Emerging Therapies for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

Dark zone lymphoma includes aggressive B-cell lymphomas with shared molecular features. While some respond to escalated treatment, others remain resistant, highlighting the need for targeted approaches to improve outcomes.

Axatilimab has gained FDA approval in 9 mg and 22 mg vials, expanding treatment options for patients with chronic GVHD after 2 prior therapy failures.

Enrollment in the LOTIS-5 trial of loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl with rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma has been completed.

The phase 3 ARES study of MaaT013 in patients with acute GVHD with gastrointestinal involvement met its primary end point of overall response rate at day 28.

In an interview with Peers & Perspectives in Oncology, Doris M. Ponce, MD, MS, a bone marrow transplant specialist, discussed how telehealth made a significant impact on patients with rare diseases receiving medical care and why the rules from the COVID-19 era should be brought back to continue helping these patients.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Andrew M. Brunner, MD, discussed dosing strategy for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents as well as dose modifications and safety for the novel agents imetelstat and luspatercept.