Mesa Talks Biggest Breakthroughs in Myelofibrosis in 2021
At ASH 2021, CancerNetwork® spoke with Ruben Mesa, MD, of UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, about big breakthroughs in the treatment of myelofibrosis over the preceding year.
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In myelofibrosis this year, the breakthrough was the growth of the myelofibrosis (MF) pipeline. We’ve had more phase 3 clinical trials in MF this year than we’ve ever had in our history, both in terms of large-scale, single-agent JAK2 inhibitor trials, follow-up series for fedratinib (Inrebic), pacritinib, and momelotinib, and now phase 3 trials in the frontline setting [such as] pelabresib and ruxolitinib (Jakafi), navitoclax and ruxolitinib, and multiple second-line phase 3 studies. This is an explosion of research unlike anything we’ve ever had before, and it makes me deeply excited about the options we’re going to have.
