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Learn how ACCC's bispecific antibody initiative “Best Practices in Expanding Access to Bispecific Antibodies and Adverse Event Management”—developed in partnership with the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer—will help expand the use of these novel therapies and optimize care for patients with cancer.

SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting respiratory tract infection COVID-19 has upended our society and forcefully changed the way we care for patients. Since the emergence of the virus in early 2020, there have been questions surrounding the risk posed to patients with a cancer diagnosis and the safety of anticancer therapies.

Since the approval of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors pembrolizumab and nivolumab for the treatment of metastatic melanoma in 2014, the oncology community has seen a tidal wave of new approvals and indications for immunotherapies to treat cancer.

In recognition of Cancer Immunotherapy Month, ACCCBuzz talked to Sigrun Hallmeyer, MD, the chair of the ACCC Immuno-Oncology Institute’s Executive Committee.

In this newly published IO Whitepaper, we take a forward look at how the ACCC IO Institute meets the needs of the evolving multidisciplinary cancer care team and other interdisciplinary providers who may be involved in caring for patients treated with immunotherapies for cancer.

For perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on clinical trials research in the area of immunotherapy, ACCCBuzz spoke with Joanne Riemer, Research Oncology Nurse at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Joanne is a senior research oncology nurse in the Upper Aero-digestive Team. In January 2011, she was asked to work with the immunology group on …

Molecular biomarker testing is enabling the delivery of precision oncology treatments, but developing processes and pathways for integrating these complex tests into practice can be challenging. Guidelines are necessary to help oncology stakeholders—not only pathologists, but also oncologists and laboratory personnel—make informed decisions about bringing new biomarker tests into practice and …

Are you leveraging the assets of your oncology pharmacists in delivery of immunotherapy for cancer? Oncology pharmacists multidisciplinary team members who help bridge the gap between science and real-world medical practice. Sarah Hudson-DiSalle, PharmD, RPh, describes how your IO program can make the best use of the oncology pharmacist's diverse skillset.

In the current oncology clinical trials landscape, many barriers remain to clinical trial enrollment that affect both the oncologist and the patient. Among these are trial locations, strict eligibility requirements, insufficient resources to support appropriate clinical trial education and screening, as well as patient and provider attitudes about trials.

Determining the best personalized treatment for a patient will require input from a team of physicians, ideally with access to a patient’s information over time and across multiple modalities. Collecting data in a consistent, secure, and scalable manner with the ability to share across disciplines will be vital to furthering personalized medicine.

Research nurse Joannne Riemer, RN, BSN, started her position at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in 2010. Within six months, she was working with checkpoint inhibitors. From her vantage point in clinical trials research, she discusses the many changes in IO clinical trials patient selection over the last eight years.

ACCC Immuno-Oncology Institute Executive Committee Chair Lee Schwartzberg, MD, FACP, highlights his top picks for compelling, potentially practice-changing immunotherapy abstracts presented during the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Dr. Schwartzberg is Chief, Division of Hematology Oncology; Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee; and Executive Director, West …

The Association of Community Cancer Centers recently spoke with Robyn Stacy-Humphries, MD, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2011, about her experience of treatment with CAR T-cell therapy in a clinical trial at the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Learn how the microbiome could potentially be used to predict and enhance response to I-O therapy and to recognize patients who could be at risk for developing immune-related adverse events.

Mounting evidence suggests that the gut microbiome (or microbiota) plays a fundamental role in the activation, regulation, and function of the immune system. There is ongoing interest in the relationship between the gut microbiome and cancer development.