Lymphoma

Patients with mantle cell lymphoma who undergo a shorter diagnosis to treatment interval also have worse clinical and disease characteristics on average than those with a longer interval.

The addition of pembrolizumab to tisagenlecleucel also appears to yield inconclusive efficacy signals and did not augment cellular expansion among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a phase 1b study.

Investigators of the phase 1/2 EPCORE NHL-1 trial plan to discuss their findings with global regulatory authorities to determine the next steps for epcoritamab in the treatment of relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

Treatment with liso-cel produces low rates of severe cytokine release syndrome in relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma in the phase 1 TRANSCEND NHL 001 trial and the phase 2 TRANSCEND FL trial.

The education of patients on identifying and reporting adverse effects is a critical part of effective toxicity management.

One role of a physician assistant is to help patients understand their treatment and the results they’re presented with.

Combining brentuximab vedotin with chemotherapy appears to significantly reduce the risk of death compared with chemotherapy alone among patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.

Results from the phase 1/2 NP30179 analyzing glofitamab in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and large B-cell lymphoma are reported to have helped lead to its approval.

Adverse effect management is a concern for clinicians when administering follicular lymphoma treatment, and the use of targeted pathways may help mitigate them.

The non-covalent BTK inhibitor shows an encouraging duration of response in patients with heavily pretreated, relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma, according to data.

Overall survival rates at 12 and 36 months appear to favor the addition of acalabrutinib to bendamustine and rituximab in the treatment of those with mantle cell lymphoma in a phase 1b trial.

Replacing vincristine with polatuzumab vedotin in R-mini-CHOP, although it hasn’t increased grade 3/4 hematologic toxicity, may increase gastrointestinal adverse effects in a cohort of frail patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The responses to epcoritamab plus rituximab/lenalidomide for patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma appear comparable between those with and without disease progression within 24 months of first-line chemotherapy in the phase 1/2 EPCORE NHL-2 trial.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel produces a higher median overall survival vs high-dose therapy plus autologous stem cell transplant among patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma in the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial.

SWOG S1826 is an open-label trial that enrolled patients with newly diagnosed stage III or IV classical Hodgkin lymphoma who were randomly assigned to receive either nivolumab/AVD or brentuximab vedotin/AVD.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel may prolong survival and improve outcomes vs standard-of-care therapy in older patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Andre H. Goy, MD, and Andrew Ip, MD, offer closing remarks on unmet needs in the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Experts on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma discuss the factors that inform their treatment choices in the second line.

Investigators plan to initiate a phase 2 study evaluating AFM13 plus AB-101 in patients with relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma in the first half of 2024.

Patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma can now receive epcoritamab following the FDA’s approval of the agent.

Rituximab plus bendamustine and cytarabine continues to show clinical efficacy and favorable outcomes in a population of elderly patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Experts overview the ZUMA-7 trial of axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel) in patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL, and discuss how tumor volume correlates with clinical outcomes.

An overview of the L-MIND trial of tafasitamab plus lenalidomide in patients with relapsed/refractory disease.

Investigators are expected to share initial safety and efficacy data from a phase 1/2 trial assessing IMPT-314 as a treatment for aggressive B-cell lymphoma in the second half of 2023.

Expert oncologists discuss the evolving treatment landscape for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).