2023
Changes in Perception of Cure Among Patients With Genitourinary Cancers Initiating Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Longitudinal Study
Bergerot C, Philip E, Govindarajan A, Castro D, Malhotra J, Bergerot P, Salgia S, Salgia M, Salgia N, Hsu J, Meza L, Zengin Z, Liu S, Chehrazi-Raffle A, Tripathi A, Dorff T, Pal S. Changes in Perception of Cure Among Patients With Genitourinary Cancers Initiating Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Longitudinal Study. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer 2023, 21: 626-630.e3. PMID: 37391301, PMCID: PMC11225089, DOI: 10.1016/j.clgc.2023.05.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPerception of cureExpectation of cureGenitourinary cancersImmune checkpoint inhibitor therapyCheckpoint inhibitor therapyImmune checkpoint inhibitorsProportion of patientsSevere side effectsLongitudinal studyChi-square testICI therapyCheckpoint inhibitorsInhibitor therapyECOG scoreGeneral linear modelingPatients' perceptionsMetastatic cancerPatientsSide effectsDecreased anxietyTherapyCancerCureLower ratesAnxiety ScaleUltrasensitive Circulating Tumor DNA Pilot Study Distinguishes Complete Response and Partial Response With Immunotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Chehrazi-Raffle A, Muddasani R, Dizman N, Hsu J, Meza L, Zengin Z, Malhotra J, Chawla N, Dorff T, Contente-Cuomo T, Dinwiddie D, McDonald B, McDaniel T, Trent J, Baehner F, Murtaza M, Pal S. Ultrasensitive Circulating Tumor DNA Pilot Study Distinguishes Complete Response and Partial Response With Immunotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JCO Precision Oncology 2023, 7: e2200543. PMID: 37027813, PMCID: PMC10309555, DOI: 10.1200/po.22.00543.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCarcinoma, Renal CellCirculating Tumor DNAHumansImmunotherapyKidney NeoplasmsNivolumabPilot ProjectsConceptsMetastatic renal cell carcinomaPartial responseComplete responseVariant allele fractionRenal cell carcinomaCell carcinomaCtDNA analysisImmune checkpoint inhibitor therapyCheckpoint inhibitor therapyDiscontinuation of immunotherapyDepth of responseICI therapyNivolumab monotherapyEligible patientsRadiographic progressionInhibitor therapyPeripheral bloodDisease progressionCtDNA assessmentSubsequent progressionPatientsMultiple indicationsSingle time pointPatient-specific mutationsSecondary objective
2022
Characterization of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Experiencing Complete Response to First-line Therapies: Results From the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium
Takemura K, Navani V, Ernst M, Wells J, Meza L, Pal S, Lee J, Li H, Agarwal N, Alva A, Hansen A, Basappa N, Szabados B, Powles T, Tran B, Hocking C, Beuselinck B, Yuasa T, Choueiri T, Heng D. Characterization of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Experiencing Complete Response to First-line Therapies: Results From the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium. Journal Of Urology 2022, 209: 701-709. PMID: 36573926, DOI: 10.1097/ju.0000000000003132.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTKI cohortInternational Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database ConsortiumComplete responseFirst-line therapyOverall survivalCombination therapyTKI armsTyrosine kinase inhibitor therapyMetastatic renal cell carcinomaNon-clear cell histologyMultiple sites of metastasesTyrosine kinase inhibitor monotherapyBaseline characteristics of patientsResponse rateComplete response rateKinase inhibitor therapyOverall survival benefitSite of metastasisFavorable overall survivalRenal cell carcinomaAdverse clinicopathological featuresCharacterization of patientsReal-world patientsCharacteristics of patientsClinical trial populations
2021
Learning from BISCAY: The future of biomarker-based trial design in bladder cancer
Meza L, Salgia N, Patel K, Pal S. Learning from BISCAY: The future of biomarker-based trial design in bladder cancer. Cancer Cell 2021, 39: 910-912. PMID: 34256907, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2021.06.011.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersMeSH KeywordsBiomarkersCarcinoma, Transitional CellForecastingHumansImmunotherapyUrinary Bladder NeoplasmsChemoimmunotherapy in urothelial cancer: concurrent or sequential?
Zengin Z, Meza L, Pal S, Grivas P. Chemoimmunotherapy in urothelial cancer: concurrent or sequential? The Lancet Oncology 2021, 22: 894-896. PMID: 34051179, DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(21)00284-9.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters