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
Extended safety information and PROs data support key trial results in metastatic breast cancer
Data presentations from DESTINY-Breast04, DESTINY-Breast02 and EMERALD trials confirm the value of trastuzumab deruxtecan and elacestrant in this setting, despite moderate drop-out rates for PROs
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
Second-line atezolizumab plus cabozantinib fails to improve overall survival in metastatic NSCLC
Final OS analysis of the phase III CONTACT-01 trial reports negative results for immunotherapy versus docetaxel in patients progressing on checkpoint inhibitors plus chemotherapy
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
First-line immunotherapy prolongs survival in advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer
Results from the RUBY trial show improvements both in progression-free survival and overall survival in patients treated with dostarlimab plus standard chemotherapy, indicating a new standard of care
Cancer Research
Gathering preclinical pace: cellular immunotherapy against solid tumours
Two recently published studies provide preclinical insights into ‘training’ CAR T cells that may potentially lead to more effective and less toxic immunotherapy approaches
Preliminary activity is reported with an anti-IL-8 monoclonal antibody plus nivolumab in melanoma
Combination therapy with BMS-986253 shows promise in patients progressing on checkpoint inhibitors
Combined biomarker analysis shows promise as a tissue agnostic response predictor for immunotherapy-based treatment
Pre-treatment expression of Ki-67 plus FOXC1 plus PD-L1 predicted response to neoadjuvant treatment in breast and head and neck tumours, although more work is required to determine its use in the context of immunotherapy alone
Do immune checkpoint inhibitors affect COVID-19 severity?
A joint analysis of the OnCovid and ESMO-CoCARE registries confirms the protective role of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in cancer patients treated with immunotherapy