Tag: immunotherapy

Dr. Peter Martin On Future Treatment Options for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

In this video from OncLive, Dr. Peter Martin discusses potential changes in the future treatment of younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), as well as new lines of therapy currently being developed for all patients with MCL. These new therapies include Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors, PI3 kinase inhibitors, Bcl-2 inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, and immunotherapy agents.

In the Lymphoma Program our patient care is informed by our clinical research. A full listing of available trials for MCL can be found on our clinical trials website.

Unmasking a Killer: How Immunotherapy Helps Your Body Find Cancer and Destroy It

One of the difficulties in treating all cancers is the inability of a person’s immune system to target cancer cells because of the cancer cells ability to avoid detection. Researchers throughout the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian have been researching new ways to help the immune system find these cancer cells. This field of research is known as immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy that helps the immune system fight cancer through the use of substances in the living organism. You can find more information and an explanation as to how immunotherapy fights cancer in the below video:

http://www.nyp.org/cancerunmasked/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtGKer20aY

While specific immunotherapy derived treatments are still in the clinical trial phase for lymphoma this is an area of active research. In this video Lymphoma Program Director, Dr. John P. Leonard refers to the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors as an, “…important new frontier…” in the treatment of lymphoma. Currently clinicals for lymphoma related immunotherapy are ongoing. Available trials for immunotherapy at Weill Cornell can be found on the Joint Clinical Trials website.