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A single infusion of ciltacabtagene autoleucel produced early and deep responses and encouraging minimal residue disease negativity in patients with multiple myeloma who experienced early clinical relapse following initial therapy.

Physician-scientists from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, will present expansive new hematology/oncology data from their clinical research program at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The results also demonstrated no significant difference in overall survival benefit between the treatment groups. However, almost all patients switched from FCR to ibrutinib or another regimen after disease relapse.

Comparative data from the phase 1 CARTITUDE-1 trial and the real-world LocoMMotion study demonstrated that ciltacabtagene autoleucel bested standard options for patients with triple-class exposed multiple myeloma.

Selinexor combined with venetoclax demonstrated efficacy and tolerability in heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma cell lines with t(11;14), according to small study results that were presented during the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting.

The first-in-class monoclonal antibody treatment for acute graft-versus-host disease had durable responses and tolerability for patients.

Glofitamab, an investigational CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody, induced high response rates as monotherapy or in combination with obinutuzumab in patients with multiple relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.

Treatment with lisocabtagene maraleucel demonstrated durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphomas.

Cost and personal time spent on managing adverse effects for treatment with ibrutinib, acalabrutinib, or venetoclax could inform decision-making strategies for treatment selection in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Naratuximab emtansine plus rituximab had promising response rates while also improving patient well-being when used to treat diffuse relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma and other non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas.

The addition of ublituximab and umbralisib to ibrutinib produced deep remissions with favorable tolerability in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who previously received ibrutinib and still had detectable minimal residual disease.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel led to a 60% improvement in event-free survival compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy as second-line treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel demonstrated a significant advantage over physician’s choice of treatment with regard to overall survival, progression-free survival, time to next treatment, and overall response rate, underscoring its potential for use in patients with triple-class relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Extended induction and consolidation therapy with daratumumab plus ixazomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone led to deepening rates of minimal residual disease for patients with standard-risk, transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

The novel non-covalent BTK inhibitor pirtobrutinib showed promising preclinical efficacy in overcoming ibrutinib and venetoclax resistance, and in limiting cell growth and inducing apoptosis in mantle cell lymphoma.

The use of the International Prognostic Scoring System score and JAK2 mutation status may identify patients at risk for major arterial and venous thrombosis in primary myelofibrosis, and suggests appropriate anti-thrombotic prophylaxis.

Minimal residual disease, assessed through next-generation sequencing was found to inform treatment selection and duration with daratumumab plus carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone following autologous transplant in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

The combinations of venetoclax plus acalabrutinib or obinutuzumab will be evaluated in the phase 3 MAJIC trial.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel, an autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, resulted in clinically meaningful improvement in quality of life at day 100 compared with standard of care as a second-line treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Weekly selinexor plus bortezomib and dexamethasone represents a favorable option for patients with multiple myeloma and any cytogenetic profile, based on comparable objective responses rates and progression-free survival results from 2 clinical trials.

The addition of eryaspase to chemotherapy demonstrated biological efficacy and tolerability in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are at risk of developing hypersensitivity reactions to Escherichia coli–derived pegylated asparaginase.

Tisagenlecleucel demonstrated encouraging real-world efficacy and a favorable safety profile that was consistent with findings from the pivotal phase 2 JULIET trial in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or high-grade B-cell lymphoma.

Asciminib demonstrated a consistent improvement in major molecular response rate and depth of response vs bosutinib in patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia without any new or worsening adverse effects.

Ibrutinib plus rituximab and mini-CHOP failed to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in overall survival at 2 years but led to an improvement in progression-free survival, quality of life, and function in elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Treatment with acalabrutinib for relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia was effective out to 3 years and demonstrated a progression-free survival benefit over standard of care, according to 3-year follow-up of the ASCEND study.

Quality of life improved in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia when treated in the frontline setting with ibrutinib-rituximab and with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab. Improved quality of life was also maintained during continuous therapy with ibrutinib and did not decline over time.

Real-world data of children and young adults with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with tisagenlecleucel demonstrated similar efficacy outcomes and a more favorable safety profile compared with the ELIANA trial.

Selinexor in combination with daratumumab, bortezomib and dexamethasone demonstrated a manageable safety profile and encouraging efficacy in patients with late- and early-relapsed multiple myeloma.

Ponatinib demonstrated high response rates in patients with TKI-resistant, chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia, irrespective of T315I mutation status at baseline, according to findings from the phase 2 OPTIC trial.

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