ASCO 2016 | Challenges associated with developing treatments for solid and rare tumors

Name: Challenges associated with developing treatments for solid and rare tumors
Uploaded: 2016-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 1 min 12 s

Bruce Johnson • 3 Jun 2016

ASCO 2016

General

Bruce Johnson, MD, from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, discusses the challenges associated with developing effective treatments for patients with solid tumors. Prof Johnson discusses the efforts that are being made in terms of defining subgroups of patients and relevant therapy approaches for common tumors such as breast cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer. He also talks about how for unusual tumors, the challenge is to identify therapy targets and recruit sufficient numbers of patients for trials.
Recorded at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).