February 17th 2024
A study suggests that a novel CAR T-cell therapy could be a curative treatment for some patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with 25% of responders still in remission after 6 years.
What’s in Your Basket? Tumor Agnostic Trials and the Reshaping of Precision Medicine in Oncology: A Focus on TSC1/2 Mutations
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Medical Crossfire®: Optimizing Treatment Sequencing for HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer Based on Emerging Evidence and Evolving Algorithms
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Community Practice Connections™: What’s Next for Patients with Breast Cancer, and How Can We Effectively Optimize PARP-, HER2/3-, and TROP2-Targeted Regimens in Treatment Plans?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Have HER2-Low Expressing Breast Cancers and Novel Advances in the Field Redefined Care As We Knew It?
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Patient, Provider and Caregiver Connection™: Addressing Patient Concerns During the Treatment and Management of HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Show Me Your Care Plan: Nursing Considerations for Managing Breast Cancer Patients
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Community Practice Connections™: The Newest Frontier in HR+ Breast Cancer—Targeting ESR1 Mutations with Next-Generation Endocrine Therapy
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Clinical Case Vignette Series™: 40th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference®
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Oncology Consultations®: Next Generation SERDs—Key Data and Practical Takeaways for the Community Physician
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Medical Crossfire®: Leveraging Multidisciplinary Teams in Early–Stage Breast Cancer When the Goal is Cure
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Show Me the Data®: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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HER2+ Breast Cancer Tumor Board: Navigating Current and Evolving Strategies from Early Stages to Metastases
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Multidisciplinary Management of TNBC: Immunotherapy, PARP, TROP2, Oh My!
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® West
July 12-13, 2024
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23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
July 19-20, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: The Advent of TROP2-Targeted Treatment Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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Show Me the Data™: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: Real-World Applications of Novel Therapies Across TNBC and Addressing Disparities in Care
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Community Practice Connections™: Leveraging Multidisciplinary Teams in Early-Stage Breast Cancer When the Goal Is Cure
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Community Practice Connections®: Evaluating the Evolving Treatment Landscape for mHR+ Breast Cancer-How to Personalize Care and Improve Patient Outcomes
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Community Practice Connections™: 22nd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer®
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6th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium: An Illustrated Tumor Board
October 18-19, 2024
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Advances in TNBC: Communicating with Your Patients About Clinical Trial Awareness and Treatment Concerns to Improve Clinical Outcomes
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22nd Annual School of Breast Oncology
November 7-9, 2024
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42nd Annual CFS®: Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow®
November 13-15, 2024
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Emerging Treatments and Evolving Paradigms in HER2-Low Breast Cancer
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Matching the Right Patients to the Right Therapies in TNBC: Case-Based Applications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, PARP Inhibitors, and TROP2-Targeted ADCs
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Clinical Vignettes™: The Experts Explain How They Integrate PET Imaging into Metastatic HR+ Breast Cancer Care Settings
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Compelling Sacituzumab Govitecan Data in mTNBC Add to FDA Approval Hopes
April 7th 2020Treatment with sacituzumab govitecan resulted in “compelling evidence of efficacy” in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, leading to an early halt of the phase III ASCENT study, announced Immunomedics in a press release.
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ZUMA-2 Update: KTE-X19 Induced Durable Remission in R/R Mantle Cell Lymphoma
April 3rd 2020Durable remissions were elicited with KTE-X19 in a majority of patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma, according to the updated results from the ZUMA-2 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The treatment did, however, cause serious adverse events that were consistent with known toxicities of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
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CAR T Cells Push Forward in Solid Tumors Following Positive Results in Hematology
April 1st 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, discussed the expansion of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell research in the solid tumor space and the challenges researchers will need to overcome in order to make this therapy effective for patients outside of the hematologic treatment landscape.
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Immunotherapy With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Signals Efficacy in Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer
March 20th 2020GEN-1 immunotherapy demonstrated dose-dependent efficacy results in newly diagnosed patients with advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer when treated in combination with the standard of care, according to results from the OVATION 2 study. Based on positive data in the phase I portion, the study is moving on to phase II with enrollment expected to begin in the second half of the year.
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ESMO Collaborative Group Sets Standard for Defining MSI and Implementing Testing
March 11th 2020Microsatellite instability has been an FDA-indicated biomarker for immunotherapy since 2017, when the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab was approved for patients with solid tumors found to be mismatch repair deficient or MSI high. Other approvals since then, such as for the combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with MSI-H/dMMR metastatic colorectal can­cer, have established the relevance of cancer thera­pies for tumors with this biomarker specifically rather than tumor histology alone.
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Existing CAR T Cells Show Promise Even as Newer Agents Emerge in Multiple Myeloma
February 28th 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology at the 2020 International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Noopur Raje, MD, discussed emerging CAR T-cell therapies in multiple myeloma. She also explained how CAR NK cells differ from other CAR agents.
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Favorable Safety and Efficacy May Be Possible With Off-the-Shelf CAR T Cells in NHL
February 22nd 2020Use of an off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor T-cell product may be feasible for use in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies for whom no other available therapies exist, according to results of a phase I trial in adult and pediatric patients that were presented at the 2020 Transplant & Cellular Therapies Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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Genetic Profiling Suggests Rationale for Limited Response to Immunotherapy in Osteosarcoma
February 22nd 2020Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors appears to elicit limited clinical activity in patients with osteosarcoma. In a study, investigators at MD Anderson Cancer Center found that certain factors like poor infiltration of the tumor by immune cells, low activity from available T cells, a lack of immune-stimulating neoantigens, and multiple immune-suppressing pathways may interfere with response to immunotherapy in these patients, according to a press release from the organization.<br />
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CAR T-Cell Therapy With Liso-Cel in the Outpatient Setting Reported as Safe and Effective
February 21st 2020Outpatient treatment with lisocabtagene maraleucel had consistent efficacy and safety with that of a previously reported clinical trial involving patients who were treated at university medical centers, according to results of 3 studies reported at the 2020 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings in Orlando, Florida.
