EHA2022 Congress
Barbara Eichhorst, MD, on CLL: Venetoclax and Obinutuzumab With or Without Ibrutinib vs Chemoimmunotherapy
Barbara Eichhorst, MD, of the German CLL Study Group and the University of Cologne, discusses phase III findings from the GAIA/CLL13 trial, which showed that time-limited treatment with venetoclax, ob...
Anna Sureda, MD, PhD, on Large B-Cell Lymphoma: New Data on Axicabtagene Ciloleucel vs Standard of Care
Anna Sureda, MD, PhD, of the University of Barcelona and the Catalan Institute of Oncology, discusses phase III clinical and patient-reported outcomes from the ZUMA-7 trial, which showed that axicabta...
Harry P. Erba, MD, PhD, on AML: New Data on Quizartinib Plus Standard Chemotherapy
Harry P. Erba, MD, PhD, of Duke Cancer Institute, discusses potentially practice-changing phase III results from the QuANTUM-First trial, which showed that adding quizartinib to standard chemotherapy ...
Expert Point of View: Alexey V. Danilov, MD, PhD
According to Alexey V. Danilov, MD, PhD, Professor and Co-Director, Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center, City of Hope, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) refractory to chemotherapy represents an unmet ...
Epcoritamab Under Study in Difficult-to-Treat Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Subcutaneous epcoritamab, a bispecific antibody, has demonstrated deep and durable responses in a large expansion cohort of patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL), according...
Nicholas J. Short, MD, on ALL: Updated Phase II Study Results on Ponatinib and Blinatumomab
Nicholas J. Short, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses updated results from a phase II study that suggests the chemotherapy-free regimen of simultaneous ponatinib and b...
Study Reports Time-Limited Venetoclax-Based Regimens of Benefit in Front-Line Treatment of CLL
Time-limited venetoclax-based regimens provide deeper and more durable remissions than chemoimmunotherapy combinations in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), regardl...
Michael Dickinson, MBBS, on DLBCL: Phase II Expansion Results on Glofitamab
Michael Dickinson, MBBS, of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and The University of Melbourne, discusses new data, which showed that fixed-duration glofitamab induces du...
Phase III Trial Reports Quizartinib Doubles Overall Survival in FLT3-ITD–Positive AML
A new treatment option has doubled overall survival for a difficult-to-treat subset of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to data presented during the Presidential Symposium at the ...
Magrolimab Plus Azacitidine in TP53-Mutant AML
High-risk patients with TP53-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have limited treatment options and very poor prognoses. Magrolimab is a monoclonal antibody designed to block CD47, an immune macropha...
Triplet Combination Therapy Yields High Response Rates in Patients With FLT3-Mutated AML
FLT3-ITD–mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive disease usually resistant to available treatment options, resulting in high front-line response rates but short response durations and lo...
Targeted Therapy Emavusertib Shows Activity in Patients With MDS or AML With Specific Mutations
Mutations in SF3B1 and U2AF1 can drive overexpression of activated IRAK4—which regulates inflammation and promotes cancer cell growth and survival—and are associated with a poor prognosis for patients...
Allogeneic CAR T-Cell Therapy for Relapsed or Refractory T-Cell Lymphoma
Patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell lymphoma have limited treatment options. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been challenging in these patients because of the state of their...
Ponatinib Plus Blinatumomab for Patients With Philadelphia Chromosome–Positive ALL
The tyrosine kinase inhibitor ponatinib and monoclonal antibody blinatumomab—which targets CD19 on leukemia cells—are highly effective as monotherapies for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positi...
