Leukemia

Significant progress has been made in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia with the addition of options such as the tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib, the monoclonal antibody obinutuzumab, and the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax.

Smoking is linked to mortality and to disease progression among patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Three courses of clofarabine combined with cytarabine may improve relapse-free survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first remission.

Adolescents and young adults with leukemia experienced inferior outcomes compared with children, especially if they were treated outside of a specialized cancer center.

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who discontinue treatment with ibrutinib due to disease progression or transformation had significantly worse survival compared with patients who discontinued therapy because of intolerance.

Despite significant toxicities, idelalisib improved time to progression for patients with treatment-resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Combined miniCHOP and treatment with the fully-human anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody ofatumumab is associated with improved overall survival among elderly patients diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

This video examines frontline treatment options for patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia, including considerations for when chemotherapy or ibrutinib might be more appropriate.

Stem cells that give rise to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) express higher levels of the CD99 cell surface protein-sugar molecule than normal stem cells.

CML patients who have high expression of the T-cell inhibitory receptor (CTLA-4)-ligand CD86 on plasmacytoid dendritic cells have a higher risk of relapsing after discontinuing therapy with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

One of the confounding issues with treating patients with immunotherapy for hematologic diseases is the risk of relapse that can occur during and after treatment.

The addition of clofarabine to standard induction therapy for newly diagnosed acute myeloblastic leukemia reduced the probably of relapse but increased toxicity and had no effect on survival.

Here we critically analyze the role of PET/CT in the early assessment of Hodgkin lymphoma.

Presentation with musculoskeletal manifestations as the only symptom in pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia was significantly associated with diagnostic delay. However, this delay did not affect patient prognosis.

The use of minimal residual disease provided a more objective measure of induction failure in patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia than did morphology.

We spoke with Dr. Mikkael Sekeres on the difficulty of cancer patients meeting eligibility criteria for clinical trials.

A small preliminary study showed that adding pioglitazone to imatinib therapy might have a favorable impact on residual disease in chronic myeloid leukemia, as measured by conversion to molecular response 4.5.

Patients with CML who have higher proportions of natural killer immune cells, and more mature natural killer cells, fare better when discontinuing therapy with imatinib.

This look ahead at hematologic malignancies in 2017 focuses on new agents being studied for the treatment of acute leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Prenatal infection with cytomegalovirus increases the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, indicates a study of newborn blood and pretreatment childhood bone marrow published in the journal Blood.

We review available strategies for screening and risk reduction through chemoprevention or risk-reducing surgery, as well as challenges for management of breast cancer in patients with prior exposure to radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma.

By combining the most recent medical literature and expert opinion, this revised guideline can aid clinicians in the complex decision-making associated with the management of recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma.

In this article we discuss the challenges and new advances in adult ALL, as well as our approach to the treatment of these patients.

Curative therapy, including chest RT for Hodgkin lymphoma, is associated with a definitively increased risk of breast cancer, most often manifesting approximately 20 years after treatment. These breast cancers tend to be more aggressive, with greater frequency of hormone receptor negativity and potential HER2 positivity.

Management strategies for patients with mantle cell lymphoma continue to demonstrate pendulum-like swings between those appropriate for low-grade lymphoma, and those appropriate for very aggressive lymphoma.