Cleveland Clinic Cancer Advances

Program Director of Cleveland Clinic Florida's Sarcoma Program, Jorge Manrique-Succar, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss a feasibility study for drug sensitivity testing and genetic profiling in adults with advanced sarcomas. Listen as Dr. Manrique-Succar highlights how the results from the study will lay grounds for future testing and potentially guide future treatment options...

Rabi Hanna, MD, Chair of the Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Cleveland Clinic Children's and Angelika Erwin, MD, PhD, Medical Geneticist at the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare at the Cleveland Clinic join the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the lysosomal storage disease program (LSD). Listen as Dr. Hanna and Dr. Erwin discuss...

Nathan Mesko, MD, Center Director, Orthopaedic Oncology, and Co-Director of Sarcoma Care at Cleveland Clinic and Daniel Joyce, MBBCh, surgical oncologist, join the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas. Listen as Dr. Mesko and Dr. Joyce highlight the value of having a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best outcomes for patients with retroperitoneal sarcoma...

Brian Hill, MD, PhD, Director of the Lymphoid Malignancies Program joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss research and findings that were presented at the 2021 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting (ASH). Listen as Dr. Hill discusses how CAR T-Cell therapy may be a lifesaving option for patients with relapsed or refractory disease.

Director of the Center for Immunotherapy and Precision Immuno-Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, Timothy Chan, MD, PhD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss cancer genomic testing capabilities. Listen as Dr. Chan discusses how Cleveland Clinic offers an advanced genomic testing platform as the standard of care to patients with cancer. This expanded capability allows clinicians to identify genet...

Joseph Scharpf, MD, FACS, Director of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Head and Neck Institute and Katherine Heiden, MD, an endocrine surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute join the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the latest advances in aggressive thyroid cancer treatment. Listen as Dr. Scharpf and Dr. Heiden discuss how their collaborative...

Today, more children are surviving cancer than ever before. But now, increasing efforts are needed to detect and treat late effects as early as possible. Seth Rotz, MD, Director of the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program at Cleveland Clinic Children’s joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss survivorship. Listen as Dr. Rotz highlights how Cleveland Clinic is helping ensure survivor success b...

Lung nodules are one of the most common incidental findings seen on radiology exams. Director of the Lung Cancer Program and Lung Cancer Screening Program for the Respiratory Institute, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss Cleveland Clinic's lung nodule management program. The new program was developed to track the management of these lung nodules throughout th...

Brian Gastman, MD, Surgical and Co-Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Melanoma and High-Risk Skin Cancer Program joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). Listen as Dr. Gastman discusses clinical trials exploring the use of immunotherapy with adoptive cell transfer for advanced melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma.

Chief of Breast Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Julie Lang, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss liquid biopsies in breast cancer. Listen as Dr. Lang discusses how liquid biopsies have been used in the past and how she's using them in a new study, funded in part by VeloSano. The study will use next-generation sequencing to detect circulating tumor DNA in the blood sampl...

At Cleveland Clinic, exceptional cancer care is complemented by services that address the emotional, psycho-social, and financial needs of our patients. Melanie Robbins-Ong, DO, palliative and supportive care specialist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the importance of patient and family support services. Listen as Dr. Robbins-Ong describes the differ...

Jack Khouri, MD, hematologist oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, who specializes in rare plasma cell disorders within the Rare Cancers and Blood Diseases program joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss POEMS (i.e., polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes). Listen as Dr. Khouri talks about how the early recognition and diagnosis of POEMS...

Results from a multi-institutional study led by a Cleveland Clinic researcher, DCSionRT®, a biosignature based on multiple biomarkers, may hold the key to solving the treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Chirag Shah, MD, coinvestigator, and director of Breast Radiation Oncology at Cleveland Clinic joins the Cancer Advances podcast to explain the study and findings that were presented at t...

Medical Director of the Breast Center at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, Stephanie Valente, DO, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss lymphovenous bypass surgery and its connection to breast cancer. Listen as Dr. Valente highlights the procedure and advances being made in breast surgery at Cleveland Clinic.

Suneel Kamath, MD, hematologist and medical oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, joins the Cancer Advances podcast for the second time to discuss our new Center for Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer. Listen as Dr. Kamath discusses how the center was established, and how it will allow us to take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to research, diagnosis, and treatment of young-onset...

Hematologist and medical oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Suneel Kamath, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss his research on funding disparities. Many cancers with higher mortality rates and high incidence are underfunded, including colorectal, lung, hepatobiliary and uterine cancers. Listen as Dr. Kamath discusses his research from the American Society of Clinical Oncolo...

Paolo Caimi, MD, Associate BMT Director for Cell Therapy at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss new developments and clinical trials in cell therapy. Listen as Dr. Caimi discusses how the field is changing, along with the primary advantages and disadvantages of using cellular therapy compared to chemotherapy.

Pediatric heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic Children's, Shahnawaz Amdani, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss cardio-oncology for both pediatric and adult cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy or have completed their chemotherapy and are now long-term survivors. Listen as Dr. Amdani highlights when and how cardiac toxicity develops, preventat...

Cleveland Clinic recently opened a clinical trial to determine the maximum tolerated dose of a vaccine in patients with non-metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The breast cancer vaccine was invented and developed by Cleveland Clinic immunologist Vincent Tuohy, PhD, and his research team. Cleveland Clinic medical oncologist and principal investigator, G. Thomas Budd, MD, joins the Canc...

Miriam Hernandez, Program Manager in Community Outreach at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about our approach to community outreach and how we’re helping to educate and provide cancer screenings for the underserved population. Listen as Miriam highlights how the community outreach program initially started, what initiatives they are actively doing within t...

Thomas Gildea, MD, interventional pulmonologist and Section Head of Bronchology in Cleveland Clinic's Respiratory Institute joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the use of pulmonary lung stents for cancer patients. Listen as Dr. Gildea discusses the different ways his team is able to customize lung stents for each patient, including the new FDA-approved 3D-printed stent. Learn how he...

Cleveland Clinic Akron General surgeon, Terence Jackson, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to talk about the latest advances in pancreatic cancer surgery. Listen as Dr. Jackson covers some of the different techniques, which seem to be the most effective, and what types of patients make the best candidates.

Gene Barnett, MD, MBA, neurosurgeon and Director of the Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center joins the Cancer Advances podcast to discuss the standard of care for brain metastases. Listen as Dr. Barnett discusses how the traditional surgical approaches for treating patients with brain metastases have evolved and how we are using stereotactic radiosurgery to deliver superior ou...

Chair of Physician Leadership and Development within the Mandel Global Leadership and Learning Institute at Cleveland Clinic, Brian Bolwell, MD, joins the Cancer Advances podcast to reflect on his time as leader of Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and his ongoing journey in leadership. Listen as Dr. Bolwell shares his story on how he became a leader, lessons learned along the way and advice for upco...

Physicians treating patients with Ewing sarcoma get a chance to discuss challenging cases with experts from Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Children's and other leading cancer centers throughout the country in a new National Ewing Sarcoma Tumor Board, led by Matteo Trucco, MD, a pediatric hematologist oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Children’s. Dr. Trucco joins the Cancer Advances podcast t...