Umberto Vitolo, MD, of Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital and University, and Sagar Lonial, MD, of Emory University, discuss study findings on obinutuzumab or rituximab plus CHOP in patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Abstract 470).
Martin Schrappe, MD, of Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, discusses in German study findings on reduced intensity delayed intensification in standard-risk patients defined by minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Abstract 4).
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).
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).
Catherine Thieblemont, MD, PhD, of Hôpital Saint-Louis and INSERM, and Julie Vose, MD, MBA, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discuss phase III trial findings on lenalidomide maintenance in elderly patients with DLBCL treated with R-CHOP in the first-line setting (Abstract 471).
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.
