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The new immunotherapy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells has demonstrated the ability to increase clinical remission in multiple myeloma patients by targeting the B-cell maturation protein that participates in disease progression.

The FDA has granted acalabrutinib a breakthrough therapy designation for patients with previously-treated mantle cell lymphoma.

Saad Z. Usmani, MD, discusses recent multiple myeloma data, the potential role of CAR T-cell therapy, and what therapeutic advancements the community can expect in the remainder of 2017.

Treatment with CD19 chimeric antigen receptor-modified T-cell therapy induced a high response rate in patients with high-risk, ibrutinib-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Sattva S. Neelapu, MD, discusses the latest results for axicabtagene ciloleucel (KTE-C19) for transplant-ineligible patients with relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the CAR T-cell therapy’s potential to be a new standard of care.

A study on long-term remission of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) shows that Kite Pharma’s anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell treatment resulted in remission for up to 56 months.

The Sanford Project: T-Rex Study has reached its midway point through a Phase II, fast-tracked trial.

Ezra Cohen, MD, discusses anti–PD-1/PD-L1 combination regimens in HNSCC, the potential for CAR T-cell therapy, and remaining challenges with immunotherapy in the field.

ARCHER 1050, the first phase 3 head-to-head study of epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibition, has produced results that demonstrate statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement with dacomitinib compared with gefitinib (Iressa) as first-line therapy for non—small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR-activating mutations.

ODAC approval of Novartis' CAR T-Cell therapy paves the way for its FDA approval as a commercially available treatment for B-cell ALL.

Bajil J. Shah, MD, discusses the significant impact CAR T-cell therapy can have on the treatment landscape for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

CTL019 was unanimously approved by FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) for the treatment of children and young adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Novartis’ chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for treating pediatric leukemia is on the cusp of being the first FDA-approved gene therapy, which will lead to new developments and utilizations of CAR-T therapy for treating other advanced blood cancers.

Proton-beam therapy was found to be safe for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer in the first prospective registry study of the therapy, with only a small number of high-grade toxicities.

A 70-gene expression score can identify women with indolent breast cancer at “ultralow” risk, according to a new study. Women with such a score have extremely low risk of disease-specific mortality over 20 years without systemic therapy.

Eric Smith, MD, PhD, discusses the response to CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in B-cell ALL.

Sarepta Therapeutics has announced a new collaboration with Genethon for gene therapy research in efforts to develop new Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatments.

Neural stem cell therapy combined with a common cold virus may be a highly effective way of improving outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed malignant gliomas.

Adult patients with early thymic precursor (ETP) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a subgroup of T-cell ALL, could benefit from the use of response-based risk stratification and therapy intensification similar to that used in pediatric patients with ETP-ALL.

CTL019, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, demonstrated high response rates and a manageable safety profile in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed and/or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Results from the phase III Myeloma XI study showed that patients with myeloma had deeper responses after induction and after allo-stem cell transplantation with outpatient-delivered quadruplet therapy than with sequential immunomodulatory triplet combinations.

All patients with multiple myeloma in a phase I study showed a response following treatment with an active dose of bb2121, an investigational anti–BCMA CAR T-cell construct.

Investigators reported the characterization of early clinical and serum biomarkers that may identify specific patients with ALL being treated with 19-28z chimeric antigen receptor T cells needing an early intervention to mitigate the development of severe neurotoxicity.

No evidence of adverse events or significant safety concerns has surfaced.

Surgical resection, including cytoreductive nephrectomy, remains the standard of care for most patients with renal cell carcinoma, but many patients will have a recurrence, and could benefit from additional therapy.

Bijal D. Shah, MD, discusses the current treatment paradigm of MCL, what therapies are moving through the pipeline at a rapid rate, the potential benefit with CAR T-cell therapy, and pivotal biomarker studies currently being conducted.

Three randomized trials of SBRT vs surgical resection closed due to poor accrual, but an analysis of patients treated in these trials suggested that SBRT might even be superior to surgery. New trials are underway to further assess the question of whether SBRT can be the definitive treatment for early-stage NSCLC instead of surgery.

Sarah Rutherford, MD, discusses rare DLBCL subtypes, ongoing research to improve outcomes for these patient populations, and the potential role of CAR T-cell therapy.