Hematologic Oncology

Eunice Wang, MD, chief, Leukemia Service, professor of Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses treatment options for patients with FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia.

Miguel Perales, MD, discusses the impact of the FDA approval of letermovir for patients with CMV prophylaxis following transplantation.

Venetoclax (Venclexta) in combination with a hypomethylating agent induced complete remissions in 61% of patients aged 65 years or older with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia.

Enrico Tiacci, MD, discusses the high potential with the combination of vemurafenib and rituximab in relapsed/refractory patients with hairy cell leukemia.

Gabriel Mannis, MD, assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the FDA approval and potential approval of 2 new agents that will provide a more nuanced treatment approach for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Jamie Koprivnikar, MD, medical oncologist, John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses FLT3 inhibitors in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

The FDA has halted 4 US studies of BPX-501, a novel cellular immunotherapy for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders, after 3 patients developed encephalopathy possibly related to treatment with BPX-501.

Eunice Wang, MD, chief, Leukemia Service, professor of Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the combination of crenolanib and cytarabine/anthracycline chemotherapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Alan Skarbnik, MD, staff physician, department of Bone Marrow Transplant, department of Lymphoma, John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses the preliminary safety and efficacy data for checkpoint inhibition with ipilimumab (Yervoy) and nivolumab (Opdivo) following autologous stem cell transplantation in high-risk hematologic malignancies.