Completely Oral Regimen Effective, Feasible in APL 97% of patients alive and relapse-free at 3 years Dec 10, 2023
Anti-PD-1 Drugs Impress as Frontline Therapy for Early, Unfavorable Hodgkin's 3-year PFS of 99%, OS of 100% with nivolumab-chemo, high response rate with pembrolizumab Dec 16, 2022
New Regimen for GvHD Prophylaxis in Well-Matched Reduced-Intensity Allo-HCT Post-transplant cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, and MMF reduces GvHD without higher relapse risk Dec 14, 2022
'Practice-Changing' Results With Zanubrutinib Versus Ibrutinib in CLL/SLL Significantly longer PFS with second-gen BTK inhibitor in relapsed/refractory disease Dec 14, 2022
C3 Pathway Inhibitor May Change Practice for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Iptacopan improved hemoglobin without transfusion versus current standard of care Dec 14, 2022
High-Dose Chemo, ASCT Improves Survival in Primary CNS Lymphoma European trial is "practice-changing as of today," says U.S. expert Dec 13, 2022
Prolonged Responses in DLBCL Spark Talk of a Cure With Bispecific Antibody Most complete responses lasted 24 months or longer after limited-duration glofitamab Dec 13, 2022
Blinatumomab-Chemo Consolidation a 'New Standard' in MRD-Negative B-ALL Phase III study showed 58% reduction in the risk of death versus chemo alone Dec 13, 2022
Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors Experience Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Data from St. Jude cohort show higher rates of neurocognitive impairment Dec 13, 2022
Heparin Fails to Stop Miscarriages in Women With Inherited Thrombophilia No difference in live birth rates with or without blood thinner Dec 13, 2022
Durable Platelet Response in Immune Thrombocytopenia With Efgartigimod Glycoprotein receptor inhibitor produces four times as many responses as placebo Dec 12, 2022
Black Patients Less Likely to Get Advanced Treatments for PE Also less likely for patients on Medicare and Medicaid Dec 12, 2022
AML Study Suggests Intensive Chemo Unnecessary Before Allo-HCT Similar outcomes if patients went directly to transplant or received intensive salvage first Dec 11, 2022
Talquetamab Offers New Hope in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma Bispecific antibody achieves "incredible" response rates over 70% in heavily pretreated patients Dec 11, 2022
Ibrutinib Makes Its Case for First-Line Treatment in Mantle Cell Lymphoma Standard-of-care autologous transplant fails to prove superior to BTK inhibitor alone Dec 11, 2022
Rigid In-Hospital Diet Offers No Advantage in Patients After HSCT "We should eliminate these silly neutropenic diets," expert says Dec 10, 2022
Targeted Agent Improves Survival in FLT3-Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia OS, EFS improved versus historical controls with addition of midostaurin to chemotherapy Dec 17, 2021
Another Study Reinforces Chemo-Free Therapy for Newly Diagnosed CLL Ibrutinib-rituximab extends PFS versus chemoimmunotherapy, especially in unmutated disease Dec 16, 2021
Less Is More: Rituximab Retreatment Tops Maintenance for Follicular Lymphoma Updated analysis confirms advantages of less aggressive approach to low-burden disease Dec 16, 2021
Gene Therapy Resolves Severe Pain Events in Sickle Cell Disease LentiGlobin also normalized hemoglobin and reduced hemolysis markers Dec 15, 2021
Can Dasatinib Dose Be Halved in Low-Risk CML? Lower dose associated with improved tolerability, similar responses in propensity score analysis Dec 14, 2021
CAR T-Cell Win Streak Stopped by Negative Trial in Aggressive LBCL Patients, trial design, logistics among possible explanations for lack of EFS benefit Dec 14, 2021
Fitusiran Prophylaxis Cuts Bleeding in Hemophilia A/B Monthly infusion vs on-demand bypassing agents effective in patients with or without inhibitors Dec 14, 2021
R-CHOP Toppled in First-Line DLBCL Trial Replacing vincristine with polatuzumab vedotin improved PFS, without adding toxicity Dec 14, 2021
Gentler Regimen Leads to High Response Rate in Older Patients With B-Cell ALL One-year OS rate of 78% with fractionated inotuzumab ozogamicin exceeds 60% historical rate Dec 13, 2021
Ξ²-Thalassemia Patients Go Transfusion-Free With Gene Therapy Treatment with beti-cel is "potentially curative" in this transfusion-dependent group Dec 13, 2021
R2 Maintenance for Elderly MCL Patients Worth the Risk? Longer PFS with addition of lenalidomide to rituximab, but also more toxicity Dec 13, 2021
Venetoclax Regimens for 'Fit' CLL Yield High Undetectable MRD Rates Combined with obinutuzumab, plus or minus ibrutinib, outperforms chemoimmunotherapy Dec 13, 2021
Novel Bispecific Antibody Nets Durable Remissions in Follicular Lymphoma Mosunetuzumab offers "clinically meaningful outcomes" in relapsed/refractory disease Dec 12, 2021
Induction Isatuximab-RVd Combo Boosts MRD Negativity in Multiple Myeloma Half of newly diagnosed, transplant-eligible patients reached minimal residual disease negativity Dec 12, 2021
CAR T-Cell Therapy Makes Strong Case for Earlier Use in Lymphoma Large increases in event-free survival with two CAR T-cell products in second line Dec 11, 2021
Upfront IDH1 Inhibitor Triples Survival in Older AML Median OS for ivosidenib-azacitidine reached 2 years in patients ineligible for intensive therapy Dec 11, 2021
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Bispecific Antibodies Impress in Refractory Disease Odronextamab, epcoritamab surpass 90% response threshold in early trials Dec 11, 2020
Chemo-Free Combo Boosts PFS in First-Line CLL PI3K-delta-based regimen also topped chemoimmunotherapy in relapsed setting Dec 08, 2020
Novel Agent Active in Refractory CML Asciminib doubles molecular response versus bosutinib after two or more prior lines of therapy Dec 08, 2020
Gene Therapy Stops Bleeding in Hemophilia Single injection had durable effectiveness, study showed Dec 08, 2020
Fixed-Duration Ibrutinib-Venetoclax Promising in First-Line CLL DFS at 1 year reaches 95% in patients with undetectable MRD Dec 06, 2020
CRISPR-Based Tx Offers Hope in Tough-to-Treat Blood Disorders Success with investigational use of gene editing in sickle cell disease, beta-thalassemia Dec 06, 2020
Blood Cancers and COVID-19: 'A Medically Vulnerable' Group Patients with hematologic malignancies and SARS-CoV-2 face higher risks for infection, death Dec 06, 2020
JAK Inhibitor Wins in Second-Line Chronic GVHD Twice as many patients achieved a response at week 24 Dec 05, 2020