Hematologic Oncology

The treatment landscape of relapsed/ refractory multiple myeloma has undergone rapid changes over the past 2 decades, with over a dozen drug approvals by the FDA.

Ira Braunschweig, MD, discusses mitigating ​the toxicities that are associated with CAR T-cell therapy in lymphoma.

A Type II variation application has been submitted by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to the European Medicines Agency for the subcutaneous formulation of daratumumab in combination with bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone for use in adult patients with light-chain amyloidosis.

Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, discusses current treatment strategies in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm.

The treatment landscape for multiple myeloma is poised to enter a new era of innovation with the development of therapies that target B-cell maturation antigen, which is highly expressed on plasma and MM cells.

Charles Schiffer, MD, discusses factors to consider for TKI discontinuation in chronic myeloid leukemia.

During the 2020 Institutional Perspectives in Cancer webinar on hematologic malignancies, Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH, provides detail as to some of these nuances and the optimal management of patients with CML.

Delaying treatment for up to 7 days so that genomic data can be utilized to inform a personalized treatment approach is safe, feasible, and can improve overall survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Charles Schiffer, MD, discusses integration of TKIs, such as imatinib, into the chronic myeloid leukemia treatment paradigm.

Abhinav Deol, MD, highlights the progress that has been made with CAR T-cell therapy in leukemia and lymphoma, challenges faced with regard to accessibility and toxicity, and next steps for this modality.

Caron Jacobson, MD, discusses the significance of CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy in B-cell malignancies.

Jeffrey Zonder, MD, discusses the explosion of targeted therapies, along with the rise of cellular therapy, in hematologic malignancies.

Derek C. Galligan, MD, discusses unmet needs in high-risk multiple myeloma.

In our exclusive interview, Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, provides perspective on the FDA approval of selinexor in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Single-agent daratumumab as maintenance therapy improved progression-free survival compared with observation in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma eligible for autologous stem cell transplant.

p53 presents a significant challenge for investigators, and the field is littered with clinical trial failures and abandoned drug development programs.

The FDA has granted regular approval to venetoclax in combination with azacitidine, decitabine, or low-dose cytarabine for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia who are 75 years or older or who have comorbidities precluding intensive induction chemotherapy.

In our exclusive interview, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, discusses the prevalence of TP53 mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, the prognosis these mutations confer, and the development of eprenetapopt and magrolimab in this patient population.

Guadecitabine failed to result in a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared with physician’s choice of alternative therapy in previously treated adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

The addition of the histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat to the mTOR inhibitors sirolimus or everolimus demonstrated encouraging clinical activity and manageable safety in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma.

As James K. McCloskey II, MD, begins the next chapter of his career as chief of the Division of Leukemia at John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center.

The FDA has approved an expanded label for pembrolizumab for use as a monotherapy in the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma and pediatric patients with refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, or classical Hodgkin lymphoma that has relapsed after 2 or more lines of therapy.

Copanlisib in combination with rituximab prolonged progression-free survival in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who relapsed following 1 or more previous lines of rituximab-based therapy.

Rebecca Silbermann, MD, MMS, discusses the role of disease biology in multiple myeloma.