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PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors, including nivolumab, atezolizumab, and avelumab, will likely play a major role as the backbone of combination therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for BI 1482694, which is an investigational third-generation, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Researchers compared the B cells of patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy patients, specifically examining granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM CSF), in order to determine their role in interactions between other immune cells within MS.

A new drug application has been submitted for cabozantinib as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who have received one prior therapy.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to the third-generation EGFR TKI BI-1482694 as a potential treatment for patients with EGFR T790M-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Frederick Locke, MD, discusses the potential for KTE-C19 in non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The targeted, oral therapy crizotinib (Xalkori), has been granted priority review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have c-ros oncogene 1 (ROS1)-rearranged tumors.

Waseem Qasim, MBBS, PhD, and his team began researching a novel strategy to enable “off-the-shelf”’ therapy with mismatched donor chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)19 T cells.

The combination of radiation therapy plus cetuximab had higher rates of acute toxicity among patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck compared with radiation therapy plus cisplatin.

Updated findings from early stage clinical trials exploring chimeric antigen receptor-modified T-cell therapies continue to highlight the effectiveness of these approaches for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Two-year event-free survival increased from 52% with conventional therapy to 65% with the addition of rituximab among patients with newly diagnosed, CD20-positive Philadelphia (Ph)-chromosome negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to results from a phase III trial.

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells can eradicate large burdens of multiple myeloma, according to a new study presented at ASH.

Gene therapy has the potential to deliver long-lasting remissions for patients with advanced B-cell malignancies who already have undergone an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

Genetically engineered T cells eradicated multiple myeloma cells in a patient with advanced disease, suggesting the potential to cure the condition.

Ahead of the 57th ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition, December 5–8, 2015, Jeffrey Tyner, PhD, discusses his latest research on screening tumor cells derived from cancer patients to help guide better treatment decisions.

Although prolonged autophagy can result in cancer cell death, recent investigations suggest that therapy-induced autophagy is a reversible response that promotes cancer cell survival, and thus may diminish the efficacy of some therapeutic agents.

Two months after being granted a Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), nivolumab was today approved by regulators for treating mRCC patients who have failed a certain type of prior therapy.

The FDA has approved nivolumab as a treatment for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma following prior treatment with an anti-angiogenic therapy.

A pilot study of the efficacy of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with EGFRvIII-positive glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) has generated encouraging findings.

Though clinical work is ongoing and early, researchers are already considering how to manage potentially fatal neurotoxicities in patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy

The discovery of a possible trigger for PD and Lewy body dementia could provide a new avenue for gene therapy in these neurological conditions.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to avelumab as a potential treatment for patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma following progression on at least one prior chemotherapy regimen.

The FDA has assigned a priority review designation to the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab as a treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma following prior antiangiogenic therapy.

A phase III gene therapy trial for Leber congenital amaurosis showed that patients’ mean mobility test scores promptly improved after treatment, and the benefit was sustained at 1 year, said Albert M. Maguire, MD.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to osimertinib for patients with advanced EGFR T790M mutation positive non–small cell lung cancer following prior therapy on a prior EGFR TKI.

Advanced lung cancer patients who have tumors with mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene may benefit from the combination treatment of erlotinib standard therapy plus tivantinib.

The targeted therapy, nivolumab (Opdivo, Bristol Myers Squibb), improved median overall survival by 5.4 months among patients with previously treated renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared to standard of care everolimus (Afinitor).

A research team in the UK looked at how well rituximab (Rituxan/Genentech) improved the Sjogren's Syndrome symptoms of fatigue and dry mouth.