AACR Annual Meeting | Conferences

April 21, 2018

Scott Newman, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, discusses the St. Jude Cloud data-sharing resource for the research community.

April 19, 2018

To help reduce the chance of drug-induced toxicities and improve patient outcomes, NantOmics has developed a test that utilizes pharmacogenomic screening of patients to identify potential genomic variants that could impact treatment decisions. In results from the NantOmics pharmacogenomics test, more than 7% of patients were determined to have a variant that could potentially alter the course of their treatment.

April 18, 2018

Benjamin J. Drapkin, MD, PhD, clinical fellow in medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the co-clinical trial of olaparib (Lynparza) and temozolomide (temodar) in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patient-derived xenografts (PDX) models during the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting.

April 18, 2018

Patients with metastatic or recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck experienced a 32% reduction in the risk of death compared with investigator's choice of therapy, according to updated findings with a minimum of 2 years of follow-up from the phase III CheckMate-141 study.

April 18, 2018

In an updated analysis of CheckMate-586, investigators found that tumor mutational burden identified patients with non–small cell lung cancer who were more likely to respond to first-line combination immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab.

April 18, 2018

Kristopher Bosse, MD, attending physician, Division of Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses findings with the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) D3-GPC2-PBD for neuroblastoma presented at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting.

April 18, 2018

In findings from the phase I/II ECHO-203 study presented at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting, there were no clinical responses demonstrated by adding the IDO1 inhibitor epacadostat to the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab in patients with pancreatic cancer.

April 17, 2018

According to phase Ib study findings presented at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting, combining the intratumoral toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist CMP-001 and pembrolizumab showed clinical activity in reversing PD-1 checkpoint inhibition resistance in patients with metastatic melanoma.

April 17, 2018

The 1-year progression-free survival rate was more than tripled with the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab versus chemotherapy in treatment-naïve patients with non–small cell lung cancer with high tumor mutation burden, according to initial findings from the phase III CheckMate-227 trial.

April 17, 2018

Findings, presented at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting, demonstrated that an off-the-shelf, dual-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell approach found positive results in preclinical specificity, functionality, and efficacy studies.