Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of patients with CD30-positive cutaneous T-cell lymphoma after at least 1 prior systemic therapy.

Celgene has announced plans to acquire Juno Therapeutics, maker of the CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel (JCAR017), for $87 per share, totaling approximately $9 billion.

Charalambos (Babis) Andreadis, MD, MSCE, associate professor of clinical medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in lymphoma.

Babis Andreadis, MD, discusses the successes seen with CAR T-cell development in the past year and the use of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with NHL.

The FDA has granted a priority review to the CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel for adult patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL who are ineligible for or relapse after autologous stem cell transplant.

The combination of the CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel and the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab was highly active with a manageable safety profile in patients with refractory DLBCL enrolled in the phase I/II ZUMA-6 trial.