Dr. Marijo Bilusic, MD, PhD, discusses the story of immunotherapy in prostate cancer, from the initial revolutionary breakthrough with sipuleucel-T (Provenge), through the research struggles with immune checkpoint inhibitors, to emerging strategies, such as vaccines, for converting immunologically “cold” tumors to immunologically “hot” tumors.
Dr. Bilusic is a medical oncologist and GU Site Disease Group Lead, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Florida. Prior to joining starting at Sylvester in 2021, he was an associate research physician at the NCI Medical Oncology Service/Genitourinary Malignancy Branch. Also at the NCI, he served as program director of the NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship Program.
Olaparib monotherapy shows benefit in HRR+ biochemically recurrent prostate cancer
August 22nd 2024“This study is a breakthrough because it is the first trial to show that a non-hormonal drug can induce durable complete remissions in recurrent prostate cancer patients with BRCA2 mutations—one of the most aggressive subtypes of this disease,” says Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, MD.