Terry J. Fry, MD, on ALL: MRD and CAR Therapy
2016 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition
Terry J. Fry, MD, of the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, discusses minimal residual disease–negative complete remissions following anti-CD22 chimeric antigen receptor in children and young adults with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Abstract 650).
Steven Le Gouill, MD, PhD, of Nantes University Hospital and INSERM, discusses study findings from the Lysa/Goelams Group on rituximab maintenance after autologous stem cell transplantation in younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma (Abstract 145).
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses novel treatments for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, touching specifically on the Gilead 115 trial.
Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Anjali Advani, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, discuss study findings on vadastuximab talirine as monotherapy and, in another trial, vadastuximab talirine plus hypomethylating agents in older patients with AML (Abstracts 590, 591).
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, and Jessica Wu, BA, both of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discuss long-term morbidity and mortality experienced by chronic myeloid leukemia patients after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (Abstract 823).
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).