ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition: Lymphoma

Research from a pilot trial presented at the 2020 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting found above average complete response and disease-free survival rates for patients with DLBCL.

The preliminary findings of the extension arm of the phase 2 GO29365 study confirmed the benefits and tolerability of polatuzumab vedotin (Polivy) plus bendamustine (Bendeka) and rituximab (Rituxan) for patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

Research presented at the 2020 ASH Annual Meeting may have found an alternative path forward for patients who do not respond to immunotherapy treatment for large B-cell lymphomas.

A novel ROR1-targeted antibody-drug conjugate, VLS-101, demonstrated encouraging clinical efficacy, consistent pharmacokinetics, and a favorable safety profile in patients with heavily pretreated mantle cell lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel demonstrated long-term disease control with rapid responses and robust CAR T-cell expansion among patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Regardless of age, Selinexor induced a clinical benefit in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-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.

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.

The combination use of polatuzumab-vedotin, obinutuzumab, and lenalidomide showed high complete response rates in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

Mosunetuzumab generated durable responses in patients with highly refractory non-Hodgkin lymphomas.

The CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel induced a median overall survival of 25.8 months for patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Researchers compared the ability of a novel prognostic score vs existing scores to identify patients with high-risk DLBCL.

The results of a follow-up analysis to the phase III MAVORIC study were presented at the ASH 2018 Annual Meeting & Exposition.

In the single-arm, multicenter, phase II part of the CAVALLI trial, the researchers analyzed the efficacy of 800-mg venetoclax plus R-CHOP in all first-line DLBCL patients.

Research presented at ASH 2018 examined whether checkpoint blockade therapy sensitizes patients with relapsed/refractory NHL to consequent treatment.

Researchers studied clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) as a way to assess risk for increased mortality in lymphoma patients.

Researchers developed an enhanced genomic model combining clinical factors and select gene mutations in order to better predict survival in patients with DLBCL who were administered first-line R-CHOP.

Adding rituximab to MBVP induction chemotherapy does not improve outcomes for patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma.

In this interview we discuss how a short diagnosis-to-treatment interval in newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is associated with worse outcomes and how this could lead to trials favoring patients with a longer diagnosis-to-treatment interval and better expected outcomes.

Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma treated with a drug combination including brentuximab vedotin achieved superior progression-free survival, with a reduction in the risk for progression, death, or need for additional anticancer therapy, compared with the standard four-drug chemotherapy regimen.

In this interview, we discuss the biology and the therapeutic strategies for primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma.

The use of anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells induced a nearly sixfold higher rate of complete response compared with historical outcomes in patients with refractory, aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Lenalidomide maintenance significantly improves survival in patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who are not eligible for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT).

As part of our coverage of the ASH Annual Meeting, we are discussing novel agents and strategies for relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma.