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December 7th 2020, 9:55pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 — Findings from the MEDALIST trial demonstrated encouraging clinical efficacy, as well as a tolerable safety profile, with luspatercept among patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and myeloproliferative neoplasms with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis.

December 7th 2020, 9:04pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 - Survival rates of adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who experience relapse following hematopoietic cell transplantation has considerably improved within the past few years, possibly due to the increased use of immunotherapy agents.

December 7th 2020, 8:33pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 - The addition of ixazomib to lenalidomide and dexamethasone resulted in a clinically meaningful 13.5-month improvement in the median progression-free survival of elderly patients with transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, although it did not reach statistical significance.

December 7th 2020, 7:40pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Daratumumab plus lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone followed by daratumumab and lenalidomide maintenance showed a statistically significant improvement in response rates and depth of responses when compared to RVd followed by lenalidomide maintenance for patients with transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

December 7th 2020, 7:29pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 — The combination of ublituximab and umbralisib, 2 novel compounds targeting CD20 and PI3Kδ, respectively, has shown synergistic activity in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared with standard of care chemoimmunotherapy irrespective of prior treatment.

December 7th 2020, 4:16pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

What started out as a journey to better understand regulatory T cells has now led to an intriguing approach with an investigational cell therapy designed to prevent the risk of graft-versus-host disease and to improve relapse-free survival rates in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

December 7th 2020, 4:01pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 — The T-cell–engaging bispecific antibody glofitamab elicited a high rate of complete responses, when given in a step-up dosing schedule, in patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

December 7th 2020, 3:34pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 7, 2020 - The addition of subcutaneous daratumumab to pomalidomide and dexamethasone significantly reduced the risk of progression or death by 37%, compared with pomalidomide and dexamethasone, in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who had received ≥1 prior line of therapy.

December 7th 2020, 2:04am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 - Self-reported black race was found to be the most important factor associated with poor survival in patients under 60 years old with acute myeloid leukemia.

December 6th 2020, 11:57pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Treatment with the BCMA-targeted CAR T-cell therapy idecabtagene vicleucel was found to yield clinically meaningful improvements in the quality-of-life of triple-class exposed patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 6th 2020, 11:28pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

CC-92480, a novel oral cereblon E3 ligase modulator agent, plus dexamethasone demonstrated immunomodulatory activity across all dose levels examined in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to data from the first portion of the ongoing phase 1 CC-92480-MM-001 trial presented during the 2020 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

December 6th 2020, 10:16pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel was found to elicit clinically meaningful improvements in health-related quality of life in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, and this benefit may become even more pronounced as responses to treatment deepen over time, according to data from the CARTITUDE-1 study presented during the 2020 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

December 6th 2020, 8:46pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Sabatolimab demonstrated comparable pharmacokinetic activity at doses of 200 mg every 2 weeks and 800 mg every 4 weeks in combination with hypomethylating agents in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

December 6th 2020, 7:48pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — The off-the-shelf DuoBody® IgG4 PAA binding antibody talquetamab has elicited a high response rate with a tolerable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 6th 2020, 7:24pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — REGN5458, a BCMA- and CD3-targeted bispecific monoclonal antibody, demonstrated early, deep, and durable responses with acceptable safety and tolerability in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 6th 2020, 7:07pm

December 6, 2020 — TTI-622, an investigational CD47 inhibitor, showed preliminary signs of clinical activity with a manageable safety profile among patients with relapsed/refractory lymphoma.

December 6th 2020, 5:17pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — The investigational TKI asciminib was found to be a safe and effective treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia without any alternatives in clinical practice, particularly those with prior TKI intolerance and those who achieved prior complete cytogenetic response.

December 6th 2020, 4:49pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — The antibody-drug conjugate belantamab mafodotin continued to showcase efficacy and tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, inducing durable responses even in those who had previously received 7 or more lines of therapy.

December 6th 2020, 4:39pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — The BCMA and CD3 bispecific T-cell redirecting antibody TNB-383B elicited significant responses when administered at a higher dose level and was well tolerated at all doses examined in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 6th 2020, 4:22pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

December 6, 2020 — Patients with hematologic malignancies are at increased risk for significant morbidity and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019, and the risk of death appeared to be greatest in those who were older, had more severe infection, a poorer prognosis, or who decided to forego intensive treatment