Hematologic Oncology

In response to a rise in hematopoietic cell transplantation, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published its first guideline for the specialized intervention, which is performed approximately 22,000 times a year in the United States in patients with hematological cancers and other diseases.

Prapti Patel, MD, discusses delaying treatment until after genetic testing in elderly patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.

OncLive interviewed experts at the State of the Science Summits™ in January 2020 on what they are going to work on improving in clinical practice this year.

Robert J. Kreitman, MD, senior investigator and head of the Clinical Immunotherapy Section in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute, discusses the use of moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk (Lumoxiti) in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory hairy cell leukemia (HCL).

John N. Allan, MD, assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and assistant professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, discusses the use of vecabrutinib (SNS-062) therapy in patients with B-cell malignancies.

Rajat Bannerji, MD, PhD, hematologist/oncologist and chief of hematologic malignancies at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, discusses the clinical activity of the bispecific antibody REGN1979 in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).