Real-world evidence has a place in cancer immunotherapy
However, some challenges still limit its implementation in clinical practice
Targeting claudins in pancreatic adenocarcinoma is promising, early-phase findings suggest
Study confirms favourable safety profiles and encouraging efficacy of an anti-claudin 18.2 antibody-drug conjugate
Immunotherapy combinations consolidate their place in the first-line treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
Promising new data are presented for nivolumab plus ipilimumab and the single tremelimumab regular interval durvalumab regimen in Asian patients and those with impaired liver function
Short durvalumab infusions appear to be safe for the first-line treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer
Early results from a phase III trial support 30-minutes infusions of immunotherapy with some advantages for patients
Two oral immune checkpoint inhibitors show preliminary efficacy and manageable safety in early trials
Promising results support the further development of new small-molecule PD-L1 inhibitors with favourable benefit–risk profiles and improved ease of use compared with antibodies
Adjuvant immunotherapy continues to confirm its efficacy in melanoma
Updated data from two studies report significant improvements in recurrence-free survival and distant-metastasis free survival with pembrolizumab or nivolumab
Immunotherapy
The expanding toolbox for immuno-oncology
Novel treatment approaches show encouraging early results in solid tumours, but ways to boost precision immunotherapy are needed
Pioneering the future of immunotherapy: new targets, novel strategies
Several studies report on promising data with immunomodulation and alternative approaches
Early-phase studies show therapeutic potential of oncolytic viruses across cancer types
However, presented findings raise some questions about their efficacy in non-injected lesions and the durability of responses
Pre-operative immunoradiation shows clinical benefit in patients with high-risk, early-stage breast cancer
Results from the Neo-CheckRay study report an acceptable toxicity profile with the addition of a PD-L1 inhibitor to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy