Next up in our Research Round Up podcast series, you’ll hear highlights from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting about kidney cancer and melanoma.
Conferences
More than 700 Screened for Skin Cancer at 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival
Dermatologists from the Mount Sinai Health System performed 726 skin cancer screenings at the Aspen Ideas Festival (AIF), identifying 18 possible melanomas and 46 potential non-melanoma skin cancers (basal cell and squamous cell abnormalities). These potential diagnoses must be confirmed with additional testing.
Immunotherapy in Melanoma: What Does the Future Hold?
Melanoma has been at the forefront of the immuno-oncology revolution, a trend that continued at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Interpreting PD-L1 Status Among Key Melanoma Topics at ASCO
Key areas in the treatment of melanoma discussed at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting included selecting appropriate immunotherapy regimens based on PD-L1 status and improving surgical practices. OncLive sat down with Jason J. Luke, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at University of Chicago Medicine, to provide deeper insight on both topics.