Cell Therapy News

It took more than 35 years for tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, which Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, and colleagues first reported on in 1988 for the treatment of advanced melanoma, to progress enough to gain FDA approval.

Two blood biomarkers — pre-lymphodepletion C-reactive protein and ferritin — may help predict which patients with lymphoma are at risk for poor outcomes after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

MRIs and lumbar punctures may not provide enough therapeutic value to be standard-of-care diagnostic tests in patients suffering neurologic symptoms following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

Matt Kalaycio, MD, FACP, has been elected chair of National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s board of directors.

A personalized cancer vaccine produced T-cell responses in certain patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to results from a randomized study presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

The FDA has approved Bristol Myers Squibb and 2seventy bio’s idecabtagene vicleucel for treatment of patients with triple-class exposed relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to a company release.

A novel bivalent-targeting, intrathecally delivered chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy decreased tumor size in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, according to results from a phase 1 study published in Nature Medicine.

Clinicians treating patients with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes should closely monitor toxicities associated with interleukin-2 and halt administration of the drug if necessary, according to the first guidelines regarding the therapy.

Most of the major cancer clinical trial centers in the U.S. are located near more affluent and white populations compared with the national average, according to results published in JAMA Oncology.

An FDA advisory committee voted that a pair of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies should be approved for earlier line treatments in adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, although one produced far more deliberation.