Videos

David E. Avigan, MD, discusses research surrounding CAR T-cell therapy in lymphoproliferative diseases.

Noelle Frey, MD, MSCE, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Wayne A. Marasco, MD, PhD, discusses ways CAR T cells are being engineered to avoid on-target adverse events in solid tumors.

Bijal D. Shah, MD, associate professor, Department of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, professor of medicine, Department of Hematology and Oncology, and director, GW Cancer Center, discusses differences between FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapies.

Michael Wang, MD, discusses CAR T-cell therapy and triple-resistance in mantle cell lymphoma.

The only thing that should matter in these patients is their genetic code, but often it’s your zip code that really restrains your ability to access the healthcare you deserve, explained Ahmar Zaidi, MD, pediatric hematologist-oncologist, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Children's Hospital of Michigan, when discussing the possibility of a gene therapy for sickle cell.

Bianca D. Santomasso, MD, PhD, discusses how she prevents central nervous system toxicity due to CAR T-cell therapy for aggressive B-cell lymphoma in her own practice.

Hans Hammers, MD, PhD, associate professor of internal medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses the challenges with using CAR T-cell therapy in renal cell carcinoma.

David G. Maloney, MD, PhD, discusses the initiative to use the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Cellular Therapy Registry to report real world experience of tisagenlecleucel CAR T cells targeting CD19 in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Joshua P. Sasine, MD, PhD, clinical instructor of medicine, hematologist, and oncologist, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses new developments with CAR T-cell therapy.

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses what therapy to give patients with renal cell carcinoma after they have received a PD-1/PD-L1 blockade.

Michael Wang, MD, discusses resistance to CAR T-cell therapy and the next steps to overcoming this challenge in treatment for mantle cell lymphoma.

Neil Minkoff, MD, chief medical officer and vice president, EmpiraMed, discusses his hopes if the first gene therapy for sickle cell disease is approved and if he has any concerns with payer reactions.

Xiuli Wang, PhD, discusses emerging CAR T-cell therapy in hematologic cancers.

Joshua P. Sasine, MD, PhD, clinical instructor of medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses how to determine if a patient will have a response to CAR T-cell therapy.

Neurology News Network for the week ending August 10, 2019.

This week, the top managed care stories included CMS giving chimeric antigen receptor T-cell payments a boost; a US task force announcing that those at risk for pancreatic cancer should be screened; FDA revealing Novartis withheld data about a high-cost gene therapy.

Nelson Jen An Chao, MD, professor of medicine, Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Cancer Research Professor, chief, Division of Cell Therapy in the Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses minimal residual disease (MRD) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Matthew G. Mei, MD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and hematologist/oncologist, City of Hope, discusses investigational CAR T-cell therapies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Richard W. Joseph, MD, internist and oncologist, Mayo Clinic, discusses considerations for frontline therapy selection in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Deepu Madduri, MD, assistant professor, medicine, hematology and medical oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the potential impact of CAR T-cell therapy in multiple myeloma.

Richard W. Joseph, MD, internist and oncologist, Mayo Clinic, discusses the process of selecting frontline therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Danny Rischin, MD, director, Division of Cancer Medicine, head, Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia, discusses the phase III KEYNOTE-048 trial, which examines pembrolizumab or pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy versus EXTREME as first-line therapy for patients with recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Sattva Neelapu, MD, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in the third-line setting for patients with large B-cell lymphoma.

Alison R. Sehgal, MD, assistant professor of medicine, hematologist/medical oncologist, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the clinical implications of CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Hematological Malignancies program, and medical oncologist, hematologist, and clinical instructor at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, discusses the latest updates with CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Neurology News Network for the week ending July 13, 2019.