All Oncology News

Neurologic adverse effect associated with CAR T-cell therapies like ciltacabtagene autoleucel can be managed without long-term lasting effects, as long as they are caught and treated promptly in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

A study of treatment patterns in adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma revealed a discrepancy between actual patterns of care and recommendations based on clinical trials.

Compared to currently available therapies, treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel induced substantial objective response rate, progression-free survival, time to next treatment and overall survival improvements in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

The combination of naratuximab emtansine and rituximab yielded deep responses, and a duration of response that was not reached in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide and dexamethasone continued to reduced the risk of death by 32% compared with Rd alone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are transplant ineligible after almost 5 years of follow-up.

Fixed-duration ibrutinib and venetoclax as a first-line treatment yielded superior progression-free survival compared with chlorambucil plus obinutuzumab in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Rusfertide has been shown to be an effective option for patients with polycythemia vera in that it reverses iron deficiency, improves disease-related symptoms, and eliminates the need for therapeutic phlebotomy.

Daratumumab maintenance therapy yielded an increase in response following autologous stem cell transplant plus induction and consolidation therapy with bortezomib, thalidomide, and dexamethasone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

In the first few years of their availability in the United States, axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel have been used to mostly treat patients with diffuse large b-cell lymphoma in the outpatient setting who are receiving the CAR T-cell therapies prior to failure on 2 prior lines of therapy.

The next-generation, selective BTK inhibitor acalabrutinib demonstrated noninferiority to ibrutinib in terms of progression-free survival in patients with previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the phase 3 ELEVATE-RR trial.

Zanubrutinib continued to induce deep responses with acceptable tolerability in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, including those with high-risk cytogenetics.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel demonstrated significant clinical activity with durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma who experienced disease progression within 24 months from initiation of the first anti-CD20–containing chemotherapy, which is a high-risk clinical feature.

Luspatercept-aamt achieved a 77.1% mean hemoglobin increase of 1.0 g/dL or higher from baseline over a continuous 12-week interval during weeks 13 to 24 in the absence of red blood cell transfusions vs 0% with placebo in patients with non-transfusion–dependent β-thalassemia.

The combination of lenalidomide and rituximab continued to improve progression-free survival with durable outcomes and a manageable safety profile in patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas and mantle cell lymphomas.

Although cardiovascular health of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms was relatively good, an estimated 11% to 22% of patients were not prescribed appropriate medications for management of comorbidities associated with thrombotic risk.

Time-to-next treatment and overall survival were improved in a real-world study evaluating patients who received rituximab maintenance after first-line treatment with bendamustine and rituximab or R-CHOP in patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

The fixed-dose combination of the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax and the humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody obinutuzumab continued to confer a progression-free survival advantage over chlorambucil plus obinutuzumab for patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Othman Al-Sawaf, MD, discusses the efficacy of venetoclax plus obinutuzumab in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, as demonstrated in the phase 3 CLL14 trial.

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, discusses results seen with momelotinib in patients with transfusion-independent myelofibrosis, as demonstrated in the phase 3 SIMPLIFY-1 and SIMPLIFY-2 trials.

Intensified induction therapy with daratumumab in addition to cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone and bortezomib-augmented autologous stem cell transplant yielded robust responses in patients with ultra¬ high–risk multiple myeloma or primary plasma cell leukemia

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who were treated with ciltacabtagene autoleucel experienced improved outcomes over those who received a conventional therapy

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel demonstrated efficacious responses and significant improvements in survival over standard of care in triple class–relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Zanubrutinib induced superior response and progression-free survival rates, as well as lower rates of atrial fibrillation/flutter than ibrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

A 60 mg dose of zandelisib administered on an intermittent schedule from cycle 1 plus 80 mg of zanubrutinib twice daily yielded promising response rates in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The Japan Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has granted conditional and time-limited approval to teserpaturev for the treatment of patients with malignant glioma; this is the first oncolytic virus to receive approval for use in this indication or any primary brain cancer.

Bijal Shah, MD, MS, discusses the key findings of the ZUMA-3 trial, as well as key safety information regarding brexucabtagene autoleucel as a treatment for patients with heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell ALL.

Treatment with the allogeneic CAR T-cell product ALLO-501A elicited encouraging signals of clinical activity when used with ALLO-647 lymphodepletion in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma who did not previously receive autologous CAR T-cell therapy.

The incidence of grade ≥2 cytokine release syndrome was lower in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who received anakinra prophylaxis with orvacabtagene autoleucel, a B-cell maturation antigen-targeted CAR T-cell therapy.

A revolutionary new urine screening test that utilizes a novel Keratin 17 cancer biomarker can detect the presence of new bladder cancer in patients with hematuria, or blood in the urine.