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The combination of daratumumab with bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone continued to improve hematologic and organ responses after 18 months of follow-up.

Findings from the phase 1b TRIMM-2 study indicated that patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma experienced manageable toxicities and promising responses to treatment with talquetamab and daratumumab.

Ibrutinib and ventoclex given in the frontline setting demonstrated deeper and longer minimal residual disease for elderly and unfit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Orca-T improved efficacy outcomes over standard of care therapy for patients with serious hematologic malignancies.

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who were treated with ibrutinib and venetoclax in the first line continued to demonstrate deep, durable responses with new data showing further benefit to continuous ibrutinib therapy after 2 years.

Research presented at the 63rd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition found significantly higher MRD-negativity and sustained MRD-negativity rates among patients with transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma receiving D-VTd over VTd alone.

The combination of MRD-guided ibrutinib and venetoclax demonstrated feasibility for treating patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Mosunetuzumab given to patients with heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma demonstrated an effective response.

Patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are non-transplant eligible and intermediate-fit and who received a less toxic regimen of ixazomib, daratumumab, and low-dose dexamethasone demonstrated higher rates of objective response.

Second-line treatment with liscocabtagene maraleucel improved survival compared with the standard of care for patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

A phase 2 trial shows promise of the daratumumab/ixazomib combination in frail and elderly patients with multiple myeloma who are treated in the relapsed setting when given without dexamethasone.

Patients receiving daratumumab, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone in the first line saw better overall survival than those who waited and received second-line daratumumab-based regimens for transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Luciano Costa, MD, PhD, spoke about which abstracts he wants to see most at ASH 2021.

Thomas G. Martin, MD, spoke about the previously reported results of the CARTITUDE-1 study in patients with relapsed or refractory myeloma ahead of the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting.

Thomas G. Martin, MD, spoke about the abstracts regarding B-cell maturation antigen–targeted treatments he’s excited to see presented at ASH 2021.

Research from the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggests pathologic complete response and event-free survival were not significantly impacted by race for women with high-risk breast cancer who underwent targeted neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Patients with gremlin BRCA1/2 mutations and high-risk HER2-negative early breast cancer can have amenable adverse effects after being treated with chemotherapy before utilize olaparib.

The anti-TIGIT therapy tiragolumab administered in combination with atezolizumab showed clinically meaningful improvement at the 2.5-year follow-up vs atezolizumab alone for patients with PD-L1–positive metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Investigators were able to identify breast cancer immunohistochemistry markers including Ki-67, estrogen receptor, and progesterone receptor status utilizing deep learning–based artificial intelligence algorithms

Jennifer A. Woyach, MD, spoke about which abstracts she’s most excited to see presented at the 2021 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.

Patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer who were treated with samuraciclib plus fulvestrant saw tumor activity.

Circulating tumor DNA should be utilized early to help detect relapse in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Second-line fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki prolonged survival and led to higher responses over ado-trastuzumab emtansine for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Nina Shah, MD, touched on important abstracts being presented at the 2021 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.

Findings from the SqeDCIS trial indicated that DCISionRT was predictive of radiotherapy benefit in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast.

Treatment with serplulimab yielded a significant improvement in overall survival in combination with chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Thomas G. Martin, MD, spoke about different abstracts to be presented at ASH 2021.

Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer appeared to derive a higher overall survival benefit after being treated with pyrotinib plus capecitabine vs lapatinib plus capecitabine.

Oncomine Dx Target Test has been approved by the FDA as a companion diagnostic to identify EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who may undergo treatment with amivantamab.

Utilizing neratinib or abo-trastuzumab emtansine for patients with HER2-positive early stage breast cancer reduced the risk of distant recurrence.