2015 ASH Annual Meeting
Global Perspectives on the Integration of Biosimilars Into Oncology Practice
Dr. Robert Rifkin, Medical Director of Biosimilars at US Oncology Research, moderates a roundtable discussion on Global Perspectives on the Integration of Biosimilars into Oncology Practice, held in c...
Global Perspectives on the Integration of Biosimilars Into Oncology Practice
Dr. Robert Rifkin, Medical Director of Biosimilars at US Oncology Research, moderates a roundtable discussion on Global Perspectives on the Integration of Biosimilars into Oncology Practice, held in c...
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, and John F. Gerecitano, MD, PhD, on Venetoclax for NHL
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and John F. Gerecitano, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discuss a phase I study of venetoclax monotherapy in pati...
David Henry, MD, on Anticoagulants: Expert Perspective
David Henry, MD, of Pennsylvania Hospital, discusses new advances with direct oral anticoagulants, or DOACs.
Sagar Lonial, MD, and Alessandra Tedeschi, MD, on CLL/SLL: Results From the RESONATE-2 Trial
Sagar Lonial, MD, of the Emory University School of Medicine, and Alessandra Tedeschi, MD, of the Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda Cà Granda, discuss this international study of ibrutinib vs chlorambucil ...
Sagar Lonial, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: How I Treat Newly Diagnosed Patients
Sagar Lonial, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine, summarizes his educational session on this vital topic.
Sagar Lonial, MD, and Torben Plesner, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Updated Results of the Phase I/II GEN503 Study
Sagar Lonial, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine, and Torben Plesner, MD, of Vejle Hospital, discuss the latest findings on the use of daratumumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexameth...
Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, on MDS and CMML Study Results: SWOG S1117
Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses an additional analysis of a phase II study of azacitidine combined with lenalidomide or with vorinostat vs azacitidine monotherapy in higher-...
Kieron Dunleavy, MD, on Burkitt Lymphoma: Preliminary Report of the DA-EPOCH-R Trial
Kieron Dunleavy, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, discusses a multi-center trial that set out to validate the effectiveness of DA-EPOCH-R-based therapy and whether a risk-adapted approach using t...
James N. Kochenderfer, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Results of a First-in-Humans Clinical Trial
James N. Kochenderfer, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, reports on remissions of multiple myeloma during a trial of T cells expressing an anti-B-cell maturation antigen chimeric antigen receptor ...
James Foran, MD, on Clofarabine for AML: Clinical Trial Results of ECOG-ACRIN and ALFA/Clara
James Foran, MD, of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, discusses two key studies on clofarabine: as a single agent for induction and postremission therapy in newly diagnosed AML, and as the basis for cons...
Nathan Hale Fowler, MD, on Follicular Lymphoma: Ibrutinib Plus Rituximab Study Results
Nathan Hale Fowler, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a multicenter trial in which ibrutinib plus rituximab was administered to treatment-naive patients with follicular lymphoma (Abstract 47...
Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, on AML: Safety and Efficacy of Guadecitabine
Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a study that compared efficacy and safety results of using 5-day and 10-day regimens of a novel hypomethylating agent in 103 treatment-...
S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Newly Approved Drugs
S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, summarizes a special FDA-sponsored session on the three myeloma drugs that were approved this November––daratumumab, ixazomib, and elotozumab––and their cu...
Alok A. Khorana, MD, on Preventing Venous Thromboembolism
Alok A. Khorana, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discusses study results on the use of dalteparin for thromboprophylaxis in cancer patients at high risk for the condition (Abstract 427).
Margaret O'Donnell, MD, on Novel Approaches to Treatment for Older AML Patients
Margaret O'Donnell, MD, of the City of Hope National Medical Center, summarizes a session on this vital topic (Session 613).
Craig H. Moskowitz, MD, on NHL: Early Study Results on Denintuzumab Mafodotin
Craig H. Moskowitz, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a phase I study of an anti-CD19 monoclonal antibody used in relapsed/refactory B-lineage non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Abstract 182...
Simon Rule, MD, on MCL: Ibrutinib vs Temsirolimus
Simon Rule, MD, of Derriford Hospital, discusses results from an international, multicenter study in patients with previously treated mantle cell lymphoma (Abstract 469).
Stephen J. Schuster, MD, on CD19+ Lymphomas: Sustained Remissions in Relapsed or Refractory Disease
Stephen J. Schuster, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the findings of a study of chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells directed against CD19 in patients with relapsed or refractor...
