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Podcast: PeerView Heart, Lung & Blood CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
Episode: Zev A. Wainberg, MD - Targeting TIGIT to Extend Immunotherapy Benefits to More Cancer Patients: A Strategy to Amplify Immune Response and Enhance or Restore Antitumor Activity
Description: Go online to PeerView.com/EBJ860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. The discovery of immune checkpoints that regulate immune responses transformed cancer care, and the impact that the new class of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has had in oncology cannot be understated. A proportion of patients achieve remarkable and durable responses and improved overall survival with use of the current ICIs. However, there are a number of limitations associated with the current immunotherapies, patient outcomes are still suboptimal, and new options are needed to maximize the potential of cancer...