Hematologic Oncology

Mary-Elizabeth Percival, MD, discusses advances and challenges with targeted agents in acute myeloid leukemia and remaining questions in the field.

Kleber Y. Fertrin, MD, PhD, assistant professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the FDA approval of avatrombopag in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).

Enrico Tiacci, MD, discusses safety and efficacy results of a trial evaluating the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib combined with rituximab in hairy cell leukemia.

The FDA has approved a supplemental new drug application to expand the use of avatrombopag to include the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia who have had an insufficient response to prior therapy.

Jerald P. Radich, MD, the methods that are used to measure minimal residual disease and the work being done to standardize its use in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Alexander E. Perl, MD, discusses gilteritinib’s place in the acute myeloid leukemia landscape and its potential future in the frontline setting.

Bijal Shah, MD, discusses the results of the phase I/II ZUMA-3 study, which looked at using KTE-X19, an anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, to treat patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The FDA has lifted a partial clinical hold that was placed on the phase III CANOVA (M13-494; NCT03539744) trial, which is examining venetoclax in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma that harbors t(11;14), according to AbbVie, the company that co-develops the BCL-2 inhibitor with Roche.

During a recent OncLive Peer Exchange discussion, a trio of immune thrombocytopenia specialists review clinical trial data that led to approval of the second-line agents, talk about efforts to refine first-line treatment, and discuss how they approach therapy selection for refractory patients. Finally, they highlight emerging therapies for ITP and the need to expand the pipeline.

Nearly three-fourths of patients with relapsed/refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma responded to a combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) plus brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris).

S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, discusses the rapidly changing landscape for the treatment of multiple myeloma, the future of immunomodulatory drugs, and whether quadruplet regimens will become more frequent.

The FDA has issued a complete response letter to Daiichi Sankyo informing the company that its new drug application would not be approved for quizartinib for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Patients with activated B-cell-type diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a poor prognosis may benefit from frontline treatment with lenalidomide plus standard R-CHOP, according to subgroup data from the phase III ROBUST trial presented at the 2019 International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma.

Matthew S. Davids, MD, MMSc, associate director, Center for Lymphocytic Leukemia, physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the use of the BCL‐2 inhibitor, venetoclax (Venclexta) with dose-adjusted infused etoposide, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide with vincristine, prednisone, and rituximab (R-EPOCH) to treat patients with Richter

Maintenance therapy with rituximab did not lead to an improvement in disease-free survival among patients who achieved complete remission following 4 cycles of R-CHOP.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan has approved quizartinib for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory FTL3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia, as detected by an MHLW-approved assay.