Laurie H. Sehn, MD, MPH, on Classical HL: New Findings on the Need for Radiotherapy
Laurie H. Sehn, MD, MPH, of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, discusses a study that showed patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma, with a negative PET-scan following ABVD chemother...
John Leonard, MD, on DLBCL: Results From the Pyramid Trial
John Leonard, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses this phase II study of R-CHOP with or without bortezomib in patients with untreated non-germinal center B-cell-like subtype diffuse large ...
S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, on Advances in Myeloma
S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, summarizes his education session on the evolving diagnostic criteria for myeloma, which focused on smoldering disease and when it becomes an “open flame.”
David Henry, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Expert Perspective
David Henry, MD, of Pennsylvania Hospital, discusses the exciting developments in multiple myeloma treatment, including the three new drugs approved for the disease in November 2015.
Andrew J. Davies, MRCP, PhD, on DLBCL: The Remodl-B Clinical Trial Results
Andrew J. Davies, MRCP, PhD, of the Cancer Research UK Centre, University of Southampton, discusses a study of targeted treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma based on real-time gene-expression p...
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, and Stephan Stilgenbauer, MD, PhD on CLL and Venetoclax: Clinical Trial Results
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stephan Stilgenbauer, MD, PhD, of the University of Ulm, discuss this late-breaking abstract on venetoclax monotherapy and d...
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, and David Straus, MD, on Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Results: CALGB/Alliance 50604
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and David Straus, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discuss the initial results of the U.S. Intergroup Trial of response...
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, and Rafat Abonour, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: The Path to a Cure
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Rafat Abonour, MD, of Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, discuss the session that he chaired on the question of whether rese...
David A. Williams, MD, on the Goals and Highlights of ASH 2015
Outgoing ASH President, David A. Williams, MD, of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Hospital, gives an overview of this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, on CLL: Idelalisib Plus Bendamustine and Rituximab
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a late-breaking abstract on the superiority of this three-drug combination compared to bendamustine and rituximab alon...
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, on ALL Overall Survival: Academic vs Nonacademic Hospitals
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discusses a retrospective analysis of data on the overall survival of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when initial therapy...
Sébastien Maury, MD, on ALL: Results of the Graall-R 2005 Study (French Language Version) 
Sébastien Maury, MD, of the Hôpital Henri Mondor, discusses in French this study in which adding rituximab improved the outcome of adult patients with CD20-positive, Ph-negative B-cell precursor acute...
Sébastien Maury, MD, on ALL: Results of the Graall-R 2005 Study
Sébastien Maury, MD, of the Hôpital Henri Mondor, discusses this study in which adding rituximab improved the outcome of adult patients with CD20-positive, Ph-negative B-cell precursor acute lymphobla...
James N. Kochenderfer, MD, on Preventing Progressive Malignancy After Stem Cell Transplant
James N. Kochenderfer, MD, of the National Cancer Institute, discusses a clinical trial of allogeneic T cells expressing an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor, which caused remissions of B-cell cance...
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, and Cameron J. Turtle, MBBS, PhD, on B-Cell NHL and CLL: Clinical Trial Results on T-Cell Therapy
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Cameron J. Turtle, MBBS, PhD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discuss anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor-modified...
Jonathon Cohen, MD, on Deferring MCL Treatment
Jonathon B. Cohen, MD, of the Winship Cancer Institute, discusses a study that used the National Cancer Data Base to study the impact on overall survival of deferring treatment in patients with newly ...
Richard M. Stone, MD, on AML: Results of the RATIFY Trial
Richard M. Stone, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses this international prospective study on the survival impact of midostaurin, a multikinase inhibitor, in newly diagnosed acute myelo...
Olivier Casasnovas, MD, on Advanced-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma: Interim Analysis of the Lysa Study (French Language Version)
Olivier Casasnovas, MD, of Hôpital Le Bocage, discusses in French a phase III study comparing an early PET-driven treatment de-escalation to a not PET-monitored strategy in patients with advanced Hodg...
Olivier Casasnovas, MD, on Advanced-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma: Interim Analysis of the Lysa Study
Olivier Casasnovas, MD, of Hôpital Le Bocage, discusses a phase III study comparing an early PET-driven treatment de-escalation to a not PET-monitored strategy in patients with advanced Hodgkin lympho...
Ronald Go, MD, on Survival in NHL and Treatment Facility Volume
Ronald Go, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, discusses a study that used the National Cancer Data Base to determine the extent to which the number of non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated annually in a facility...
