Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Mitchell Smith, MD, discusses advancements in the field of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Peter Martin, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, predicts future treatment approaches in the field of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T-cell therapies continue to demonstrate promising signs of efficacy for patients with hematologic malignancies, including those with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The FDA approved obinutuzumab (Gazyva) plus bendamustine followed by obinutuzumab alone for the treatment of patients with follicular lymphoma who were not responsive to a rituximab regimen, or who relapsed after rituximab-based therapy.

The anti-CD19 agent blinatumomab (Blincyto) induced a response rate of 69% in patients with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Entospletinib (GS-9973) has shown early promise as a treatment for pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Christopher A. Yasenchak, MD, associate chair of Hematology Research, Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center/US Oncology Research, discusses results of a study examining the addition of brentuximab vedotin to R-CHOP for the treatment of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Treatment with allogeneic anti–CD19 chimeric antigen receptor–modified T cell therapy induced complete remissions in 30% of patients with advanced progressive B-cell malignancies without causing graft-versus-host disease.

Kathryn Kolibaba, MD, discusses the significance of the PYRAMID and other studies, and how she hopes the treatment paradigm for diffuse large b-cell lymphoma will evolve in the future.

John P. Leonard, MD, discusses the potential for lenalidomide, idelalisib, and ibrutinib in follicular lymphoma, possible combination therapies, and challenges that remain in the treatment of the disease.

Frederick Locke, MD, a medical oncologist in the Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant at Moffitt Cancer Center, and an assistant professor of Oncology at the University of South Florida, discusses KTE-C19 for the treatment of refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

Frederick Locke, MD, discusses the potential for KTE-C19 in non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Adding brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) to frontline R-CHOP produced a greater than 80% response rate—including complete remissions in three-fourths of patients—as a treatment for CD30+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Jeff Sharman, MD, director of Research with Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, medical director of Hematology Research for The US Oncology Network, discusses clinical activity of entospletinib in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who were previously treated with a B-cell receptor pathway signaling inhibitor.

Daniel R. Vlock, MD, founder and CEO, Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, discusses a phase I/II study of an anti–CD20 interleukin-2 immunocytokine in patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).