Events

Past Ocular Melanoma Support Alliance Recordings

  • An in-depth overview of the treatment of uveal melanoma with immunotherapies and how long-term responses may be achievable by means of new immunological strategies.

    OMSA welcomed Dr. Richard Carvajal, Director of Experimental Therapeutics and Melanoma Service at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Carvajal is focused on the development of novel therapies for patients with melanoma and other cancers, with the overall objective of controlling and curing these diseases. To achieve this goal, he has used the increasing knowledge of the underlying biology of cancer to rapidly integrate this knowledge, novel therapeutic agents, and efficient trial design in order to improve the outcomes of cancer patients everywhere.

    In this lecture, Dr. Carvajal provides an in-depth overview of the treatment of uveal melanoma with immunotherapies and how long-term responses may be achievable by means of new immunological strategies. Dr. Carvajal speaks directly to the encouraging results found for some very recently investigated agents such as the bispecific tebentafusp, for which a remarkably increased one-year overall survival rate, and similarly increased disease control rate, were observed in early phase studies. The drug, tebentafusp used in the clinical trial is the first ever research study to report an improvement in overall survival for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma!

    Date: November 18, 2021