Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs) have a poor prognosis with current treatments. High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (AHCT) is used as a consolidation strategy after achieving clinical remission with first-line therapy, as well as in chemotherapy-sensitive relapse if allogeneic transplant is not an option. CD25 is a targetable protein often highly expressed in PTCLs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an important biomarker for targeted gastric cancer (GC) immunotherapy. However, heterogeneous HER2 overexpression in GC, loss of HER2 expression during therapy, and inability to non-invasively identify HER2 overexpressing tumors impede effective targeting therapies. Improved HER2-specific functional imaging can address these challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPET imaging using radiolabeled immunoconstructs shows promise in cancer detection and in assessing tumor response to therapies. The authors report the first-in-human pilot study evaluating M5A, a humanized anti-carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) monoclonal antibody (mAb), radiolabeled with Cu in patients with CEA-expressing malignancies. The purpose of this pilot study was to identify the preferred patient population for further evaluation of this agent in an expanded trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe hypothesized that functional imaging with Cu-DOTA-trastuzumab PET/CT would predict the response to the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab-emtansine (T-DM1). Ten women with metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer underwent F-FDG PET/CT and Cu-DOTA-trastuzumab PET/CT on days 1 and 2 before treatment with T-DM1. T-DM1-responsive patients had higher uptake than nonresponsive patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-risk relapsed or refractory (R/R) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is associated with poor outcomes after conventional salvage therapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT). Post-AHCT consolidation with brentuximab vedotin (BV) improves progression-free survival (PFS), but with increasing use of BV early in the treatment course, the utility of consolidation is unclear. CD25 is often expressed on Reed-Sternberg cells and in the tumor microenvironment in HL, and we hypothesized that the addition of 90Y-antiCD25 (aTac) to carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan (BEAM) AHCT would be safe and result in a transplantation platform that is agnostic to prior HL-directed therapy.
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