ASH Annual Meeting

Brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab, doxorubicin, and dacarbazine appears to be well tolerated in patients with advanced stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma, according to data from the phase 2 SGN35-027 trial.

Data from the phase 3 APPLY-PNH trial show comprehensive control of intravascular and extravascular hemolysis with iptacopan in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and persistent anemia.

The 3-year final analysis of efficacy and safety of the REACH3 trial showed that patients with steroid refractory or dependent chronic graft-versus-host disease benefited more with ruxolitinib compared with best available treatment.

An ongoing phase 1a/1b trial is set to evaluate NX-1607-101, an oral small-molecule inhibitor of casitas B-lineage lymphoma B designed to enhance innate and adaptive immune responses and demonstrate antitumor activity and long-term survival in patients with persistent lymphoma including those with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Sabarish Ram Ayyappan, MD, discusses findings from the final analysis of the phase 2 ELM-2 trial of odronextamab in a cohort of patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Acalabrutinib-containing regimens continued to improve progression-free survival, especially when a complete response is obtained, compared with obinutuzumab plus chlorambucil, in treatment-naive patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to a 6-year follow-up.

Axatilimab induced rapid and durable responses with an acceptable toxicity profile at all doses analyzed with highest efficacy observed at the 0.3-mg/kg dose in patients with recurrent or refractory chronic graft-vs-host disease.

Use of oral decitabine and cedazuridine vs intravenous/subcutaneous standard-of-care parenteral hypomethylating agents showed similar safety results but also improved treatment in in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.

Duration of ibrutinib and venetoclax, as determined by the patient’s minimal residual disease, improved survival in patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Andrew Srisuwananukorn, MD, discusses the main findings from research of an artificial intelligence-powered machine learning algorithm which evaluated digital whole-slide images of diagnostic bone marrow biopsies and accurately differentiated prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis from essential thrombocythemia.

In the final analysis of the phase 2 ELM-2 trial, odronextamab monotherapy showed encouraging efficacy, with a manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The use of the experimental navitoclax in combination with ruxolitinib produced impactful results for patients with myelofibrosis.

Results from the phase 1b study of Orca-T with myeloblative chemotherapy conditioning showed the feasibility of the therapy in younger and older patients with hematologic malignancies.

Durable responses were seen with obecabtagene autoleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia across bone marrow blast levels, with best efficacy and tolerability in those with less than 5% blasts.

Compared with CAR T-cell therapy, autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation resulted in lower relapse rates and improved progression-free survival in patients with relapsed large B-cell lymphoma while they were in complete response.

Orca-T, an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant biologic designed to control alloreactive immune responses, led to less graft-vs-host disease and favorable overall survival and relapse-free survival in patients with intermediate- and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Molecular minimal residual disease assessed after chemotherapy induction can identify patients with NPM1-mutated acute monocytic leukemia.

The JAK1 inhibitor golidocitinib led to responses in the challenging disease setting of relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, as well as manageable hematologic toxicity, in the phase 2 JACKPOT8 study.

Results from the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial showed superior progression-free survival and overall survival in patients 65 and older with large B-cell lymphoma with axicabtagene ciloleucel compared with standard of care.

Real-world evidence from over 2000 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, over half of whom received prior covalent BTK inhibitor, confirmed the efficacy of venetoclax in pretreated patients.

Investigators in the MCARTY study reported safety and high response rates in a small number of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who received chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy designed with a new process to target the D8 binder, meant to improve efficacy in targeting BCMA.

Updated results from the phase 1/2 BRUIN study show a high objective response rate and promising progression-free survival outcomes with pirtobrutinib following prior covalent Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibition in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Four outpatient chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy programs utilized a virtual care program including remote patient monitoring following T-cell infusion, reducing hospital admissions and helping patients contact nurses during non-clinical hours.

According to extended follow-up of the phase 3 ALPINE trial, treatment with zanubrutinib continued to demonstrate improved progression-free survival in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.

Although the use of bridging therapy prior to treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel did not improve efficacy or safety outcomes for patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma, responses to bridging therapy may be prognostic of favorable outcomes after axi-cel administration.

Brexucabtagene autoleucel is safe and effective in real-world patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma, regardless of the presence of high-risk features.

Results from the phase 1/2 SAVE trial demonstrated an improved objective response rate when revumenib was added to decitabine/cedazuridine, and venetoclax for patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

A machine learning, artificial intelligence algorithm analyzing diagnostic bone marrow biopsy digital whole-slide images was able to effectively differentiate with 92.3% accuracy between prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia.

Treatment with an all-oral regimen of arsenic trioxide, all-trans retinoic acid, and ascorbic acid led to both 3-year overall survival and relapse-free survival rates of 97% in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Idecabtagene vicleucel improved health-related quality of life compared with standard regimens in patients with triple-class exposed, relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.