Lymphoma

In an interview, Kami J. Maddocks, MD, details therapies that may shake up the standard of care in lymphoma going forward.

Experts comment on the future of CAR T-cell therapy development and the use of dual CAR-T and CAR-T retreatment.

Drs Goy, Ip, and Leslie close out their discussion with a look at the exciting developments and future of CAR T-cell therapies in lymphoma treatment.

Key opinion leaders describe when to refer a patient with lymphoma and at what point treatments should be switched, and the evolution of T-cell engaging therapies.

Opening their discussion on relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma (R/R FL), expert participants review the spectrum of available treatments in this setting.

In an interview, Kami J. Maddocks, MD, showed her excitement about future use of bispecific antibodies for the treatment of lymphomas.

Kami J. Maddocks, MD, reviews updates to a pivotal trial supporting the use of brentuximab vedotin in advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma and ongoing research into PD-1 inhibitors in this space.

Dr Lori Leslie provides an overview of key clinical trial data on the use of CAR T-cell therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Drs Goy and Leslie converse on the use of CAR T-cell therapy in acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, the first approved treatment for ALL.

Data from the phase 1 METEOR-1 trial showed modest efficacy with GSK3326595, a PRMT5 inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Circulating tumor DNA levels could be a potential prognostic tool for predicting outcomes in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

In patients with non-germinal center B cell–like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the combination of orelabrutinib plus R-CHOP revealed an overall response rate of 86.4%.

Kami J. Maddocks, MD, reviews findings from the SHINE trial comparing ibrutinib plus bendamustine/rituximab vs bendamustine/rituximab alone in newly diagnosed mantle cell lymphoma.

Lori Leslie, MD, explains how CAR T-cell therapy fits into follicular lymphoma treatment sequencing, highlighting data from the ZUMA-5 trial.

Andre Goy, MD, and Andrew Ip, MD, give an overview of the approval of CAR T-cell therapy for mantle cell lymphoma treatment.

Ranjit Nair, MD, discusses the promise of sugemalimab, both as a single-agent and as part of a combination regimen, in patients with relapsed/refractory extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma.

Superior survival were observed across all efficacy outcomes for patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma treated with tisagenlecleucel compared with standard of care.

Kami J. Maddocks, MD, talks CAR T-cell therapy approvals for the treatment of relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma plus a new treatment supplanting R-CHOP.

Dr Andrew Ip explains the major toxicities of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with large B-cell lymphoma and how to manage them.

Lymphoma physicians from John Theurer Cancer Center comment on the use of CAR T-cell therapy in large B-cell lymphoma and the implications of clinical trial data in this setting.

Dr Lori Leslie discusses how to assess if a patient with large B-cell lymphoma is a good candidate for CAR T-cell therapy.

Andrew Ip, MD, and Lori Leslie, MD, review clinical trial and real-world data on the efficacy and survival rates of CAR T-cell therapy in large B-cell lymphoma.

A partial clinical hold placed on the phase 1/2 TakeAim Lymphoma trial was lifted after a strategy to identify and manage rhabdomyolysis was agreed upon.

P. Connor Johnson, MD, and Jeremy S. Abramson MD, MMSc, discuss available treatments for patients with Burkitt lymphoma and high-grade B-cell lymphoma.

Patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma may benefit from treatment with polatuzumab vedotin-piiq plus rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone, for which a supplemental biologics license application was accepted by the FDA.

Patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies who received zandelisib at 60 mg via an intermittent dosing schedule experienced a low incidence of grade 3 or higher adverse effects.

Patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma with 2 or more prior therapies experienced promising safety and remission rates following treatment with mosunetuzumab.

Findings from the phase 2 TRANSCEND-PILOT-017006 supported the use of lisocabtagene maraleucel as a second-line treatment for patients with large B-cell lymphoma who were not able to or didn’t want to receive hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

Dexamethasone, Cisplatin, gemcitabine, and pegaspargase resulted in improved preliminary outcomes vs dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide for patients with newly diagnosed locally advanced stage III or IV extranodal natural killer/ T-cell lymphoma.

WU-CART-007 was granted fast track and rare pediatric disease designation by the FDA for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma.