January 11th 2018
Amid rapid-fire developments in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) research, the role of checkpoint immunotherapy continues to mature.
January 10th 2018
David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the successes with immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma and gave his insight on the future treatment of these patients.
January 9th 2018
The FDA has granted the combination of the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab and the VEGF/FGF inhibitor lenvatinib a breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Adjuvant pembrolizumab reduced the risk of recurrence by 43% in patients with stage III resected high-risk melanoma.
January 5th 2018
Despite the promising developments in this arena, many patients with cancer respond inadequately to immune checkpoint monotherapy, and others develop serious (grade 3-4) toxicities that require treatment cessation.
January 3rd 2018
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved the use of pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with radically unresectable urothelial carcinoma who progressed after cancer chemotherapy
Guru Sonpavde, MD, director of Bladder Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the potential for immunotherapy in penile cancer.
January 2nd 2018
Karen Reckamp, MD, discusses positive phase III data, recent regulatory approvals, and what research the new year is likely to bring to the field of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
December 28th 2017
Daniel E. Haggstrom, MD, discusses the developing area of immunotherapy combinations for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.