Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy told AWS employees there’s “still plenty of time” to determine who will lead the cloud computing division when he takes over as CEO of parent company Amazon.com this summer.
A 24-year Amazon veteran, Jassy launched AWS in 2006 and served as its senior vice president before becoming AWS CEO in April 2016. Yesterday, he was was named as the successor to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who will be stepping down and taking a new role as executive chair of the company’s board.
Amazon made the announcement as part of its fourth-quarter earnings release for 2020 yesterday. The transition is due to take place in the third quarter, which starts July 1. Jassy’s replacement has yet to be named.
GSRGT 2020: The Need for Perioperative Management Strategies: Role of Clinical Oncologists - Chemotherapy
(UroToday.com) The penile cancer session at the Global Society of Rare Genitourinary Tumors (GSRGT) 2020 Virtual Summit included a discussion for the role of chemotherapy in the perioperative management of patients with penile cancer by Dr. Guru Sonpavde from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Sonpavde notes that surgery alone for patients with locally advanced disease is associated with high-risk of recurrence, both locoregionally and distant, with 5-year overall survival (OS) rates of 0-42%. Particularly bad predictors include bulky inguinal adenopathy of ≥ 4cm, bilateral nodes, pelvic lymphadenopathy (N3 disease), an unresectable primary tumor (T4), and extranodal extension.