Lymphoma

The FDA granted orphan drug designation to umbralisib based on results from the phase IIb UNITY-NHL trial cohort of patients with follicular lymphoma who have received at least 2 prior lines of therapy, including an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody and an alkylating agent.

At the 37th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, Valerie Lemaine, MD, MPH, FRCSC, told physicians what they need should know and discuss with their patients about BIA-ALCL.

Kura Oncology’s leading drug candidate, tipifarnib, was granted fast track designation by the FDA to treat adults of T-cell lymphomas.

The new guidelines provide additional guidance for healthcare providers to better recognize and diagnose breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).

The FDA granted priority review to a biologics license application for tafasitamab in combination with lenalidomide for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

This recommendation was based on an analysis of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma undergoing auto-HCT in which the addition of rituximab to the BEAM conditioning regimen had no impact on transplantation outcomes.

The submission was primarily based on updated phase II efficacy and safety data for tazemetostat for patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma who have received at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company announced that the FDA granted a priority review to its BLA for liso-cel to treat patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Researchers found that targeting BCL-W in Burkitt lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma may not offer wide-ranging therapeutic benefit.

Patients with either relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with CAR NK cells had a response without the development of cytokine release syndrome, neurotoxicity, or graft-versus-host disease.

Calibr received approval from the FDA to move forward with an investigational new drug to treat relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies with a switchable CAR T-cell therapy.

Researchers indicated that a lack of understanding of the mechanism and efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors is the major barrier for prescription of these inhibitors in Chinese tumor treatment-related departments.

The phase I trial is evaluating cobomarsen in cancers where the disease process appears to be correlated with an increase in miR-155 levels, including adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The associate professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center explained the goals for the future of the CAR T-cell therapy data in patients with DLBCL.

The medical oncologist from the John Theurer Cancer Center noted the importance of real-world data in determining potentially different toxicity profiles in these BTK-inhibitors.

Though physical activity guidelines are largely based on chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease and diabetes, these data suggest they are important to cancer prevention as well.

A phase I study showed brentuximab vedotin combined with a standard chemotherapy regimen of mitoxantrone, etoposide, and cytarabine may be safe and well tolerated in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

Diego Villa, MD, FRCPC, elaborated on the progress made with bendamustine and rituximab as induction therapy for transplant eligible and ineligible patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

The expert hematologist from Plymouth University Medical Center discussed the long-term outcomes of patients receiving ibrutinib for mantle cell lymphoma at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Bijal D. Shah, MD, discusses the progress made regarding CAR T-cell therapy and mantle cell lymphoma.

The associate professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center discussed the implications of her analysis of the CAR T-cell therapy tisagenlecleucel for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma at the ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

The Swedish Cancer Center expert discussed the addition of polatuzumab vedotin to a bendamustine-rituximab regimen at the ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

Andre H. Goy, MD, MS, from Hackensack University Medical Center, discussed ways to address the extension of survival for patients with DLBCL who achieved a complete remission at the ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

The ZUMA-II trial suggested that patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma resistant to prior therapies may benefit from the autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.

Matthew S. Davids, MD, MMSc, discussed his phase I/II study of duvalisib combined with venetoclax for patients with relapsed/refractory CLL and SLL at the ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.

The combination of ibrutinib and rituximab demonstrated superior progression-free survival in older patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The triplet regimen consisting of acalabrutinib, venetoclax, and obinutuzumab appeared highly active as frontline therapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Lisocabtagene maraleucel induced high response rates in patients with aggressive relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Treatment with lenalidomide and rituximab improved progression-free survival, compared with placebo in patients ≥70 years old with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.