Julie Vose, MD, MBA, and Mhairi Copland, MB, ChB, PhD, on CML: Data From the British DESTINY Study
2016 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Mhairi Copland, MB, ChB, PhD, of the Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, discuss decreasing the dose of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML patients with stable molecular responses (Abstract 938).
Laurie H. Sehn, MD, MPH, of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, discusses agents in the pipeline for follicular lymphoma, including drugs targeting the immune microenvironment, novel monoclonal antibodies, and emerging immunotherapeutics.
Joshua Brody, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, summarizes important data on passive and active immunotherapy (Abstracts 1213, 1214, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218).
Steven Le Gouill, MD, PhD, of Nantes University Hospital and INSERM, discusses in French study findings from the Lysa/Goelams Group on rituximab maintenance after autologous stem cell transplantation in younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma (Abstract 145).
Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic, discusses phase I study findings on nivolumab in combination with ipilimumab for relapsed or refractory disease (Abstract 183).
Martin Schrappe, MD, of Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, discusses study findings on reduced intensity delayed intensification in standard-risk patients defined by minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Abstract 4).