Acute Versus Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD)
January 11th 2024Drs Yi-Bin Chen, Corey Cutler, Hannah Choe, and Mitchell Horwitz distinguish acute from chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), how such distinction has changed over the last decades, and provide an overview of consensus definitions for disease grading.
Oncologists Explore Treatment Options in LGSOC, Look Toward Promising Future
Although there are no FDA-approved treatments specifically indicated for low-grade serous ovarian cancer, therapeutic options for these patients are rapidly expanding, with promising new approaches progressing through clinical development.
Pirtobrutinib Demonstrates Durable Efficacy in Covalent BTK Inhibitor–Pretreated CLL/SLL
Pirtobrutinib continued to showcase clinically meaningful efficacy in heavily pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma who had prior exposure to a covalent BTK inhibitor.
AI Algorithm Effectively Differentiates Between pre-PMF/ET
A machine learning, artificial intelligence algorithm analyzing diagnostic bone marrow biopsy digital whole-slide images was able to effectively differentiate with 92.3% accuracy between prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia.
Interpreting Results From RAMP 201: Avutometinib +/- Defactinib in Recurrent LGSOC
November 3rd 2023Expert oncologist David M. O’Malley, MD, reviews data from the RAMP 201 study utilizing avutometinib +/- defactinib in patients with recurrent low grade serous ovarian cancer and considers how this combination approach may impact the treatment landscape.
Venetoclax Monotherapy Leads to Responses, Genomic Changes in R/R CLL
Jennifer A. Woyach, MD, elucidates the updated results generated from a phase 2 study of venetoclax monotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) whose disease progressed on a prior B-cell receptor inhibitor, expanded on key findings from a genomic analysis from the study, and highlighted what these findings could mean for the CLL treatment paradigm.
Real-World Data Support Role of Palbociclib in HR+/HER2– Metastatic Breast Cancer
Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, MD, and colleagues highlight treatment for patients with HR-positive breast cancer, discuss the role of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, and expand on unmet needs for patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
Sintilimab Plus Chemoradiotherapy Improves EFS in Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
June 6th 2023The addition of sintilimab to chemoradiotherapy demonstrated a significant reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death, distant metastasis and locoregional recurrence compared with chemoradiotherapy alone as frontline therapy in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to findings from the phase 3 CONTINUUM trial.
Frontline Nivolumab/Ipilimumab Plus Chemotherapy Maintains Efficacy Advantage in Metastatic NSCLC
June 5th 2023Nivolumab plus ipilimumab and chemotherapy continued to show durable benefit at 4 years compared with chemotherapy alone as first-line therapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, particularly in the PD-L1–negative and squamous populations.
Dr Malalur on Addressing Unmet Needs in Pancreatic Cancer
May 8th 2023Pannaga G. Malalur, MBBS, discusses several unmet needs within pancreatic cancer, including the implementation of updated germline genetic testing guidelines, increased screening of high-risk patients, and improved sequencing of available therapeutics.