The first-line combination of ibrutinib (Imbruvica) and obinutuzumab (Gazyva) was associated with a 77% reduction in the risk for disease progression or death compared with chemoimmunotherapy in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.
Long-term follow-up of acalabrutinib monotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma shows that responses are durable with no new safety signals observed.
The R2 regimen of lenalidomide (Revlimid) plus rituximab (Rituxan) reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 54% versus rituximab alone in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The addition of a CD79b-targeted antibody-drug conjugate to bendamustine and rituximab more than doubled overall survival in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
More than 70% of older patients ineligible for intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia had complete responses to venetoclax combined with hypomethylating agents, preliminary results from clinical trials have shown.
The anti-BCMA CAR T cell therapy bb21217 demonstrated an objective response rate of 83.3%, with a very good partial response or better rate of 75% in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.
An approach using machine learning to analyze genomic and clinical data from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes could replace the gold standard of predicting how long patients may live with the disease.
John P. Leonard, MD, associate dean for clinical research and Richard T. Silver Distinguished Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the key takeaway from the phase III AUGMENT trial, a randomized study of lenalidomide (Revlimid) plus rituximab (Rituxan) (R2) versus rituximab/placebo in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.
Jordan Gauthier, MD, MSc, senior clinical research fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses a study comparing efficacy and toxicity of CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells alone or in combination with ibrutinib in patients with relapsed and/or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.
The CD3 and CD20 bispecific antibody mosunetuzumab demonstrated promising complete remission rates with tolerable toxicity for patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell indolent and aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The triplet regimen of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) plus umbralisib and ublituximab reached a 90% response rate in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Initial findings from the Beat AML study showed that rapid genetic testing in patients with AML was feasible and helpful, and that a precision medicine approach is possible for these patients, who must be treated urgently given the disease’s rapid progression.
Lisocabtagene maraleucel appeared tolerable and induced an 81.3% best overall response rate and 43.8% complete response rate in heavily pretreated, high-risk patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who previously received ibrutinib.
Single-agent ibrutinib continued to demonstrate strong results after 7 years of follow-up in both the frontline and heavily pretreated, relapsed/refractory setting for patients with CLL and SLL.
Two-year maintenance therapy with ixazomib led to a 39% improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who achieved a partial response to induction treatment with a proteasome inhibitor and/or an immunomodulatory agent following autologous stem cell transplant.
The combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax is well tolerated and eradicates minimal residual disease in the marrow after 12 months in 39% of patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The investigational agent zanubrutinib, a next-generation Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is highly active in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.
Checkpoint inhibition showed promise for augmenting or extending response to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in some patients with relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Daratumumab added to bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone induced at least a very good partial response in all patients and a stringent complete response or CR in 63% of patients at the end of consolidation therapy in the run-in phase of an open-label study of transplant-eligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.
Receiving a stem cell transplant for the first time following CD19 CAR T-cell therapy induced a reduction in the risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) recurrence, according to a retrospective analysis of the phase I/II PLAT-02 study.
Farhad Ravandi, MBBS, professor of medicine, department of leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a phase I first-in-human study of AMG 330, an anti-CD33 bispecific T-Cell engager (BiTE) antibody construct, in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.
Tycel J. Phillips, MD, assistant professor, University of Michigan Cancer Center, discusses safety and efficacy findings for acalabrutinib plus bendamustine and rituximab in patients with treatment-naive or relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting.
Concurrent treatment with ibrutinib and the CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy JCAR014 was well tolerated and led to an overall response rate of 83% in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Treatment with luspatercept significantly reduced the need for frequent red blood cell transfusions in nearly 53% of patients with anemia associated with low- to intermediate-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.
Treating younger patients with low-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with 2 fewer frontline cycles of R-CHOP greatly reduced toxicity without sacrificing efficacy, according to findings from the FLYER trial.
Tisagenlecleucel continued to demonstrate durable objective response rates with a median of 19 months of follow-up for patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to updated findings from the phase II JULIET study.
Treatment with the CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel demonstrated sustained rates of relapse-free survival and overall survival at 24 and 18 months for pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Ibrutinib as monotherapy and combined with rituximab significantly improved progression-free survival compared with bendamustine plus rituximab as frontline therapy for older patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Five leaders in the fight against gastrointestinal cancers from academia, the community, and clinic were honored at the 2018 Luminary Awards.
Ahead of the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting, multiple myeloma experts Sundar Jagannath, MBBS, selected the most pivotal abstracts in their field.
