Cleveland Clinic Cancer Advances

Hermann Kessler, MD, PhD, a senior colorectal surgeon in the Department of Colorectal Surgery, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about the benefits of a complete mesocolic excision (CME) for patients with colon cancer. Listen as Dr. Kessler talks about improving survival and local recurrence rates, the importance of screening programs, and incorporating different modalities into surgery.

The Cancer Advances podcast is joined by Kate Eshleman, PsyD, a pediatric psychologist in the Center for Pediatric Behavioral Health at Cleveland Clinic Children's to talk about the mental health of children and teenagers with cancer. Listen as Dr. Eshleman discusses the Cleveland Clinic Children's survivorship program, what medical professionals should watch out for, and how to assist p...

Chair of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Michelle Kang Kim, MD, PhD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss neuroendocrine tumors. Listen as Dr. Kim talks about creating a database of biomarker studies, the use of DOTATATE PET CT imaging, and the collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach taken at Cleveland Clinic to treat neuroendocrine tumors.

Christopher Weight, MD, Center Director of Urologic Oncology at Cleveland Clinic joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss using artificial intelligence to diagnose kidney cancer. Listen as Dr. Weight explains the progress we have made with imaging-generated software and a fully automated equivalent nephrometry score.

Breast Medical Oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Megan Kruse, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the differences in the clinical management of invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) and invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC). Listen as Dr. Kruse discusses the challenges of diagnosing, re-evaluating treatment options, and using genomic data to see different trends fo...

Ali Aminian, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic's Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about his study on how bariatric surgery can significantly lower a patient's risk of developing obesity-related cancers. Listen as Dr. Aminian explains how the study saw that with significant weight loss, the risk was reversible across race, sex, and age of the pat...

Director of the Center for Immunotherapy and Precision Immuno-Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, Timothy Chan, MD, PhD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network (ROBIN). Listen as Dr. Chan talks about this new network of centers, the concentration on multi-modality therapies, and the trials that were funded as part of the center.

Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil, radiation oncologist, associate professor, and staff physician-scientist at Cleveland Clinic, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about the research he presented at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2022 Annual Meeting. Listen as Dr. Scott discusses preliminary results from a recent Cleveland Clinic study about using GARD to predict overall survival i...

Stopping hormone therapy treatment to attempt pregnancy may be an option for hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer patients. Halle Moore, MD, Director of Breast Medical Oncology and Co-Director of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss her research and encouraging findings of the POSITIVE trial that was presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symp...

The Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Craig Sauter, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss optimizing treatments with CAR T-cell and stem cell transplants. Listen as Dr. Sauter talks about his goals to continue expanding the cellular therapy research team and to improve outcomes for transplant patients.

Sharon Sutherland, MD, Director of the Center for Prevention of Cervical Cancer joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about the new center created to help prevent cervical cancer. Listen as Dr. Sutherland highlights the goals of the center, and the collaboration with pathology, primary care physicians, and gynecologic oncologists.

Stacey Zahler, DO, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Children's, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about the advances in neuroblastoma care for pediatric patients. Listen as Dr. Zahler talks about current treatment options, creating a metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) therapy center at Cleveland Clinic, and studying difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) against cancer cell...

The emotional, psychological, and mental challenges of living with cancer are significant. In this Cancer Advances Podcast, Kaleena Chilcote, MD, Director of Psycho-Oncology at Taussig Cancer Institute talks about mental healthcare in patients who have cancer. Listen as Dr. Chilcote talks about cancer patients' mental health struggles from the beginning of their journey through survivorship a...

Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, the new Chair of Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to share his vision for Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center. Listen as Dr. Adjei shares his background, goals, and his vision to integrate clinical trials as first line therapy in patient care.

Surgical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Thyroid Center, Joyce Shin, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to provide surgical insights on thyroid cancer. Listen as Dr. Shin discusses the benefits of multidisciplinary care, molecular profiling, and using a fine needle aspiration for thyroid nodules.

R. Matthew Walsh, MD, Department Chair of General Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about surgical options for pancreatic cancer. Listen as Dr. Walsh discusses the Whipple procedure, minimally invasive approaches, robotics improvements and pre-habilitation.

Christopher Wee, MD, a medical oncologist from the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program at Taussig Cancer Institute joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about therapies for metastatic prostate cancer. Listen as Dr. Wee discusses Lutetium-PSMA and the clinical trials that showed patients had better response rates and fewer toxicities when they got lutetium on top of their care.

Cleveland Clinic Akron General oncologic surgeon, Anthony Visioni, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss minimally invasive esophagectomies. Listen as Dr. Visioni talks about esophageal cancers and highlights how the team selects the appropriate surgical approach for these patients.

Christopher Weight, MD, Center Director of Urologic Oncology at Cleveland Clinic joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss robot assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) for the treatment of testicular cancer. Listen as Dr. Weight explains how this robotic surgery allows shorter hospital stays, quicker recovery time, and a lower rate of chylous ascites.

Shilpa Gupta, MD, director of genitourinary medical oncology at Taussig Cancer Institute and co-leader of the genitourinary oncology program at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss her research that was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 annual meeting. Listen as Dr. Gupta gives us insights into the MAIN-CAV trial and platinum-...

Medical Director of the Breast Center at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, Stephanie Valente, DO, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the Young Women's Clinic. Listen as Dr. Valente discusses the program, survivorship, and the factors physicians address for younger breast cancer patients.

Chirag Shah, MD, co-director of Breast Radiation and Clinical Research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss breast cancer recurrence. Listen as Dr. Shah discusses his research that was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 annual meeting to help patients that are at risk of recurrence.

Director of the Center of Advanced Robotic and Image-Guided Surgery at Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Jihad Kaouk, MD joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss single-port transvesical robot assisted radical prostatectomy. Listen as Dr. Kaouk explains advancements that have been made to prostatectomies and how we are continuing to innovate.

Michael Kattan, PhD, Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic, and Rahul Tendulkar, MD, radiation oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center join the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss nomograms, a calculation tool designed to allow clinicians to evaluate the collective risk of multiple factors at once. Listen as they discuss the creation of nomograms and how t...

Seth Rotz, MD, pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Director of the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program at Cleveland Clinic Children's, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about CAR T-cell therapies and immunotherapy in pediatric patients. Listen as Dr. Rotz explains the long-term survivorship factors to consider when using these therapies and the exciting studies that are being deve...