Latest Conference Articles

December 10th 2019, 5:43pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Patrick Brown, MD, chair of NCCN Guidelines for Adult and Pediatric ALL, and director of the Pediatric Leukemia Program at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the results of the randomized phase III Children’s Oncology Group Study AALL1331 trial of blinatumomab (Blincyto) versus chemotherapy as post-reinduction therapy in high- and intermediate-risk children and young adults with B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first relapse.

December 10th 2019, 5:32pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Adding daratumumab (Darzalex) to carfilzomib (Kyprolis) and dexamethasone reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 37% compared with carfilzomib and dexamethasone alone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 10th 2019, 5:31pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Maintenance treatment with CC-486, an oral formulation of azacitidine, extended median overall survival by 9.9 months compared with placebo for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first remission.

December 10th 2019, 5:31pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Blinatumomab (Blincyto) as post-reinduction consolidation therapy before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation improved disease-free survival and overall survival by approximately 20% compared with intensive chemotherapy in pediatric and adolescent and young adult patients with high- or intermediate-risk of first relapse of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

December 10th 2019, 4:50am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Enasidenib significantly improves complete remission and overall response when combined with azacitidine compared with azacitidine alone in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia with IDH2 mutations.

December 10th 2019, 4:02am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Treatment with the anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy KTE-X19 elicited a complete remission rate of 67% and an objective response rate of 93% for patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

December 10th 2019, 2:08am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia had ongoing benefits 42 months after starting treatment with the BTK inhibitor acalabrutinib.

December 10th 2019, 1:18am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

CPI-0610 showed promising spleen volume responses and a meaningful reduction in total symptom score as monotherapy and in combination with ruxolitinib (Jakafi) for patients with refractory or intolerant advanced myelofibrosis.

December 10th 2019, 12:59am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Vecabrutinib, a reversible, noncovalent Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, exhibited evidence of clinical activity in adults with B-cell malignancies without producing any grade ≥3 treatment-related adverse events.

December 9th 2019, 11:59pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Deepu Madduri, MD, assistant professor, medicine, hematology and medical oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the results of the phase Ib/II CARTITUDE-1 trial of the BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy JNJ-4528 in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

December 9th 2019, 10:36pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Benjamin L. Lampson, MD, PhD, medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses preliminary safety and efficacy results from a phase II study of acalabrutinib (Calquence), venetoclax (Venclexta), and obinutuzumab (Gazyva) in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

December 9th 2019, 10:02pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel showed promising clinical activity and manageable toxicity in heavily pretreated patients with high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, all of whom had progressed on ibrutinib.

December 9th 2019, 7:57pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Patients with relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma who received a higher initial dose of duvelisib at 75 mg BID had a higher overall response rate of 62% than those who received 25 mg BID.

December 9th 2019, 7:25pm

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The BTK inhibitor zanubrutinib continues to demonstrate high overall response rates for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, regardless of the presence of high-risk cytogenetics.

December 9th 2019, 4:49am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

More than half of patients with heavily pretreated B-cell malignancies responded to the noncovalent BTK inhibitor LOXO-305, including those with resistance or intolerance to other BTK inhibitors or BCL2 inhibitors.

December 9th 2019, 4:40am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Steroid use while cytokine release syndrome and neurologic toxicities are at grade 1, instead of waiting until grade 3, reduces the rate of CAR T-cell treatment–related CRS and neurologic events.

December 9th 2019, 3:53am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The combination of lenalidomide (Revlimid) and obinutuzumab (Gazyva) elicited a 100% overall response rate in patients with relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma that was refractory to rituximab (Rituxan).

December 9th 2019, 2:18am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

John F. Seymour, MBBS, PhD, clinical hematologist, associate director of Clinical Research, Peter MacCallum Centre, director of the integrated Haematology Department of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, discusses the 4-year update of the phase III MURANO trial in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

December 9th 2019, 2:17am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, clinical director, Center for Lymphoma, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the pivotal safety and efficacy results from phase I TRANSCEND NHL 001 trial of lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel) in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

December 9th 2019, 2:12am

ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

The combination of lenalidomide (Revlimid) and rituximab showed a 34% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with rituximab plus placebo in patients ≥70 years old with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, although it was not found to be statistically significant.