In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Drs. Ainhoa Madariaga and Robert Coleman, two of the Guest Editors for this month’s special issue entitled “Novel Therapies Leading to a New Landscape in Gynecologic Tumors”. Dr. Madariaga is a Medical Oncologist in the Gynecologic Cancer Unit at 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid, Spain. She is the chair of the Young and Early Career Investigator - EORTC Gynecological Cancer Group. Her research interests include patient reported outcomes and drug development. Dr. Coleman is a Gynecologic Oncologist and Chief Medical Officer at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) in Nashville, TN. His research interests include drug development, clinical trial design and global medical education in gynecologic oncology.

Highlights:

- The alignment of cancer biology and novel treatment approaches are significantly extending the lives of patients with gynecologic malignancies, particularly with agents such as antibody drug conjugates, immunotherapy, and targeted agents.

- The evolving therapeutic landscape is escalating the need for a clearer understanding of how precision medicine can most efficiently be implemented.

- Emergence of drug resistance provides new challenges and opportunities through creative and strategic investigation of novel treatment and combinations.

- Advances in testing platforms in bringing genomic testing to the global audience.

- Clinical trial interpretation requires critical evaluation of analytical primary and hypothesis-generating secondary endpoints – strategies to make appropriate inference is key to clinical trial design.