Lazaros John Lekakis, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, discusses managing the toxicity of CAR T-cell therapy.
Stephen D. Nimer, MD, professor of medicine, director, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, discusses the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in hematologic malignancies.
Few immune-mediated adverse events were observed with frontline durvalumab plus platinum-based therapy and etoposide in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, and no treatment-emergent antidrug antibodies were elicited by the PD-L1 inhibitor, according to an analysis of the phase III CASPIAN trial reported at the 2019 ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress.
Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, surgeon, deputy chief of Thoracic Service, co-director of the Mesothelioma Program, head of Solid Tumors Cell Therapy, Cellular Therapeutics Center, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the rationale for an autologous mesothelin-targeted CAR T-cell therapy in advanced solid tumors.
Christine N. Duncan, MD, a senior physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, discusses the expansion of CAR T-cell therapy in oncology.
Ahmed Galal, MD, instructor, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the management of adverse events (AEs) associated with CAR T-cell therapy.
Giuseppe L. Banna, MD, consultant, Medical Oncology, Cannizzaro Hospital, discusses the potential for CAR T-cell therapy in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.
John Sweetenham, MD, associate director for clinical affairs, Harold G. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses unanswered questions with CAR T-cell therapy in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Richard T. Maziarz, MD, professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, Knight Cancer Institute, discusses unanswered questions with CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
The associate professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center discussed trends he observed in the field in 2023 and at ASH 2023.
The hematologists from Moffitt Cancer Center and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discussed navigating the referral process for CAR T-cell therapy in hematologic malignancies.
Alison Rager Sehgal, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the structure and manufacturing process of CAR T cells.
Doctors from University of Washington and Cleveland Clinic discussed targeting CD19 in CAR T-cell therapy for relapsed/refractory DLBCL.
The designation follows durable responses seen in a phase 1 study of the agent.
Alison R. Sehgal, MD, assistant professor of medicine, hematologist/medical oncologist, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the clinical implications of CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Hematological Malignancies program, and medical oncologist, hematologist, and clinical instructor at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the latest updates with CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Carlos R. Bachier, MD, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in the outpatient setting. He also shared insight on the evolving paradigm of graft-versus-host disease.
Matthew G. Mei, MD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and hematologist/oncologist, City of Hope, discusses investigational CAR T-cell therapies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in Hodgkin lymphoma.
In 37 evaluable patients, the objective response rate in the study was 89% (95% CI, 75%-97%) with complete responses in 78%.
Bianca D. Santomasso, MD, PhD, discusses how she prevents central nervous system toxicity due to CAR T-cell therapy for aggressive B-cell lymphoma in her own practice.
Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, professor of medicine, Department of Hematology and Oncology, and director, GW Cancer Center, discusses the durability of CAR T cells, as well as ways to combat immune escape mechanisms in hematologic malignancies.
Wayne A. Marasco, MD, PhD, discusses ways CAR T cells are being engineered to avoid on-target adverse events in solid tumors.
Nirali N. Shah, MD, MHSc, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in pediatric patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Research presented at the EBMT meeting suggests cell expansion may be a good biomarker of both response and outcomes.
The pharmacodynamic profile of KTE-X19, an autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, was associated with efficacy and treatment-related neurological events among patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma treated within the ZUMA-2 trial.
A pilot study of the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with EGFRvIII-positive glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) has generated encouraging findings.
Jennifer N. Brudno, MD, medical oncology fellow, National Cancer Institute, discusses a study examining allogeneic T cells expressing an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which was found to cause remissions of B-cell malignancies after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation without causing graft-versus-host disease.
Nina Shah, MD, and other experts discuss the role of CAR T-cell therapy in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
Faiz Anwer, MD, discusses the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy in multiple myeloma.
Tumor-treating field therapy, which uses low-intensity electrical fields to disrupt cancer cell division and promote cell death, has gained a frontline approval in glioblastoma. Several pivotal clinical trials have been launched to determine whether the technology can help patients with other solid tumors.