Leukemia

The FDA has approved the first gene therapy available in the United States, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), for the treatment of pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Natural killer cells derived from donated umbilical cords could be modified to seek and destroy some types of leukemia and lymphoma.

In this interview we discuss the link between breast implants and anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, a rare type of T-cell lymphoma.

Pediatric patients with ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphomas and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors had strong responses to treatment with crizotinib.

The FDA has approved inotuzumab ozogamicin (Besponsa) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Pediatric solid organ transplant recipients account for about 3% of diagnosed pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases in the United States.

Arsenic trioxide consolidation was well tolerated in pediatric patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia and allowed for significant reductions in cumulative anthracycline doses.

Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in the blast phase pose a significant therapeutic challenge and have poor survival, even in the tyrosine kinase inhibitor era, according to a new study.

The FDA has approved a fixed combination of daunorubicin and cytarabine (Vyxeos) for the treatment of newly diagnosed therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as well as AML with myelodysplasia-related changes.

Patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases are at increased risk of certain cancers, according to a new study. The strongest association was with lymphoma.

Acalabrutinib has been granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have relapsed or have received at least one prior therapy.

The FDA has approved enasidenib (Idhifa) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory IDH2-mutant acute myeloid leukemia.

Dose optimization of nilotinib is feasible and may help patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia achieve molecular responses, according to results of a new study.

A large genomic sequencing analysis of patients with T-ALL revealed a new landscape of mutations that may inform future treatment strategies.

Treatment with imatinib results in good overall survival in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, approaching a normal life expectancy, according to the CML-IV study.

The FDA has granted priority review status for two new indications of dasatinib (Sprycel), according to the drug’s developer.

Researchers have identified two distinct stem cell–like populations from which relapse can arise in AML patients, which may help clinicians identify who will and won't respond to standard chemotherapy.

Treatment of adult relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia with inotuzumab ozogamicin was associated with increased hepatotoxicity, especially after follow-up hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The FDA has expanded the approval of blinatumomab (Blincyto) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults and children.

ODAC approval of Novartis' CAR T-Cell therapy paves the way for its FDA approval as a commercially available treatment for B-cell ALL.

There was no significant survival difference in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia patients given induction therapy with idarubicin vs high-dose daunorubicin.

A new study in JCO suggests that genetic variations within AML patients with CD33 may predict their response to gemtuzumab ozogamicin.

Approximately half of patients with chronic-phase CML who achieved a sustained deep molecular response with nilotinib were able to discontinue therapy and remain in treatment-free remission through 96 weeks.

A follow-up analysis of the CheckMate-205 clinical trial found that nivolumab was associated with durable response rates in adults with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma after ASCT.

This video reviews the biology of secondary acute myeloid leukemia and highlights some of the latest findings in the treatment of this disease.

Adult patients with early thymic precursor (ETP) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a subgroup of T-cell ALL, could benefit from the use of response-based risk stratification and therapy intensification similar to that used in pediatric patients with ETP-ALL.

Adding the novel CD20 inhibitor ublituximab to ibrutinib offered improved response rates and greater depth of response over ibrutinib alone in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Adding midostaurin to chemotherapy prolonged survival in younger adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia and a FLT3 mutation, according to a randomized trial.

A de-escalation of tyrosine-kinase inhibitor dose was safe in the majority of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia with stable major molecular response.