Stephanie Jackson, MSN, RN speaks with Cancer Network about the role oncology nurses play in managing patients with hematologic malignancies who are undergoing CAR T-cell therapy.
Dr. Copelan discusses the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients and how these therapies might improve upon the current standard of care.
Ahead of the ASCO Annual Meeting, we discuss the assessment and management of cytokine release syndrome in patients with cancer with Elizabeth Shpall, MD.
ONCOLOGY discussed therapy options, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T-cell therapies for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), with Susan R. Rheingold, MD, Medical Director of the Oncology Outpatient Clinic and attending physician with the Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dylan Essner discussed the implementation of documentation tools and CRS, ICANS and ICE flow sheets within CAR T-cell therapy.
The chief medical officer at SanBio discussed how the investigational agent SB623 is being studied in TBI and stroke, with future planned studies in Alzheimer disease.
A discussion of the course of gene therapy compared with stem cell therapy.
Melanoma and other types of skin cancer are among the many types of cancer poised to benefit greatly from genomic research that identifies susceptibilities and potential targets for genetic-based therapy. A recent paper in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research suggests, however, that an entire category of genetic mutations – one that could be incredibly fruitful in terms of diagnosis and treatment – is largely being ignored.
Refractory cases of myasthenia gravis can be relieved by a new treatment based on replacing a patient’s immune system with new one created from transplants of his own stem cells, Canadian researchers report.
Stem cell transplants may be a new, revolutionary way to treat Crohn's disease.
Experimental stem cell therapy using a patient's own stem cells could offer long-term relief for many patients with multiple sclerosis, though questions still remain regarding cost, patient selection, and efficacy.
For children with Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (DBA) - an inherited condition defined by low red blood cell counts and limited progenitor cells in the bone marrow - growth hormone (GH) therapy was found to increase the short stature of patients - a symptom not widely analyzed.
The Clinical Trials reported in this issue include: PHASE I: 1) Cell Genesys and Medarex Remain Positive on Combination Immunotherapy Study 2) Active Biotech Achieves Success with TASQ for Prostate Cancer PHASE II: 1) Myriad Initiates Evaluation of Brain Cancer Drug that Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier 2) Second Lung Cancer Trial Adds Data to Novel Therapy PHASE III: 1) Nexavar Could Soon Add Primary Liver Cancer to its Label 2) Point Therapeutics Provides Clinical Update for NSCLC Studies
The global head of research and development at Atara Biotherapeutics discussed ATA188 ahead of anticipated data readouts this month.
The director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center discussed how hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being used to attempt to improve the damage from neurodegeneration.
Phase 2 trial results suggest the possibility of a treatment that may regenerate brain cells following TBI.
Spyridoula Vasileiou, PhD, discusses the potential role of ALVR109, a SARS-CoV-2 virus–specific T-cell therapy, for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019.
Reem Karmali, MD, MS, discusses next steps for optimizing maintenance therapy in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma.
Jason J. Luke, MD, FACP, discusses the future of T-cell therapy in melanoma.
Investigators see potential in adding targeted therapy to dual immunotherapy for intermediate- and poor-risk patients with renal cell carcinoma. In the phase III COSMIC-313 trial, investigators aim to evaluate cabozantinib, nivolumab, and ipilimumab in patients with untreated advanced RCC.
Results of a phase 1/2 trial show the feasibility of an approach targeting CLL1 in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.
Joshua M. Bauml, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center, discusses the preliminary results of the KEYNOTE-055 study, which investigated pembrolizumab (Keytruda) after failure on platinum-based therapy and cetuximab in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the promise of single-agent pembrolizumab in advanced non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Benjamin R. Lee, MD, chief, Division of Urology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Department of Surgery, and director of the Genitourinary Cancer and Disease Oriented Strategic Planning Team, University of Arizona Cancer Center, discusses nanotechnology combination therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Mary Jo Fidler, MD, associate professor, medical oncology, hematology, internal medicine, Rush University Medical Center, discusses how early and persistent oligoclonal T cell expansion correlates with durable response to anti-PD1 therapy in non-small cell lung cancer treatment (NSCLC).
Robert G. Uzzo, MD, chair, Surgical Oncology, G. Willing "Wing" Pepper Chair in Cancer Research, senior vice-president, Physician Services, president, Fox Chase Cancer Center Medical Group, Inc., professor of Surgery, Temple University Health System, Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses recent outcomes of adjuvant therapy as seen in clinical trials for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).