Adoptive cell therapy using TILs shows clinically meaningful and durable efficacy in advanced mucosal melanoma
Antitumour responses were consistent with those previously reported for a broader population of patients with advanced melanoma
Are we over-treating patients with locally advanced rectal cancer?
Recently presented results suggest that a subset of patients with early stage rectal cancer could skip pre-operative radiotherapy, thus raising some questions about the standard of care
TIL therapy – an opportunity for a few centres?
Regulatory, practical and economic challenges are associated with implementing this personalised treatment on a larger scale, thus currently limiting its availability and accessibility to patients
Cemiplimab survival improvements in NSCLC are durable
Extended analyses from two regulatory phase III trials show that the benefits of anti-PD-1-based therapy persist long term, even in patients with brain metastases
Long-term event-free survival benefits of neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy for resectable NSCLC
Additional exploratory analyses of the phase III CheckMate 816 trial reveal that event-free survival at 3 years is not influenced by surgical parameters and suggest that tumour inflammation may be a useful predictive biomarker
New therapies, new toxicities
Side-effects may occur at unpredictable timepoints during a patient’s treatment journey and even after treatment cessation
New FGFR inhibitors show potential for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma
Two early studies investigate the anticancer activity of derazantinib and RLY-4008 in patients with FGFR inhibitor-naïve cholangiocarcinoma
Has TIL therapy the potential to change cancer treatment?
After TILs have shown benefits in advanced melanoma, many ‘synthetic biology’ strategies can be conceived to potentially extend this clinical signal to other patient groups
Overall survival data further support sacituzumab govitecan in HR+/HER2– metastatic breast cancer
Findings from the TROPiCS-02 trial show an overall survival benefit of sacituzumab govitecan in heavily pre-treated patients but raise questions about its optimal clinical implementation
How to integrate tebentafusp in the checkpoint-based clinical management of patients with uveal melanoma?
Since its approval, tebentafusp is changing the treatment landscape for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma, but many questions remain