Hematologic Oncology

Vinod A. Pullarkat, MD, clinical professor of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and hematologist/oncologist, City of Hope, discusses treatment strategies in transplant ineligible acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Genomic profiling provides evidence of measurable residual disease in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and may help guide the choice of a preconditioning regimen in those who are at risk of relapse after undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Jorge J. Castillo, MD, clinical director, Bing Center for Waldenström Macroglobulinemia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, highlights ongoing research with emerging treatment approaches in Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

David S. Snyder, MD, associate chair and professor, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and hematologist/oncologist, City of Hope, discusses mainstays of treatment in polycythemia vera (PV).

Jorge Cortes, MD, discusses frontline advances, discontinuation, and remaining challenges in the chronic myeloid leukemia paradigm.

Nelson Jen An Chao, MD, professor of medicine, Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Cancer Research Professor, chief, Division of Cell Therapy in the Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses minimal residual disease (MRD) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

OncLive interviewed experts at the State of the Science Summits in July 2019 on highly anticipated clinical trial results across tumor types.

With the recent publication of an inaugural set of guidelines for treatment of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network seeks to introduce standards to a branch of care long dominated by clinical trial protocols.

David J. Straus, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the 3-year follow-up results of the ECHELON-1 study, which examines brentuximab vedotin with chemotherapy for stage III/IV classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Sattva Neelapu, MD, discusses the use of CAR T-cell therapy in the third-line setting for patients with large B-cell lymphoma.

Kleber Y. Fertrin, MD, PhD, assistant professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, and hematology oncologist, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the potential of fostamatinib (Tavalisse) in the treatment of patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).