Hematologic Oncology

Administration of the selective ALK-2 inhibitor zilurgisertib alone or in combination with ruxolitinib was safe, well tolerated, and showed preliminary signals of clinical activity in patients with primary or secondary myelofibrosis and disease-related anemia.

Dr Phillips discusses the FDA approval of epcoritamab in patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL key efficacy and safety findings from the EPCORE NHL-1 trial, and the potential future of bispecific antibodies in this setting.

OMS906, a MASP-3 inhibitor, normalized hemoglobin, lactate dehydrogenase, and reticulocytes levels in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Gilteritinib led to a 48% reduction in disease recurrence for patients with FLT3-ITD–mutant acute myeloid leukemia and detectable minimal residual disease pre and post hematopoietic stem cell transplant compared with placebo, highlighting a role for treatment in this subgroup of patients.

The BET inhibitor BMS-986158 combined with ruxolitinib led to robust spleen volume reduction with acceptable tolerability in patients with myelofibrosis. When the BET inhibitor was combined with fedratinib, the safety profile was also determined to be manageable.

The novel SYK inhibitor cevidoplenib dosed at 400 mg twice per day led to robust platelet responses in patients with persistent or chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia who did not respond or relapsed after at least 1 prior therapy.

Mark J. Levis, MD, PhD, discusses data from the phase 3 BMT CTN 1506/MORPHO trial of gilteritinib as maintenance therapy following allogeneic stem cell transplant in patients With FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Treatment with ponatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy led to an improvement in minimal residual disease-negative complete remission rate compared with imatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Harry Gill, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, discusses the investigation of an all-oral combination of arsenic trioxide, all trans retinoic acid, and ascorbic acid in patients with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Elias Jabbour, MD, discusses efficacy data from the phase 3 PhALLCON trial of ponatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy vs imatinib plus reduced-intensity chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment with the combination of epcoritamab, rituximab, and lenalidomide led to responses and durable remissions in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

OncLive® will be LIVE with OncLive® News Network: On Location at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. Each day, we will broadcast a series of interviews with top thought leaders, to learn their thoughts and reactions to data presented across hematologic oncology during the conference.

Nivolumab in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (AVD) resulted in prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) compared with brentuximab vedotin plus AVD in patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Claire Roddie, MD, discusses the patient population and topline efficacy findings from the phase 1/2 FELIX trial, which is investigating the CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy obecabtagene autoleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel elicited high rates of complete remission with minimal residual disease negativity in real-world patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received the CAR T-cell product as post-approval, standard-of-care treatment, according to data from a retrospective study.

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, discusses key efficacy and safety findings from the phase 3 COMMANDS trial (NCT03682536) of luspatercept-aamt (Reblozyl) vs epoetin alfa in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Amer Zeidan, MBBS, discusses topline efficacy findings from the IMerge trial of imetelstat in patients with transfusion-dependent lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Obecabtagene autoleucel was associated with a 76% complete response (CR)/CR with incomplete count recovery rate in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment with the first-in-class direct and competitive telomerase inhibitor imetelstat resulted in statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy in patients with heavily transfusion dependent, non-del(5q) lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome that is relapsed or refractory to erythropoiesis stimulating agents, according to findings from the phase 3 IMerge trial.

Experts in the field share the abstracts they found to be the most practice changing at this year’s ASCO Annual meeting.

Dr Andreeff discusses the evaluation of uproleselan for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia, the rationale for targeting E-selectin in patients with this disease, how uproleselan could amplify the effects of chemotherapy in the treatment of these patients. 

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has approved quizartinib in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and standard cytarabine consolidation and as maintenance monotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia whose tumors harbor FLT3-ITD mutations.

Expert hematologist-oncologist Grzegorz Nowakowski, MD, reviews data from the 5-year analysis of the L-MIND study combining tafasitamab with lenalidomide in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Voruciclib monotherapy and in combination with venetoclax demonstrated clinical activity and was well tolerated with no significant myelosuppression in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia or B-cell malignancies, according to initial data from a phase 1 trial.

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