Immuno-Oncology | Specialty

Immunotherapy Is on the Cusp of Major Breakthroughs in Multiple Myeloma

March 1st 2021

Immune therapy has evolved rapidly in multiple myeloma, and the field is on the verge of major improvements in outcomes.

Dostarlimab Gets Positive EU Opinion in Recurrent or Advanced MSI-H Endometrial Cancer

February 26th 2021

February 26, 2021 - The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use granted a positive opinion to dostarlimab as a treatment for patients with recurrent or advanced microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair deficient endometrial cancer who have progressed on or following platinum-based chemotherapy.

KTE-X19 Continues to Elicit Durable Responses in Relapsed/Refractory MCL

February 24th 2021

February 24, 2021 - The CAR T-cell product KTE-X19 continues to demonstrate durable clinical benefit in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma, with an overall response rate of 92%.

CAR T-Cell Therapy Explodes on the Scene in Heavily Pretreated Multiple Myeloma

February 24th 2021

Binod Dhakal, MD, discusses the potential impact of ide-cel, orva-cel, and cilta-cel in multiple myeloma therapy.

Dr. Naing on the Potential Implications of Immune-Related Adverse Effects in Cancer

February 23rd 2021

Aung Naing, MD, FACP, discusses potential immune-related adverse effects in oncology.

Caribou and AbbVie Initiate Development Partnership for CAR T-Cell Products

February 23rd 2021

February 23, 2021 - AbbVie and Caribou Biosciences, Inc have entered into a collaboration and license agreement for the research and development of chimeric antigen receptory T-cell therapeutics.

Investigators Aim Novel T-Cell Therapy at Solid Tumor Target

February 23rd 2021

ADP-A2M4CD8, a novel T-cell therapy, is being investigated in a range of tumor types that express MAGEA4, an antigen expressed in solid tumors that investigators say represents a promising target for cellular immunotherapy.

FDA Grants Fast Track Status to Immunotherapy GEN-1 in Advanced Ovarian Cancer

February 22nd 2021

February 22, 2021 - The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the DNA-mediated interleukin-12 immunotherapy GEN-1 for use in the treatment of patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

TKI/Immunotherapy Combos Dominate Frontline Metastatic RCC Management

February 22nd 2021

Claud N. Grigg, MD, highlights different frontline combination regimens that are improving outcomes for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

AstraZeneca Withdraws Durvalumab Advanced Bladder Cancer Indication From US Market

February 22nd 2021

AstraZeneca has voluntarily withdrawn durvalumab from the US market for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer.

Immunotherapy Keeps Impressing in Advanced NSCLC, With Improvements on the Horizon

February 22nd 2021

Davey B. Daniel, MD, discusses key immunotherapy trials in advanced non–small cell lung cancer and explains how the results can be extrapolated to clinical practice.

Looking to Novel Immunotherapeutics in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma

February 17th 2021

Marc J. Braunstein, MD, PhD, discusses the evolution and promise of immunotherapeutics in multiple myeloma.

Giants of Cancer Care Honorees June and Rosenberg Receive Prestigious Prize

February 17th 2021

February 17, 2021 - Carl H. June, MD, and Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, have received the 2021 Dan David Prize Laureate for their research in oncology. They, along with Zelig Eshhar, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, will share a prize of $1 million.

Neoadjuvant Tavokinogene Telseplasmid Plus Nivolumab Under Evaluation in Advanced Melanoma

February 17th 2021

The first patient with operable, locally or regionally advanced melanoma has been dosed with the intratumoral DNA plasmid-based interleukin-12 therapy tavokinogene telseplasmid in combination with nivolumab as a neoadjuvant treatment before surgery in the investigator-initiated, phase 2 OMS-104 trial.

Immuno-Oncology Combinations Dominate in Frontline Treatment of Advanced Clear Cell RCC

February 16th 2021

During a recent OncLive Peer Exchange®, a panel of experts in kidney cancer from the United States and France convened to discuss several important immunotherapy studies presented during the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020, as well as several others that are under way and expected to report out over the next few years.

Frontline Nivolumab/Cabozantinib Maintains Survival Benefit Over Sunitinib in Advanced RCC

February 13th 2021

February 12, 2021 - The combination of nivolumab and cabozantinib continued to showcase a superior survival benefit over single-agent sunitinib when used as first-line treatment in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

T-Cell Engagers and Combinations Push Myeloma Paradigm Forward

February 10th 2021

Sikander Ailawadhi, MD, discusses the future of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, the potential for retreatment with proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, and monoclonal antibodies, and the promise of T-cell engagers in the field.

FDA Approves Cemiplimab for Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma

February 9th 2021

February 9, 2021 - The FDA has approved cemiplimab-rwlc as the first immunotherapy for use in patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma that has previously been treated with a hedgehog pathway inhibitor (HHI) or for whom a HHI is not appropriate.

Borghaei Breaks Down Choices in Immunotherapy Approaches in Lung Cancer

February 8th 2021

With the emergence of multiple immunotherapy approaches in recent years, the decision of whether to use a single agent, to pair it with chemotherapy, or to pair it with another immunotherapy agent has come to the forefront of treatment.

Dr. Raez on the Potential Utility of Cemiplimab in NSCLC

February 8th 2021

Luis E. Raez, MD, discusses the potential utility of cemiplimab-rwlc in non–small cell lung cancer.