Marie Bleakley, MD, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses data on using naive T-cell depletion of peripheral blood stem cells, which led to very low rates of chronic graft-vs-host-disease and high survival (Abstract 668).
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).
Syed A. Abutalib, MD, of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Nelli Bejanyan, MD, of the University of Minnesota, discuss findings from a study conducted by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research on treatment for ALL patients, with an available donor, undergoing myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in first complete remission (Abstract 684).
Jose F. Leis, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic, and Sagar Lonial, MD, of Emory University, discuss a session on CLL treatment (excluding transplantation): ibrutinib resistance, transformation, and cellular therapy.
Jonathon Cohen, MD, and Sagar Lonial, MD, both of Emory University, discuss study findings on R-CHOP vs DA-EPOCH-R and molecular analysis of untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Abstract 469).
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).
