Blood Cancer Talks

Oncology / Hematology

Drs. Ashwin Kishtagari, Rajshekhar Chakraborty, and Edward Cliff discuss the management of blood cancers and hematology in their podcast, Blood Cancer Talks. The twice-monthly episodes feature discussions with experts in the field.


CLL updates from SOHO23

Hi friends,

There was a great CLL session at SOHO’s annual meeting in Houston this week. Highlights included a debate between Othman Al-Sawaf from Cologne and Nicole Lamanna from Columbia regarding fixed duration versus MRD guided treatment following venetoclax-obinutuzumab, and a thoughtful overview of the history and development of FCR (subtitled ‘a requiem to FCR’) from John Seymour, from Melbourne. Check out some of the most interesting links below, including our own podcast on newly-diagnosed CLL with Nitin Jain from MD Anderson.

Best wishes,

Eddie, Raj and Ashwin


Articles
  • Mashup Score: 3

    Key Points. Patients (pts) with mutated IGHV (IGHV-M) have favorable very long-term PFS after FCR, although late relapse (>10 years) rarely occursCumulative

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    • John Seymour from Australia highlighted at #SOHO23 that, for the right patient - that is, a patient <65 years with IGVH mutated and TP53 wild type disease - FCR can still be a valuable treatment option, with a cure fraction of about 50% at 15 years. tMN risk is about 2%.

  • Mashup Score: 7

    In this episode, we take a deep dive into the management of newly diagnosed CLL with Dr. Nitin Jain from MD Anderson and discuss key clinical trials in the past decade that has shaped the current treatment paradigm.

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    • Nitin Jain from MD Anderson Cancer Center gave a great round up in the 'next questions' session at #SOHO23 focusing on next questions in CLL. Check out our episode with Dr Jain on Blood Cancer Talks where we chatted about updates in newly-diagnosed CLL.

  • Mashup Score: 0

    Patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma for whom treatment has failed with both Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor and venetoclax have few treatment options and poor outcomes.

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    • Tanya Siddiqi from City of Hope presented data from the TRANSCEND CLL 04 study of liso-cel CAR T-cells in patients with relapsed/refractory CLL at #SOHO23. Among 49 patients who had progressed following both BTKi and venetoclax and were treated at dose level 2, 18% achieved a CR and 24% achieved a PR. Intriguingly some patients with stable disease also achieved uMRD - a group in whom further investigation is required.