Lymphoma

Chicago, IL—Maintenance therapy can improve overall survival (OS) in older and younger patients with mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL), based on current experience with rituximab (Rituxan) therapy, but the optimal dose and dosing schedule remain under investigation.
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Multidrug chemotherapy regimens, with or without radiotherapy, have proved to be highly successful in achieving long-term remissions in the majority of patients with advanced-stage Hodg­kin lymphoma. However, depending on the treatment given, approximately 30% of patients with advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma do not achieve long-term remission.
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San Diego, CA—Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) monotherapy significantly improved the objective response rate (ORR) lasting ≥4 months compared with the investigator’s choice of standard therapy in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), reported Youn H. Kim, MD, Director, Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, at the 2016 American Society of Hematology meeting.
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San Diego, CA—Combination induction therapy with ibrutinib (Imbruvica) and rituximab (Rituxan) in patients with mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) led to objective responses in each of the first 50 patients who received this combination in an ongoing, phase 2 clinical trial presented at the 2016 American Society of Hematology meeting.
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San Diego, CA—The PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has good activity in patients with relapsed or refractory mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome, and the responses it produces are deep and durable, according to study results reported by Michael Khodadoust, MD, PhD, Medicine-Oncology, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, at the 2016 American Society of Hematology meeting.
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The combined use of effective multidrug chemotherapy regimens and radiation over the past few decades has led to significant improvements in the prognosis of Hodgkin lymphoma, making achievement of a cure a clinical reality for the majority of patients.1 With current therapies, long-term tumor control may be achieved in 70%-80% of patients.1 However, a subset of patients do not respond to frontline therapy or relapses following initial response.
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The use of therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T-cells consistently demonstrated activity in advanced hematologic malignancies, including different types of lymphoma, in multiple trials reported at ASH 2015.
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Immunotherapy is generating great excitement in melanoma and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The FDA approvals of checkpoint inhibitors in these tumor types, as well as encouraging preliminary results in other solid tumors, have paved the way for studying these therapies in hematologic cancers.
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New Orleans, LA—Mounting evidence from several research centers shows that autologous T-cells genetically engineered with a chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T; also called CTL019) achieve dramatic responses in patients with advanced leukemia and lymphoma who have exhausted all treatment options.
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