Esmo Open

Immunotherapy has been approved for several indications in Oncology, resulting in an increasing number of physicians that use it to treat their patients. In this podcast, Teresa Amaral, member of the ESMO YOC, interviews Professor John Haanen (Head of the Division of Medical Oncology and Staff Scientist in the Division of Immunology; Professor of Translational Immunotherapy of Cancer at Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands) on the topic: “Questions asked in everyday practice: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors”. Currently, there is no consensus about how long should we treat patients with immunotherapy and the optimal duration might also be different considering the tumor type (e.g. melanoma, NSCLC). In some patients, stopping early due to adverse events doesn’t seem to be detrimental, but the follow-up time is still short to make definitive assumptions. When treating a patient with a previous autoimmune disease, several aspects need to be considered, namely, which type of immunosuppression is the pati