Hematologic Oncology

After answering her calling for hematology oncology, Margaret A. Shipp, MD, shook up lymphoma research by exploiting the PD-1 pathway to evade immune detection and testing checkpoint inhibitors across this malignancy, among several other achievements.

Here is your snapshot of all therapeutic options greenlit by the FDA in December 2024 spanning tumor types.

Beyond a lengthy list of accomplishments across the leukemia spectrum of treatment, Garcia-Manero holds the importance of mentorship as incredibly dear to his heart and a way to pass the torch forward in cancer care.

With a focus on closing gaps in cancer care for underserved populations, Joseph A. Sparano, MD, FACP, always strives to put patients first—a quality that has become a hallmark of his research and career in oncology.

The addition of pegcrisantaspase to venetoclax may overcome resistance to prior BCL-2 inhibitor–based regimens for patients with relapsed/refractory AML.

Uproleselan plus chemotherapy did not improved overall survival in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

Olverembatinib demonstrated preliminary efficacy and was well tolerated in patients with heavily pretreated chronic-phase myeloid leukemia.

The FDA granted fast track designation to NX-5948 for Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia that is relapsed/refractory to at least 2 lines of therapy.

The FDA has approved remestemcel-L-rknd for pediatric steroid-refractory acute graft-vs-host disease.

Orca-Q led to low rates of graft-vs-host disease and non-relapse mortality in high-risk hematologic malignancies.

Treatment with a 100-mg dose of bezuclastinib had a favorable safety and tolerability profile in patients with non-advanced systemic mastocytosis.

Iopofosine I 131 demonstrated durable efficacy and tolerability in heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

Select safety measures have improved the prevention and management of risks associated with ponatinib in ALL and CML over 10 years.

IO-202 plus azacitidine elicited an ORR of 66.7% in patients with HMA-naive chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

NFKB1 rs230511 reduces inflammation and amplifies responses to ropeginterferon alfa-2b in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.

Tafasitamab plus lenalidomide and rituximab improved median PFS vs lenalidomide and rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

BGB-16673 monotherapy showed early activity and a tolerable safety profile in relapsed/refractory Waldenström macroglobulinemia, CLL, and SLL.

Frontline treatment with zanubrutinib continued to improve PFS vs bendamustine plus rituximab at 5 years in patients with treatment-naive CLL/SLL.

Second-generation BTK inhibitors were associated with a significantly lower incidence of cardiac adverse effects in B-cell malignancies.

The addition of uproleselan to chemotherapy did not meet the primary OS end point of a phase 3 trial evaluating patients with relapsed/refractory AML.

Outpatient lymphodepletion prior to brexu-cel was safe and generated comparable 60-day non-relapse mortality vs inpatient administration in B-ALL and MCL.

Patients with treatment naive DLBCL experienced high response rates when treated with zilovertamab vedotin plus R-CHP and a RP2D dose of the agent was selected.

Liso-cel demonstrated safety and efficacy outcomes that were comparable to those in the pivotal TRANSFORM and PILOT trials in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Social determinants of health have a more pronounced effect on mortality among patients with AML who did not receive transplant vs those who did.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel demonstrated similar efficacy across age groups of patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Treatment with asciminib results in superior efficacy and safety vs investigator-selected TKIs in CML according to updated 96-week data from ASC4FIRST.

Olverembatinib showed potential in patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia with prior exposure to first-line second-generation TKIs.

Data from a retrospective analysis showcase the real-world effectiveness of tafasitamab for relapsed/refractory DLBCL in the United States.

FS118, an investigational LAG-3/PD-L1 bispecific antibody, demonstrated an encouraging objective response rate in the relapsed/refractory DLBCL setting.

Revumenib plus decitabine/cedazuridine and venetoclax produced responses in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.