Immuno-Oncology

Arjun V. Balar, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, director, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, discusses findings from the KEYNOTE-057 study presented at the 2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Mohammad Jahanzeb, MD, professor of clinical medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, discusses immunotherapy in the treatment of elderly patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACP, director, Comprehensive Prostate Center, discusses the potential for immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Two doses of adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant led to rapid and durable cell-mediated immune responses, results from a subgroup analysis of a large randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed.1

Mark A. Socinski, MD, executive medical director, AdventHealth Medical Group, discusses the current state of treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, director, University of Washington Medicine’s Genitourinary Cancers Program, associate professor, oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses unmet needs in the treatment of patients with advanced urothelial cancer.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses single-agent pembrolizumab in the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses avelumab/axitinib data in renal cell carcinoma.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for the combination of pembrolizumab and axitinib as a frontline treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, co-director of the Upper Aerodigestive Department in the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses the potential for immunotherapy beyond PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoints in non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for the combination of avelumab and axitinib as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Different patterns of response are associated with the dosages of immunosuppressants used to manage the adverse effects of immunotherapies.

Janakiraman Subramanian, MD, a medical oncologist and director of thoracic oncology and director of the Center for Precision Medicine at St. Luke’s Cancer Institute, discusses the future of immunotherapy in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, director, University of Washington Medicine’s Genitourinary Cancers Program, associate professor, oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the role of checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of patients with localized bladder cancer.