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Overview of Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas

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Uploaded: 2013-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Dr. Debbie Cohen discusses Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas at the 2012 Focus on Neuroendocrine Tumors Conference.

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May 7, 2013

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Precision Medicine Treating the right patient, at the right time, with the right treatment. David B. Roth, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Precision Medicine Program, discusses the ...

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Oncogenomics

Katherine Nathanson, MD, discusses the importance of oncogenomics for cancer sequencing and screening protocols for cancer screening.

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The Role of Bioinformatics in Precision Medicine

In this video, Jason Moore, PhD, outlines the role of bioinformatics as a component of precision medicine and its valuable part in the diagnosis and treatment choices for patients with serious disease.

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Practical Applications in Lung Cancer

Corey Langer, MD, provides an overview of the advantages that precision medicine confers on patients whose cancers are found to have treatable genetic aberrations.

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The Future of Medicine

In this video, the directors and faculty of the Precision Medicine Program at Penn Medicine provide an overview of precision medicine and its role in the management of serious disease.

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Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancers

Ursina Teitelbaum, MD, provides an overview of reports from ASCO on the current state of targeted therapies for the gastrointestinal cancers.

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Update in MGUS, SMM and AL Amyloidosis, Part 2: Monoclonal Gammopathy and Amyloidosis

Brendan Weiss, MD, considers the early diagnosis of AL amyloidosis and the potential for current therapy to improve outcomes in advanced disease

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Update in MGUS, SMM and AL Amyloidosis, Part 1: Smoldering Multiple Myeloma

Brendan Weiss, MD, reviews the diagnosis of smoldering multiple myeloma in the context of progression to symptomatic disease

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Experimental Therapies for Relapsed Myeloma

Dan Vogl, MD, discusses the current state of drug therapy for relapsing and recurrent multiple myeloma

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Latest Transplant Approaches for Myeloma

Adam D. Cohen, MD, reviews what’s new in clinical studies for stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma

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Genetically Engineered T-cells for B Cell Malignancies

In this video, David L. Porter, MD, describes CAR T immunotherapy for the treatment of the B cell malignancies, including acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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Highlights on Better Therapies for Melanoma

Renowned melanoma specialist and researcher Lynn Schuchter, MD, offers her unique perspective on the most recent advances in drug therapy for melanoma.

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Blood Cancer Update: New Insights for the Future

Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD, provides a comprehensive update on the latest advances in the therapeutic profile of the hematological malignancies.

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Update in Oncology: Breast Cancer Summary

Breast cancer specialist Kevin R. Fox, MD, reviews breast cancer therapy with a focus on early stage disease.

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Update on Genitourinary Cancers

David Vaughn, MD, considers the genitourinary cancers as reflected in recent reports from ASCO.

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Center for Personalized Diagnostics - Precision Diagnostics

David Roth, MD, PhD, describes the legacy and mission of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD), a joint effort of Penn Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center.

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Personalized Medicine and the Future of Pathology at Penn Medicine

David B. Roth, MD, PhD, offers an overview of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD), where pathologists are performing large-scale, massively parallel DNA sequencing and chromosomal analysis

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New Therapies and Current Management of Lymphomas

Stephen J. Schuster, MD, discusses the latest advances in clinical research for the treatment of the lymphomas as presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in 2013.

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Curing Cancer: The Philadelphia Award and Dr. Carl June

In 2013, Carl June, MD, won the Philadelphia Award for his pioneering work in the use of engineered chimeric antigen-modified T cells to treat acute lymphoid leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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Case Studies in the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Elizabeth Hexner, MD, MS, presents four case studies representing patients with the myeloproliferative disorders polycythemia vera, thrombocythemia, mast cell disease and myelofibrosis.

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Targeted Cellular Therapy in Blood Cancers | CTL019 for Leukemia

Hematologist-Oncologist David L. Porter, MD, presents on the pioneering use of CTL-019 (formerly CART-19) at Penn Medicine for adoptive immunotherapy in patients with relapsed or chemotherapy-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemias (CLL).

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Update in Hematology: Graft-versus-Host Disease

David L. Porter, MD discusses the treatment algorithims in use at Penn Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center to minimize the effects of graft-versus-host disease, one of the severe and debilitating effects of chemotherapy in patients ...

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Update in Acute Leukemia

Director of the Leukemia Program at the Abramson Cancer Center and Penn Medicine, Selina Luger, MD, presents an overview of the past and current state of therapy for the leukemias and the improving prognosis for patients with the disease.

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Experimental Treatments for Acute Leukemia

James K Mangan, MD, PhD, discusses investigational approaches to the treatment of acute leukemia and provides a review of standards for AML and ALL, as well as such novel therapies as the TKIs FLT3-ITD and dasantinib, gemtuzumab, CTL-019 and blinatumomab.

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Center for Personalized Diagnostics - Genomic Profiles for Melanoma

Lynn M. Schuchter, MD, and her team at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine are turning to the Center for Personalized Diagnostics to render genomic profiles for melanoma.

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Therapeutic Advances in Hodgkin Lymphoma

Oncologist Jakub Svoboda, MD, offers an overview of recent advances in the treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma, including new biological and targeted agents, optimal combinations and the evolving concept of limiting therapy.

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Lower-Grade Monoclonal Protein-Related Diseases

Brendan Weiss, MD, offers an overview of treatment and prognostic considerations for the monoclonal protein-related diseases with a focus on monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), smoldering multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis.

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Emerging Treatment Options for the Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Noelle Frey, MD, a hematologist-oncologist at Penn Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, presents a summary of approaches to the myelodysplastic syndromes with a focus upon improved prognosis and the application of novel drug therapies.

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Personalized Diagnostics in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

This video features hematologist/oncologist Selina Luger, MD, discussing the role of mutational analysis in the prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia.

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Mutational Analysis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

In this video, oncologist Corey Langer, MD, offers a broad overview of clinical trials of new agents for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and new targeted therapies for the disease.

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Impact of Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD) Genomic Testing

This video provides a succinct examination of the Center for Personalized Diagnostics at Penn Medicine, its capabilities and clinician users.

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Personalized Diagnostics in Melanoma

Lynn Schuchter, MD, Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Penn Medicine, discusses the advantages and challenges of personalized diagnostics in melanoma therapy.

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Genomics and Clinical Trials How might this work? Biological, logistical and cultural challenges

In this video, Roger B. Cohen, MD, considers the challenge inherent in the vast amount of data arising from genomic testing from the perspective of a practicing oncologist, and how the profession might put this data to its best use in the future.

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Proton Therapy for Breast Cancer

Radiation oncologist Gary M. Freedman, MD, discusses multidisciplinary care and the variety of innovative treatments (including proton therapy and clinical trials of investigational therapies) available to women with breast cancer at Penn ...

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Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Pheochromocytomas

Dr. Giorgos Karakousis compares surgical techniques for pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas, including laprascopic surgery and traditional surgery, at the Focus on Neuroendocrine Tumors Conference.

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Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

In this summary, Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, offers an overview of recent advances at Penn Medicine in immunological therapy for pancreatic cancer based upon antibodies that activate the patient's immune system

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Genetically Modified T Cells for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Carl June, MD, Director of Translational Research at the Abramson Cancer Center, reports on recent research advances in the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Mesothelioma - Diagnosis, Treatment & Survivorship

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