Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, presented “Immunotherapy Trials” during the 30th Annual International Prostate Cancer Update on January 23rd, 2020 in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
How to cite: Petrylak, Daniel P. “Immunotherapy Trials” January 23rd, 2020. Accessed Nov 2024. https://dev.grandroundsinurology.com/immunotherapy-trials/
Immunotherapy Trials – Summary:
Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, Director of Genitourinary Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Urology, Co-Leader of Cancer Signaling Networks, and Co-Director of the Signal Transduction Program at Yale University Cancer Center, discusses the various trials currently evaluating immunotherapies for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). To this point, Dr. Petrylak explains, there have not been many obvious survival benefits from immunotherapy in prostate cancer, except in patients with specific tumor mutations; therefore, sipuleucel-T and pembrolizumab are currently the only FDA-approved immunotherapeutic agents for CRPC. Fortunately, numerous trials are underway that study more effective ways to use immunotherapies for prostate cancer, including trials to improve sipuleucel-T, trials researching vaccine-based immunotherapy regimens, and numerous combination therapy trials. Dr. Petrylak also discusses alternative approaches to immune treatment, including CAR-T cell and BiTE studies in CRPC.
About The 30th Annual International Prostate Cancer Update:
The International Prostate Cancer Update (IPCU), founded in 1990, is a multi-day CME conference focused on prostate cancer treatment updates with expert, international faculty. It is led by expert physicians and is designed for urologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Dr. Petrylak gave this presentation during the 30th iteration of the meeting in January 2020.
For further educational activities from this conference, visit our collection page.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, is currently Director of Genitourinary Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Urology, Co-Leader of Cancer Signaling Networks, and Co-Director of the Signal Transduction Program at Yale University Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a recognized international leader in the urology field. He earned his MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland Ohio. He then went on to complete his Internal Medicine Residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, and his fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Dr. Petrylak has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several SWOG clinical trials for genitourinary cancers. Most notably, he served as the PI for a randomized trial that led to the FDA approval of docetaxel in hormone refractory prostate cancer. He also helped to design and served as PI for the SPARC trial, an international registration trial evaluating satraplatin as a second-line therapy for hormone refractory prostate cancer.
Dr. Petrylak served on the program committees for the annual meetings of the American Urological Association from 2003-2011, and for the American Society of Clinical Oncology from 1995-1997 and 2001-2003. He also has served as a committee member for the Devices and Immunologicals section of the FDA. He has published extensively in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research, and Clinical Cancer Research.
