LYMPHOMAS

The FDA has approved bortezomib (Velcade) in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (VR-CAP) as a frontline treatment for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Despite a recent decline in utilization, consolidated radiation therapy (RT) has been shown to improve 10-year survival rates for patients with stage I/II Hodgkin's lymphoma following treatment with chemotherapy.

Kenneth R. Carson, MD, assistant professor, Division of Oncology, Washington University, discusses post-therapy imaging in lymphoma.

B-cell malignancies include non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). NHLs are a heterogeneous group of more than 30 cancers of B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes.

Follicular lymphoma is the malignancy of germinal center B cells in the lymph nodes. It is the second most commonly diagnosed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, accounting for approximately 35% of all such cases.

Anas Younes, MD, chief, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses IPI-145 and ABT-199 for the treatment of lymphoid malignancies.

Julian Adams, PhD, president, Research and Development, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, discusses the rationale for a phase II trial looking at IPI-145 for the treatment of patients with refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Anas Younes, MD, chief, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase III trial of brentuximab vedotin plus doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (A+AVD) versus doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD) as front-line treatment for advanced classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

The FDA has approved the novel pan-HDAC inhibitor belinostat for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

The FDA has approved the radioactive diagnostic imaging agent Lymphoseek injection to guide sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with cancer of the head and neck.

Jennifer Woyach, MD, assistant professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the efficacy findings from the RESONATE trial, a phase III trial that compared ibrutinib versus ofatumumab in relapsed or refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Filip Janku, MD, PhD, discusses a trial presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting looking at the activity of the mTOR inhibitor sirolimus and HDAC inhibitor vorinostat in heavily pretreated patients with refractory Hodgkin lymphoma.

A phase III study exploring the chemotherapy regimen DHAP plus ofatumumab failed to meet its primary endpoint of prolongation in PFS when compared with DHAP plus rituximab for patients with relapsed or refractory DLBCL.

Anas Younes, MD, chief, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the implications of ibrutinib’s approval for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

Jasmine Zain, MD, from the Center for the Lymphoid Malignancies, Columbia University Medical Center, discusses two ongoing trials in T-cell lymphomas.

Ari Melnick, MD, a professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the challenges associated with measuring tumor heterogeneity.

Andre Goy, MD, chairman, director, and chief of the Lymphoma Division at the John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses the treatment of elderly patients with lymphoma.

Screening for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) significantly cuts the death rate from prostate cancer, but at the same time, America’s medical community should work harder to avoid the screen’s potential pitfalls.

Alessandra Ferrajoli, MD, associate professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the management of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in elderly patients.

The non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas are a diverse and heterogeneous group of neoplasms most commonly originating in B lymphocytes (80%-85%), but also in T lymphocytes (15%-20%), and, rarely, in natural killer cells.

With the growing knowledge of immune system components, signaling processes, and regulatory networks, cancer immunotherapy has yielded increasingly favorable treatment outcomes.

A wide-ranging analysis of more than 5500 breast cancer tumors that combined genomic and protein expression testing has identified promising targets to explore for treating patients with poor prognoses, with particularly notable findings involving androgen receptor (AR) expression.

Eribulin mesylate has demonstrated clinical benefit as a first-line therapy for locally recurrent or metastatic HER2- negative breast cancer, according to results of a phase II, multicenter, single-arm study.

Anas Younes, MD, chief, Lymphoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment with idelalisib for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL)

Ari Melnick, MD, a professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses EZH2 and its potential as a target in diffuse large B cell lymphoma