ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress 2024 Highlights Description: In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Narjust Florez and Dr. Alfredo Addeo discuss some of the data presented at The ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress 2024, which took place in December 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. Guest: Dr. Alfredo Addeo, Professor and Chief of Oncology, University Hospital of Geneva

En este episodio de Lung Cancer Considered, vamos a hablar sobre el cancer de pulmón en México. Tengo el placer de tener en este episodio dos doctores con mucha experiencia tratando y entendiendo las necesidades de los pacientes con cancer de pulmón en México. Este episodio es una introducción y esperamos tener conversaciones as profundas en el futuro. Bio: Tenemos al Dr. Jorge Alatorre, Oncology clínico con Alta especialidad en Tumores del Tórax (Cáncer de pulmón y Mesotelioma). Y es jefe del Servicio de Oncología Médica del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER). También ofrece consulta en el Centro Médico ABC Santa Fe y en ONCARE ubicados en la Ciudad de México Bio: Dr. Silviano Rios, Cirujano torácico de la ciudad de Monterrey en México. Atiende a sus pacientes en el Hospital Zambrano Hellion y TecSalud y se especializa en cirugía mínimamente invasiva.

Preview: 2025 Pan-Africa Lung Cancer Meeting The 2025 Pan-Africa Lung Cancer Conference will take place January 31 - February 1, 2025, in Accra, Ghana and represents the first IASLC multidisciplinary lung cancer conference in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Narjust Florez talks with the conference co-chairs about this groundbreaking meeting and what attendees will experience at the meeting. Guest: Dr. Chukwumere E. Nwogu is a Professor of Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Guest: Dr. Jane Sandra Afriyie-Mensah is a Senior Pulmonologist and a Distinguished Academic and Researcher, currently affiliated with the University of Ghana and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. X: NA

Lung Cancer Considered host Dr. Stephen Liu and two distinguished thoracic oncologists review the highlights from the recently completed ESMO Asia 2024 meeting, held in Singapore. The episode covers a number of trials, including an update on FLAURA2, TROPION-Lung01 and TROPION-Lung05, ALESIA, and PACIFIC 5. Guest: Dr. Misako Nagasaka, Associate Professor from the University of California, Irvine Guest: by Dr. Molly Li, Clinical Assistant Professor from Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) is a non-invasive cancer treatment that uses alternating electric fields to disrupt the ability of cancer cells to divide. TTFields can slow down tumor growth and spread, and may help people live longer than chemotherapy alone. In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Narjust Florez discusses this new therapy and the Phase III LUNAR study that led to its FDA approval. Guest: Dr. Ticiana Leal is an Associate Professor and serves as Director of the Thoracic Medical Oncology Program in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine.

In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Stephen Liu leads a discussion on the FDA approval of perioperative nivolumab based on the Phase III CheckMate 77T study. Perioperative therapy has improved outcomes in patients with resectable NSCLC and is emerging as best practice but there is nuance to the delivery of this therapy. Guest: Dr. Tina Cascone is a Physician-Scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and lead author of the CheckMate 77T manuscript in the New England Journal of Medicine Guest: Dr. Shun Lu is the Chief of Shanghai Lung Cancer Center and Shanghai Chest Hospital and Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is an executive board member of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology and past chair of Chinese Lung Cancer Association

In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered host Dr. Narjust Florez discusses the future of lung cancer research in Brazil and the largest lung cancer screening program in South America. The episode was recorded during the IASLC 2024 Latin America Conference on Lung Cancer held in Bogota, Columbia. Guests: Clarissa Baldotto is a Medical ) Oncologist at D’Or Rio De Janeiro and President Elect for the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (SBOC) Guest: Dr. Francisco Sarmento is a Thoracic Radiologist from Hospital Royal Portuguese in Brazil.

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Lung Cancer Considered host Dr. Narjust Florez and Dr. Suresh Ramalingam discuss the recent FDA approval of osimertinib after chemo-radiation in EGFR positive NSCLC. The approval was based, in part, on the results of the LAURA trial, which was presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting. Guest: Dr. Suresh Ramalingam is the Executive Director, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, the Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research, and a professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He is also the editor in chief for the Cancer Journal.

Description: Join us for an engaging discussion on groundbreaking research from investigators across Latin America, featuring insights from large lung cancer screening programs in Mexico and real-world data from the FLAURA-2 study. Titulo: Únete a nosotros para discutir nuevos datos e interesantes presentados por investigadores emergentes en América Latina, desde grandes programas de detección temprana de cáncer de pulmón en México hasta datos del mundo real de FLAURA-2. Guest: Dr. Sergio Mejia – Oncologo clínico de la Fundación Instituto de Cancerología en Bogota, Colombia presento Datos del mundo real usando FLAURA-2 Guest: Dr. Luis Leonardo Rojas – Jefe Unidad Funcional GU y Tórax, Fundación CTIC-Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, Bogota Colombia presento sobre el beneficio económico de tener estudios clínicos en Colombia para los canceres mas comunes Guest: Dra. Marisol Arroyo, pulmonologa del instituto de cancerología en la ciudad de Mexico. Discutió con nosotros los programas de detección temprana para el cancer de pulmón en Mexico

In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Stephen Liu and guests preview the publication of the Ninth Edition of Tumor, Node and Metastasis (TNM) Classification System for lung cancer. The new edition will be published in January 2025 and has some important changes that reflect an evolving understanding of the disease and more rigorous analysis of data from around the world. Guest: Dr. Valerie Rusch is a Thoracic Surgeon from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterMSKCC where she is Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Surgery and the Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers. She has held many leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons and other organizations and was part of the team to first described EGFR mutations. She has been chair of the Thoracic Committee for the American Joint Committee on Cancer 6th, 7th, 8th, and now 9th Editions of the Cancer Staging Handbook Guest: Dr. Hisao Asamura is a Professor of Surgery, Chief of Division of Thoracic Surgery at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan and Vice President of the Japan Lung Cancer Society. For IASLC, he is the Chair of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee, former Executive Board Director, and Congress President for the 18th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Guest: Dr. Enrico Ruffini is a Thoracic Surgeon and Professor of Thoracic Surgery from the University of Torino, Italy where he is the Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Unit and Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program. He is heavily involved in the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Chair of the IASLC Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee – Thymic domain.