“Back to the Future”: Developments in Immunotherapy with David Gandara, MD

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with David Gandara, MD, about how ctDNA and CAR-T cell therapies are transforming precision medicine, the importance of patient reported outcomes and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 0:14 •    About Gandara 0:19 •    The interview 1:02 •    Can you tell me a little more about what you are working on now? 1:25 •    How did you get engaged with the community in Hawaii?  6:30 •    What do you think is going to happen with ctDNA moving forward? 8:29 •    Can you utilize ctDNA and minimal residual disease information to determine how long patients need to be on adjuvant therapy?  11:42 •    How did you get into the ctDNA space?  15:06 •    How do you see AI transforming health care beyond providing patients with more information and taking more ownership of their health?  18:28 •    Can you tell us more about how a second opinion clinic works? How did this type of clinic develop and become part of what you do?  23:17 •    What are some of your predictions as to what will happen in oncology care over the next ten to twenty years?  29:00 •    If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want listeners to take away? 37:30 •    How to contact Gandara 38:47 •    Thanks for listening 39:10 David Gandara, MD, is a clinician-scientist and lung cancer specialist internationally recognized for his expertise in thoracic cancers, cancer drug development and biomarker development.

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Disclosures: Jain reports no relevant financial disclosures. Gandara reports institutional research grants from Astex, Amgen and Genentech; institutional consulting for AstraZenica, Exact Sciences, Genentech, Guardant Health, IO Biotech and Oncohost; consulting for Adagene, Henlius USA, Foundation Medicine and Sanofi; serves on the advisory board of Abbvie, Janssen, Merck, Mirati, Regeneron and Revolution Medicine.