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Factors Affecting Hemopoietic Recovery in Patients Following CAR T-Cell Therapy
February 21st 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology at the 2020 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings, Craig Sauter, MD, discussed the retrospective real-world review of patients with hematologic malignancies who developed cytopenia post-chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
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Plinabulin Combination Enhances Immune System and Prevents Neutropenia in Patients With Cancer
February 19th 2020Plinabulin in combination with docetaxel, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and pegfilgrastim led to a dose-dependent increase in mean haptoglobin and absolute neutrophil count, demonstrating potency in the stimulation of the adaptive and innate immune system following previous positive efficacy and safety results, according to data analyzed from the phase III BPI-2358-106 study presented at the 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology-Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium.
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The Rationale for Bemcentinib Plus Pembrolizumab in AXL-Positive NSCLC
February 11th 2020Matthew Krebs, MBChB, PhD, explains the rationale for a phase II study of bemcentinib, a first-in-class selective AXL inhibitor, in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, which he presented at the 2019 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting.
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CAR NK-Cell Therapy Induces Clinical Responses in Patients With NHL and CLL
February 6th 2020The majority of patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were participants in a phase I/IIa trial had clinical responses to treatment with TAK-007, a cord blood–derived chimeric antigen receptor natural killer–cell therapy that targets CD19, with no major toxicities experienced by patients, according to a press release from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Rationalizing the Study of Intratumoral Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer Origin Liver Metastases
February 5th 2020Jason Williams, MD, the director of Interventional Oncology and Immunotherapy oncologist at the Williams Cancer Institute, discusses a study in which an immunotherapy combination was administered intratumorally to patients with liver metastases linked to breast cancer, which he presented in a poster at the 2019 Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting.
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Immunotherapy Combination Induces Promising ORR in Patients With Advanced Sarcoma
February 5th 2020The combination of talimogene laherparepvec plus pembrolizumab led to a promising objective response rate in patients with advanced sarcoma who typically have limited treatment options, according to a phase II clinical trial published in <em>JAMA Oncology</em>.
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HER2-Directed CAR T-Cell Therapy Appears Active in Phase I Trial for Advanced Sarcoma
February 2nd 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Shoba A. Navai, MD, discussed the evolving role of CAR T-cell therapy in solid tumors, including sarcomas and how the efficacy and safety compare with CAR T cells in this space compared with hematologic malignancies.
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FDA Clears IND Application for TPST-1495 in Advanced Solid Tumors
January 31st 2020The Investigational New Drug application for small molecule dual antagonist TPST-1495 was cleared by the FDA to begin a clinical investigation into the treatment of prostaglandin-driven tumors, according to a press release from Tempest Therapeutics.
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Immunotherapeutic Agents Expand Treatment Landscape for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
January 28th 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD, discussed the highlights from the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium for the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer, as well as those with HER2-positive breast cancer. She also shared her thoughts on the key takeaways from the 2019 meeting.
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Immunotherapy Vaccine Prolongs Survival in HLA-A2-Positive Advanced NSCLC
January 23rd 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, <a>discussed </a>the research around the Tedopi vaccine and how it addresses an unmet medical need for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have failed immune checkpoint inhibitors. He also explained the use of genomic testing to aid the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
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Gamma Secretase Inhibitor Improves Responses to BCMA CAR T Cells in Myeloma
January 14th 2020In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Andrew J. Cowan, MD, discussed the findings from the first-in-human clinical trial evaluating the combination of a GSI and BCMA CAR T cells in patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma. He highlighted the next steps for this research and how he sees CAR T-cell therapy evolving over the coming years.
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Real-World Tisagenlecleucel CAR T-Cell Data Mirrors Clinical Trial Data in DLBCL
January 13th 2020The real-world efficacy and safety demonstrated with tisagenlecleucel, a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, was similar to results from the pivotal JULIET trial, according to Samantha Jaglowski, MD professor at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center patients.
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CAR T Cells Liso-Cel Demonstrate Promising Activity and Manageable Safety in CLL and SLL
January 11th 2020The CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel demonstrated promising responses and a manageable toxicity profile in patients with high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic leukemia who have previously progressed on ibrutinib in the updated findings from the phase I/II TRANSCEND CLL 004 study.
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For Advanced Heme Malignancies, CAR T Cells Overcome Exhaustion, Tumor Escape
December 28th 2019Progress in the development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and other cell-based therapies has led to new therapeutic options for advanced malignancies. CAR T-cell agents approved by the FDA in recent years include axicabtagene ciloleucel for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and tisagenlecleucel for both DLBCL and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Immunotherapy Advances Are Explored in Merkel Cell Carcinoma
December 28th 2019Early-stage skin cancers that remain localized are often successfully treated through a variety of surgical techniques as well as radiation therapy, photodynamic therapy, and topical chemotherapy, but advanced cases that are beyond surgery may respond to immunotherapies. This setting will be discussed during the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer’s 34th Annual Meeting.
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