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Adrian Wiestner, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Services, discusses findings from the phase III HELIOS trial, which explored the addition of ibrutinib to bendamustine and rituximab for patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
A chemotherapy-free combination of the anti-CD20 antibody ublituximab, ibrutinib, and the PI3K delta inhibitor TGR-1202 demonstrated robust clinical activity in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The PI3Kδ inhibitor INCB040093 alone or in combination with the JAK1 inhibitor INCB039110 showed early promise in relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Susan M. O'Brien, MD, associate director, Clinical Science Medical Director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Irvine, discusses the use of ibrutinib and idealisib in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Nivolumab continued to show high activity and a good safety profile after more than a year of follow-up in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoid malignancies or those with classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
The MATRIX regimen, comprised of a methotrexate/cytarabine backbone plus thiotepa and rituximab, improved outcomes in patients with primary CNS lymphoma.
TAK-659, an inhibitor of spleen tyrosine kinase, showed early signs of antitumor activity in patients with lymphoma, with two expansion arms planned for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Thomas S. Uldrick, MD, staff clinician, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research at the National Institutes of Health, discusses long-term data from a study examining rituximab plus liposomal doxorubicin in HIV-infected patients with Kaposi sarcoma (KS) herpes virus-associated multicentric Castleman disease.
Interim PET-CT scanning was successfully used to adapt treatment regimens in patients with advanced classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Adrian Wiestner, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Services discusses the findings of the RESONATE II trial, which looked at chlorambucil versus ibrutinib as first-line therapy in patients older than 65 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
