The combination of brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) and nivolumab (Opdivo) demonstrated promising clinical activity in patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results from a phase I/II trial presented at the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.
Treatment with the novel PD-1 inhibitor cemiplimab induced responses in half of the patients with Hodgkin lymphoma in a phase I study of patients with B-lymphoid malignancies; among patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with the monotherapy, the overall response rate was 11.1%, according to a poster presentation at the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.
Treatment with tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) continues to excite the possibilities seen with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy with impressive responses seen with the therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. In the phase II JULIET trial, an overall response rate of 53.1% was observed, according to findings presented at the ASH Annual Meeting.
Treatment with ladiratuzumab vedotin demonstrated an estimated median progression-free survival (PFS) of 11.6 weeks for patients with heavily pretreated metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) treated with the recommended phase II dose of the antibody–drug conjugate, according to results of a phase I study presented during the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Hope S. Rugo, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the 5-year follow-up of the CALGB 40502 study for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Treatment discontinuation due to toxicity was less frequent with olaparib (Lynparza) monotherapy compared with chemotherapy in patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer and a germline <em>BRCA</em> mutation in the phase III OlympiAD study.
Ruben A. Mesa, MD, Director of the UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center, discusses 4-year follow-up results from the phase III RESPONSE trial, which investigated ruxolitinib (Jafaki) with best available therapy for the treatment of polycythemia vera (PV) during the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.
Adding rituximab (Rituxan) to ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) did not improve progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) versus ibrutinib alone, despite there being a faster time to complete remission.
According to results of a phase Ib/II trial presented at the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting, the frontline triplet regimen of atezolizumab (Tecentriq), obinutuzumab (Gazyva), and bendamustine was associated with an overall response rate (ORR) of 85% (Modified Lugano criteria; independent review) in patients with follicular lymphoma.
Jesus Berdeja, MD, Director of Multiple Myeloma Research, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses results of a study that explored bb2121, an anti-BCMA CAR T cell therapy, in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma during the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.
Updated results from the TRANSCEND study demonstrated that liso-cel (lisocabtagene maraleucel), formally known as JCAR017, induced an 81% objective response rate and a 63% complete remission rate in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
In patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in combination with venetoclax (Venclexta) induced an objective response rate (ORR) of 100%, according to findings from the TAP CLARITY clinical trial.
Treatment using BLU-285 (Avapritinib) induced clinically significant activity in patients with an advanced or aggressive form of systemic mastocytosis (ASM), a rare blood disorder that originates in mast cells, according to data from an ongoing phase I trial.<br />
In findings from the phase III GeparSepto trial presented during the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, long-term disease-free survival rates were improved with neoadjuvant nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) compared with standard paclitaxel in patients with high-risk early breast cancer.
The addition of brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) to doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (A+AVD) reduced the risk of progression and death by 23% in patients with advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) compared with standard ABVD (doxorubicin [Adriamycin], bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine) chemotherapy, according to results of the phase III ECHELON-1 clinical trial.
Treatment with the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy axi-cel (axicabtagene ciloleucel; Yescarta) demonstrated improvement in long-term survival rates in patients with refractor, aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to updated findings from the pivotal ZUMA-1 trial.
Mogamulizumab improved progression-free survival in previously treated patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by 4.6 months compared with vorinostat (Zolinza), according to findings from the phase III MAVORIC study.
Incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence was reduced in patients with cancer with oral rivaroxaban (Xarelto) therapy compared with dalteparin (Fragmin), the current standard of care, according to results from the Select-D pilot trial presented during the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Phase Ib results presented at the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting demonstrated that zanubrutinib (BGB-3111), an investigational BTK inhibitor, had encouraging rates of clinical activity in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, including an overall response rate of 78% among patients with marginal zone lymphoma.
Kerry Rogers, MD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses a phase II trial of early intervention with ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in patients with asymptomatic, high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) during the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.<br />
Matthew S. Davids, MD, Associate Director, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, discusses a study that explored optimizing checkpoint blockade as a treatment for relapsed hematologic malignancies after allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation during the 2017 ASH Annual Meeting.<br /> <br />
For patients with mantle cell lymphoma, initial and maintenance treatment with the combination of lenalidomide (Revlimid) and rituximab (Rituxan) were found to be feasible, safe, and elicit clinical activity.
Survival rates improved with nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) therapy compared with paclitaxel in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) more than in other patient subsets, according to findings from a post-hoc analysis from the CALGB 40502/NCCTG N063H clinical trial.
Updated results of the phase Ib/II ENHANCE1/KEYNOTE-150 study presented at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium found that the combination of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and eribulin (Halaven) was associated with a 26.4% objective response rate for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
Results of a prospective clinical trial demonstrated that the detection of positive circulating tumor cells in the blood 5 years after hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer diagnosis was associated with an increased risk for late recurrence.
Tari King, MD, chief of Breast Surgery, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, discusses a "less is more" approach when it comes to lymph node surgery in patients with breast cancer.
Treatment with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog could potentially preserve fertility and protect ovarian function in premenopausal woman being treated with chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer, according to the results of a meta-analysis presented at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Results of the phase III SOLD trial maintained the benefit of 12 months of adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin) for patients with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer, as the trial failed to demonstrate noninferiority for 9 weeks of trastuzumab versus the standard 1-year period, when added to chemotherapy.
Disease-free survival is maintained in women with postmenopausal hormone receptor-positive breast cancer treated with aromatase inhibitors, even when the treatment is only given for 2 years in comparison with the standard 5 years of additional aromatase inhibitor therapy, according to findings from the phase III ABCSG-16 trial presented at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.