. Jack West who is at the City of Hope (he was at Swedish … Read more