Videos

Manuel Litchman, MD, President and CEO of Mustang Bio Inc, highlights the advantages of using CAR-T therapies as treatments for rare cancers.

Luciano J. Costa, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, discusses phase II findings with the triplet regimen of venetoclax (Venclexta), carfilzomib (Kyprolis), and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Costa shared this insight in an interview with OncLive during the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting.

James Urbanic, MD, associate professor, Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, University of California, San Diego, discusses the evolution of radiation therapy in the treatment of patients with oligometastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Alexander E. Perl, MD, associate professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania, discusses remaining challenges with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Lauren C. Harshman, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses moving immunotherapy earlier in the line of therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Renier J. Brentjens, MD, PhD, associate professor, chief, Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses targets for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Nilanjan Ghosh, MD, PhD, physician, Levine Cancer Institute, discusses the future of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies.

Ian W. Flinn, MD, PhD, director of Lymphoma Research, principal investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the FDA approval of the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) for use in adult patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma—including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Maung Myo Htut, MD, assistant clinical professor of hematology and hematopoietic cell transplantation, City of Hope, discusses the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in patients with multiple myeloma.

Since patients who receive CAR T-cell therapy experience unique adverse events, there will need to be education for providers who care for these patients, explained Stephen Schuster, MD, of the Perelman School of Medicine.

Sarah B. Goldberg, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, discusses sequencing after therapy with osimertinib (Tagrisso) in EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Anas Younes, MD, chief of Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the future of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for patients with hematologic malignancies.

While there has been progress with using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to treat multiple myeloma, these treatments aren’t ready for prime time, said Nina Shah, MD, associate professor, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

Jae Park, MD, hematologist oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the potential of CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

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Renier J. Brentjens, MD, PhD, associate professor, chief, Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses managing patients after treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Lori A. Leslie, MD, lymphoma attending, John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses the developing role of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

Alexander E. Perl, MD, associate professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania, discusses potential chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in hematologic malignancies.

David M. Nanus, MD, medical oncologist, Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses adjuvant therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Jim Schwartz, RPh, president of the National Community Oncology Dispensing Association and executive director of pharmacy operations for Texas Oncology, discusses how his practice will handle using CAR T-cell therapies to treat patients.

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Steven Coutre, MD, professor of medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, discusses challenges with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Carlos R. Bachier, MD, program director of Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the relationship between chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and stem cell transplant.

Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD, associate professor, chief, Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the goal of armored chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells.

Sarah B. Goldberg, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, discusses testing for and treating resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy in non–small cell lung cancer.

Stephen J. Schuster, MD, professor of hematology/oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center, discusses CAR T-cell therapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Holger L. Gieschen, MD, assistant professor, Department of Radiology, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, radiation oncologist, West Cancer Center, discusses the safety profile of radiation therapy in patients with non–small cell lung cancers (NSCLC).