Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Existing Concerns
July 5th 2023In this fourth episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss existing concerns regarding multicancer early detection tests.
Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Need for a Multidisciplinary Clinic
June 28th 2023In this third episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, underscore the need for a multidisciplinary clinic to appropriately interpret multicancer early detection test results.
Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Research Efforts Under Way
June 21st 2023In this second episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, discuss some of the challenges faced with randomized control trials and 2 efforts underway that are slated to provide revelatory data on these assays.
Real-World Analysis Supports Use of Brexu-Cel in Relapsed/Refractory MCL
June 15th 2023The real-world efficacy and safety of brexucabtagene autoleucel were similar to the outcomes seen in the phase 2 ZUMA-2 trial, regardless of patients’ treatment history, according to results from a real-world subgroup analysis of patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests: Overview and Call for RCTs
June 14th 2023In this first episode of OncChats: Examining the Promise of Multicancer Early Detection Tests, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Niloy Jewel J. Samadder, MD, provide an overview on multicancer early detection tests and the need for randomized clinical trials to further explore their use.
Dr Kambhampati on the Real-world Efficacy of Brexu-Cel in Heavily Pretreated Patients With MCL
June 13th 2023Swetha Kambhampati, MD, discusses key findings from an analysis of real-world efficacy outcomes with brexucabtagene autoleucel in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
FDA Approval Insights: Epcoritamab in Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL
June 12th 2023Dr Phillips discusses the FDA approval of epcoritamab in patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL key efficacy and safety findings from the EPCORE NHL-1 trial, and the potential future of bispecific antibodies in this setting.
Dr Phillips on the Investigation of Acalabrutinib/Benendamustine/Rituximab in MCL
June 7th 2023Tycel Phillips, MD, MPH, discusses the safety and efficacy of acalabrutinib plus bendamustine and rituximab from a phase 1 trial in patients with treatment-naive and relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
Gaining Ground in Gynecologic and Hematologic Cancers at ASCO 2023: Drs Herrera, Westin, and Jabbour
June 5th 2023OncLive® will be LIVE with OncLive® News Network: On Location at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. Each day, we will broadcast a series of interviews with top thought leaders, to learn their thoughts and reactions to data presented across hematologic oncology during the conference.
Epcoritamab Approval Introduces Novel Later-line Treatment Option in R/R DLBCL
May 31st 2023Tycel Phillips, MD, discusses the significance of the FDA approval for epcoritamab in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, key data from the EPCORE NHL-1 trial that support this approval, and how the approval of epcoritamab signals the expanding role of bispecific antibodies in this patient population.
Novel CDK9 Inhibitor Looks to Expand Options in MYC-Amplified Solid Tumors and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Investigators are aiming to add another agent to the treatment armamentarium for patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors, as well as those with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with the development of KB-0742, a CDK9 inhibitor.
METTL3 Controls Splicing Factor Abundance and Aids Progression in CLL
May 24th 2023Yiming Wu, PhD, discusses the rationale for studying splicing defects in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia without spliceosome mutations, shared key findings from this study, and emphasized how these findings support further research with METTL3 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other hematologic malignancies with RNA splicing dysregulation.
Oncologists Prepare to Bridge Knowledge Gap on Clinical Trial Outcomes With Patients
May 8th 2023When patients with cancer are asked to be participants in a clinical trial, they are informed that a primary purpose of the investigative effort is to develop objectively valid, generalizable information that may be of value to patients with the same malignancy or benefit researchers in the development of future studies.
Kim Discusses the Development of LP-300 Plus Chemotherapy in Advanced Lung Cancer
April 27th 2023Dr Kim discusses the evaluation of LP-300 for the treatment of patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma, the rationale for exploring this agent in combination with chemotherapy, and the ongoing HARMONIC trial investigating the combination of LP-300 plus carboplatin and pemetrexed.
Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer: Ongoing Research
April 27th 2023In this seventh episode of OncChats: Taking Organoids From Bench to Bedside Through Endoscopy in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Richard Burkhart, MD, discuss ongoing research such as the PASS-01 trial (NCT04469556) in pancreatic cancer and ways to translate advances in the metastatic setting to the curative setting.
BASECAMP-1 Aims to Identify Patients Eligible for Treatment With Novel CAR T-Cell Agent
Looking to replicate the impressive findings with CAR T-cell therapies observed in patients with hematologic malignancies, investigators have initiated the BASECAMP-1 trial, with the hope of identifying patients with advanced solid tumors who will be suitable candidates for treatment in a subsequent trial evaluating the investigational agent A2B530.