Cure TV

David Alexander was selected as an MPN Hero at this year's MPN Heroes event. The MPN Heroes event honors clinicians, caregivers, and advocates who have made significant contributions in the field of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

New York artist and GIST survivor, Ellen Mayer, painted "Balancing Act" to describe how she felt about her cancer experience. The artwork was later selected as one of 10 pieces to be publicly painted for The Hope Murals Project.

Patrick Borgen, MD, shares his thoughts on the ethics and the efficacy of undergoing pre-emptive double mastectomy in women who have a BRCA mutation, which can greatly increase their risk for breast and ovarian cancers.

Debu Tripathy, MD, editor-in-chief of CURE magazine, shares the latest research in metastatic breast cancer, including targeted drugs being tested in early-phase studies that appear promising, including the PARP inhibitor veliparib, the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib and the anti-angiogenesis drug trametinib.