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December 12th 2021, 5:32pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Treatment with acalabrutinib for relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia was effective out to 3 years and demonstrated a progression-free survival benefit over standard of care, according to 3-year follow-up of the ASCEND study.

December 12th 2021, 5:25pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Quality of life improved in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia when treated in the frontline setting with ibrutinib-rituximab and with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab. Improved quality of life was also maintained during continuous therapy with ibrutinib and did not decline over time.

December 12th 2021, 4:58pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Real-world data of children and young adults with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with tisagenlecleucel demonstrated similar efficacy outcomes and a more favorable safety profile compared with the ELIANA trial.

December 12th 2021, 4:50pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Selinexor in combination with daratumumab, bortezomib and dexamethasone demonstrated a manageable safety profile and encouraging efficacy in patients with late- and early-relapsed multiple myeloma.

December 12th 2021, 1:55pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Ponatinib demonstrated high response rates in patients with TKI-resistant, chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia, irrespective of T315I mutation status at baseline, according to findings from the phase 2 OPTIC trial.

December 12th 2021, 1:43pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Depression and anxiety can play a significant role in how patients with cancer view cancer clinical trials, ultimately leading to low enrollment

December 12th 2021, 12:08am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Mortality rates in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and myelodysplastic syndrome who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were higher compared with non-cancer populations who were infected with the virus.

December 11th 2021, 11:53pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The combination of tafasitamab and lenalidomide prolonged median overall survival compared with other standard options for autologous stem cell transplant-ineligible patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

December 11th 2021, 11:04pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Treatment with ibrutinib plus loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl resulted in high objective and complete response rates and an acceptable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to findings from an interim analysis of the phase 1/2 LOTIS-3 trial (NCT03684694) that were presented at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

December 11th 2021, 11:04pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Sattva S. Neelapu, MD, discusses the long-term follow-up analysis of the phase 2 ZUMA-5 trial with axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 

December 11th 2021, 10:50pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

An observational single-center study suggests that mRNA-1273 SARS CoV-2 vaccination induces a strong antibody response in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, according to observational results presented during the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting.

December 11th 2021, 10:47pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Minimal residual disease–negativity rates were significantly higher after utilizing daratumumab plus bortezomib, thalidomide, and dexamethasone (VTd) vs VTd alone in patients with newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible multiple myeloma, according to findings from the phase 3 CASSIOPEIA study that were presented at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

December 11th 2021, 10:41pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The addition of subcutaneous daratumumab to standard-of-care bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone (D-VCd) continued to elicit stronger hematologic and organ responses vs VCd alone in patients with newly diagnosed light chain amyloidosis.

December 11th 2021, 10:05pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The addition of isatuximab to lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (RVd) demonstrated superior minimal residual disease rates vs RVd alone when used as induction treatment in patients with transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

December 11th 2021, 10:05pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Tisagenlecleucel produced a high overall response rate and complete response rate in adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma who had received 2 or more prior lines of therapy, according to results from an extended follow-up analysis of patients with at least 12 months of follow-up of the phase 2 ELARA trial.

December 11th 2021, 9:45pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Axicabtagene ciloleucel induced high response rates and improved survival in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma or marginal zone lymphoma, according to updated data from the phase 2 ZUMA-5 trial.

December 11th 2021, 9:29pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Daratumumab plus talquetamab demonstrated a tolerable safety profile and induced responses in more than 75% of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma across dose levels.

December 11th 2021, 8:50pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Parsaclisib demonstrated early and long-lasting responses in patients with BTK-naïve, relapsed/refractory marginal zone lymphoma, according to findings from the phase 2 CITADEL-204 trial.

December 11th 2021, 8:35pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The use of ibrutinib plus venetoclax in the first-line setting for patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia continues to provide deep, durable responses, according to updated results from the MRD cohort of the phase 2 CAPTIVATE trial.

December 11th 2021, 8:00pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The combination of obinutuzumab and venetoclax (GVe), as well as GVe plus ibrutinib demonstrated superior rates of undetectable minimal residual disease compared with chemoimmunotherapy in fit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to findings from the phase 3 GAIA (CLL13) trial.