Immuno-Oncology

The FDA has granted the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab a breakthrough therapy designation for use in combination with the VEGF inhibitor axitinib in treatment-naïve patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Sagus Sampath, MD, assistant professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope, discusses combinations of immunotherapy and radiation for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Arjun Balar, MD, discusses novel immunotherapy combinations for the treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

Edward S. Kim, MD, discusses the advancements in lung cancer in 2017, specifically in EGFR- and ALK-positive patients and those with PD-L1 expression.

Andrea B. Apolo, MD, medical oncologist, chief of the bladder cancer section of the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, discusses challenges with managing toxicities of checkpoint inhibitors for patients with bladder cancer.

Jason J. Luke, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, discusses the FDA approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) to treat patients with melanoma who are at high risk of disease recurrence following complete surgical resection.

The FDA has approved nivolumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with completely resected melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic disease.

Edward S. Kim, MD, chair, Solid Tumor Oncology and Investigational Therapeutics, Donald S. Kim Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System, discusses PD-L1 as a biomarker in lung cancer.

Findings from the phase III IMpower150 study have placed renewed focus on the optimal role for immunotherapy in the frontline setting for patients with advanced non

Tian Zhang, MD, discusses KEYNOTE-564, as well as the progress that immunotherapy has made in the treatment paradigm of patients with RCC.

Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy has been hailed as a significant advance in anticancer treatment. Yet only a subset of patients experience long-term cancer remission as a result of these therapies, because a significant number of those who initially respond eventually develop resistance.

Pembrolizumab did not improve survival as a second-line treatment for PD-L1–positive patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, according to findings from the phase III KEYNOTE-061 trial.

The FDA has granted a priority review to a sBLA for use of the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab as a frontline treatment for intermediate- and poor-risk patients with advanced RCC.

Andrea Apolo, MD, discusses the management of immune-related adverse events in the treatment of bladder cancer.

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, director of Genitourinary Clinical Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the approved checkpoint inhibitors for the second-line treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

In top-line results from the phase III IMmotion151 trial, the combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and bevacizumab (Avastin) was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the risk for death or progression in patients with PD-L1

Rana R. McKay, MD, medical oncologist, assistant professor, Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, discusses immunotherapy trials in renal cell carcinoma.

The FDA has granted a priority review to a supplemental biologics license application for pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as a treatment for adult and pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma.

The combination of abemaciclib and pembrolizumab showed preliminary signs of activity without additive toxicity for patients with pretreated HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.

Tian Zhang, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the KEYNOTE-564 trial in renal cell carcinoma.

Treatment with the combination of atezolizumab, bevacizumab, carboplatin, and paclitaxel delayed progression or death by 38% compared with bevacizumab and chemotherapy alone for patients with advanced non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has lifted partial clinical holds placed on the phase I CheckMate-039 and phase II CA204142 trials exploring nivolumab-based regimens in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

George R. Simon, MD, discusses the advancements being made with immunotherapy for the treatment of NSCLC.

Nivolumab improved survival versus docetaxel in a predominantly Chinese population of patients with pretreated advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

The established efficacy of single-agent checkpoint inhibition for metastatic urothelial carcinoma along with molecule expression analyses suggests that PD-1/PD-L1 inhibition could hold promise for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, particularly those unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.