Videos

Deepu Madduri, MD, assistant professor, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses treatment after CAR T-cell therapy in patients with myeloma.

Michael Pulsipher, MD, director of cellular therapy and stem cell transplantation, professor of pediatrics, USC Keck School of Medicine, discusses the role of MRD testing in pediatric patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy.

Alexander E. Perl, MD, associate professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, discusses the promise of CAR T cells in the treatment of pediatric leukemia.

Nina Shah, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses initial results from a phase I clinical trial of bb21217, a next-generation anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy, in patients with multiple myeloma during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.

While new therapies like chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, can have amazing results, the innovation of these treatments has outstripped the United States’ ability to pay for them, said Michael Kolodziej, MD, vice president and chief innovation officer at ADVI Health, Inc.

Jordan Gauthier, MD, MSc, senior clinical research fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses a study comparing efficacy and toxicity of CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells alone or in combination with ibrutinib in patients with relapsed and/or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.

After being treated for his chronic lymphocytic leukemia with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, Brian Koffman, MDCM, DCFP, DABFM, MS Ed, medical director, CLL Society, is being followed for 15 years to better understand if there are any undiscovered adverse events that pop up and how durable the response is.

Jonathon B. Cohen, MD, assistant professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Since chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is still in early development there are benefits and risks that eligible patients will have to weigh, including the durable response against the limited amount of data and toxic side effects, said Brian Koffman, MDCM, DCFP, DABFM, MS Ed, medical director, CLL Society.

Andre Goy, MD, MS, chairman and executive director of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, discusses the affordability of cancer treatment breakthroughs such as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

Ajai Chari, MD, associate professor of medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the impact of CAR T-cell therapy in myeloma.

Susan M. O’Brien, MD, hematologist/oncologist at University of California, Irvine Health, discusses the potential for CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses an analysis of the CheckMate-214 study in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Armin Ghobadi, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, discusses the potential development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in solid tumors.

Eric Smith, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell persistence in patients with multiple myeloma.

Bijal D. Shah, MD, medical oncologist, Moffitt Cancer Center, assistant professor of oncology, University of South Florida, discusses the challenges of developing clinical trials for CAR T cells in mantle cell lymphoma.

Charalambos (Babis) Andreadis, MD, MSCE, associate professor of clinical medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses response to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Jonathon B. Cohen, MD, assistant professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, discusses combination therapy for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Martin Forster, MD, a medical oncologist, University College London Hospitals, discusses the next steps with the investigational agent lurbinectedin in combination with doxorubicin as a second-line therapy for patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Nina Shah, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the current state of CAR T-cell therapy in multiple myeloma.

Martin Forster, MD, a medical oncologist, University College London Hospitals, discusses data of lurbinectedin plus doxorubicin as a second-line therapy for patients with small cell lung cancer.

Jose M. Pacheco, MD, an assistant professor of medicine/medical oncology at the Colorado University School of Medicine, discusses frontline therapy for patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Abhinav Deol, MD, associate professor with Karmanos Cancer Institute, discusses patient eligibility for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in hematologic oncology.

Eric Smith, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses novel chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies in development for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

Peter J. Van Veldhuizen, MD, hematologist/oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses combination therapy for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Could the introduction of gene therapies into the Alzheimer space be the beginning of a new era of treatment?

The chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine shared his experience with the therapy and its potential in the space.