LEUKEMIAS

Acute myeloid leukemia has one of the highest unmet needs for new therapies out of all human cancers, according to Marcin Kortylewski.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has updated its guidelines on ALL in adolescents and young adults.

Despite advances with MRD monitoring, further research and practice advances are needed to continue the trend for improving outcomes in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The FDA has approved brexucabtagene autoleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment with the investigational agent SY-2101 has begun in a phase 3 clinical trial of patients with newly-diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia.

According to David T. Teachey, MD, newly developed therapies have improved remission rates in T-ALL and B-ALL.

Gwen Nichols, MD, reviews the evolving landscape of acute myeloid leukemia for Leukemia Awareness Month.

Asciminib for the treatment of 2 chronic myeloid leukemia subgroups is now under FDA consideration for approval.

Fast track designation has been granted by the FDA to eryaspase for the treatment of patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia who have developed hypersensitivity reactions to E. coli-derived pegylated asparaginase.

Asparaginase has been added to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Treatment for a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who has comorbidities including hypertension and atrial fibrillation was the topic of discussion during a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Roundtable event led by Parameswaran Venugopal, MD.

Bijal Shah, MD, MS, discusses the timing of treatment with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in regard to the data from the ZUMA-3 trial of brexucabtagne autoleucel in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The FDA has granted approval to Rylaze for use within a chemotherapy regimen to treat adult and pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma who are allergic to the E. coli-derived asparaginase products that are traditionally used.

Patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia will now be assesses with the off-the-shelf cell therapy CYNK-001 after a case of conversion to minimal residual disease negativity at its highest dose level.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to SNDX-5613 for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemias who harbor a mixed lineage leukemia rearranged or nucleophosmin mutation.

The FDA approved the use of avapritinib for patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis, aggressive systemic mastocytosis, systemic mastocytosis with an associated hematological neoplasm, and mast cell leukemia.

A robust and durable response was seen in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia after receiving a single infusion of KTE-X19, a CAR T-cell therapy.

Early results of a phase 2 study show that the efficacy achieved with the combination of ponatinib and blinatumomab represents a potentially promising chemotherapy-free, hematopoietic stem cell transplant–sparing treatment for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphocytic leukemia.

The FDA has accepted and granted priority review to a new drug application for pacritinib for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia, defined as a platelet count less than 50x109/L.

The FDA has accepted the biologic license application (BLA) for ublituximab in combination with umbralisib for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

The combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax showed a favorable benefit-risk profile in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated in the VISION/HOVON 141.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Sergio A. Giralt, MD, discussed recent data from the study. 

Targeting different pathways may dramatically reduce the risk of resistance emergence and improve outcomes.

Haris Ali, MD, discusses research supporting the use of ruxolitinib for the treatment of myelofibrosis.

Findings suggest that combination regimens may extend overall and progression-free survival.