Hagop Kantarjian, MD, on Blinatumomab in Precursor B-Cell ALL

2014 ASH Annual Meeting

Hagop Kantarjian, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, offers his thoughts on abstract 379, “BLAST: A Confirmatory, Single-Arm, Phase II Study of Blinatumomab, a Bispecific T-Cell Engager (BiTE) Antibody Construct, in Patients With Minimal Residual Disease B-Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia,” and abstract 3704, “An Evaluation of Molecular Response in a Phase II Open-Label, Multicenter Confirmatory Study in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory B-Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Receiving Treatment With the BiTE Antibody Construct Blinatumomab,” presented by Nicola Gökbuget, MD.

Bertrand Coiffier, MD, PhD, on the Phase III LyMa Trial

Bertrand Coiffier, MD, PhD, of Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, offers his thoughts on abstract 146, “Rituximab Maintenance vs Wait and Watch After Four Courses of R-DHAP Followed By Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Previously Untreated Young Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma: First Interim Analysis of the Phase III Prospective LyMa Trial, a Lysa Study,” presented by Steven Le Gouill, MD, PhD.

Hematologic Malignancies

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Keith McCrae, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, offers his thoughts on abstract 4848, “Implementation of a Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Management Program Reduces the Cost of Diagnostic Testing and Pharmacologic Treatment in an Academic Medical Center,” presented by Caroline Dupre Vaughn, RN.

Lymphoma

James O. Armitage, MD, FACP, FRCP, and Bertrand Coiffier, MD, PhD

James O. Armitage, MD, FACP, FRCP, and Bertrand Coiffier, MD, PhD, on Managing Lymphoma: The French Perspective

James O. Armitage, MD, FACP, FRCP, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Bertrand Coiffier, MD, PhD, of the Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud discuss three French studies on rituximab maintenance vs wait and watch after R-DHAP in mantle cell lymphoma; R-CHOP with or without radiotherapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; and romidepsin and CHOP in peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

Leukemia

Linda J. Burns, MD

Linda J. Burns, MD, on CAR T-Cell Therapy in ALL

2014 ASH President Linda J. Burns, MD, of the University of Minnesota, offers her thoughts on abstract 380, “T Cells Engineered With a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Targeting CD19 (CTL019) Have Long-Term Persistence and Induce Durable Remissions in Children with Relapsed, Refractory ALL,” presented by Stephan A. Grupp, MD, PhD.

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Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes

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James O. Armitage, MD, FACP, FRCP, and Richard M. Stone, MD, on Clinical Trial Results for AML, MDS, and CMML Treatment

James O. Armitage, MD, FACP, FRCP, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Richard M. Stone, MD of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss three clinical trials: different doses of daunorubicin for AML; comparing azacitidine plus lenolidomide to vorinostat vs azacitidine monotherapy in MDS and CMML; and sorafenib vs placebo in addition to standard treatment for AML.

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