Hematologic Oncology

Patient selection for maintenance therapy post-allogeneic transplant in myeloid malignancies and thoughts on treatment of FLT3-mutated disease post-transplant with agents such as midostaurin.

Recommendations for treating patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma with an available PI3K inhibitor and managing adverse events from treatment.

The FDA has extended the review period for the new drug application for belumosudil for use in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease to allow for more time to review additional data submitted by the biopharmaceutical company.

Paul G. Richardson, MD; Nina Shah, MD; David Siegel, MD, PhD; and Saad Z. Usmani, MD, provide closing thoughts and key takeaways on multiple myeloma from the 2020 ASH Virtual Meeting and future directions for disease management. 

Insights on approaching the sequencing of BCMA-targeted agents and whether antigen loss is considered an issue in RRMM. 

Examining non-BCMA BiTE (bispecific T-cell engager) approaches to therapy, such as talquetamab and BFCR4350A, for the treatment of RRMM. 

Andre Goy, MD, discusses the efficacy of brexucabtagene autoleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma, as demonstrated in the phase 2 ZUMA-2 trial.

Sattva Neelapu, MD, discusses the management of toxicities associated with CAR T-cell products in patients with lymphoma.

Kira Gritsman, MD, PhD, discusses the significance of the VIALE-A trial examining venetoclax plus azacitidine in older patients with AML and the emergence of minimal residual disease as an important end point in clinical trials.

Experts discuss clinical trial updates in polycythemia vera, including data from RESPONSE, RESPONSE-2, an international observational study of ruxolitinib, and REVEAL.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, highlights signs of disease progression and the utilization of guideline recommendations in the occurrence of a thrombotic event when treating polycythemia vera.

Christopher D'Angelo, MD, discusses emerging CAR T-cell therapies and the challenges with using a 5-drug regimen.

Corey S. Cutler, MD, MPH, FRCPC, discusses the potential clinical implications should belumosudil gain FDA approval in chronic GVHD.

Ibrutinib as a frontline treatment led to sustained efficacy and impressive 4-year progression-free and overall survival rates in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who have TP53 aberrations.

Currently available third-line treatment options for relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma and unique considerations when selecting an appropriate therapy in this setting.

The rationale for treating patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma with allogeneic or autologous transplantation in the current era of novel therapies.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to axicabtagene ciloleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory indolent follicular lymphoma after 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.

The triplet regimen of melphalan flufenamide with dexamethasone and either daratumumab or bortezomib demonstrated encouraging clinical activity and was well tolerated in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Ixazomib-based triplet regimens as induction therapy elicited higher rates of efficacy compared with ixazomib/dexamethasone alone, followed by single-agent ixazomib maintenance, in patients with transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.