Integrating TIL-Based Therapy into Melanoma Treatment: Omar Hamid, MD

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The chief of translational Research and immunotherapy at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute discussed the integration of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte–based therapy into the melanoma armamentarium.

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OncLive spoke with Omid Hamid, MD, chief, Translational Research and Immunotherapy, director, Melanoma Therapeutics, director, Melanoma Center and Phase I Immuno-Oncology Program, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, about the integration of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)–based therapy into the melanoma armamentarium.

TIL-based therapies are being developed for melanoma and solid tumors in cervical and lung cancer. Hamid discussed centralized processes for TIL production being developed that will allow adoptive T-cell therapies to be more widely accessible to patients. With these processes, Hamid said, the therapy can be given regionally, but produced centrally.

Melanoma is a disease in which TIL-based therapies could have utility, Hamid says. Melanoma has immunotherapeutic options with checkpoint inhibitors as monotherapies or in combination regimens; however, viable therapies have been difficult to develop for second- or third-line use.

Lifileucel (LN-144) is a promising cryopreserved autologous TIL-based therapy that demonstrated long-term responses in patients with heavily pretreated advanced or metastatic melanoma who progressed on checkpoint inhibitor therapy, Hamid concludes.

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