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The FDA has approved selinexor for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), not otherwise specified, including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least two lines of systemic therapy.

The National Medical Products Administration in China has approved pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 as determined by an approved test, following disease progression on 1 prior line of systemic therapy.

The connections between cancer and HIV/AIDS became clear relatively early in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and continue to this day. Not only were opportunistic infections present in a majority of HIV-infected patients who met the initial diagnostic criteria for AIDS, but several cancer types were far more prevalent as well. While there is still much to understand before HIV is fully conquered, we have already learned a great deal about the pathobiology of this virus that has helped advanced immune-oncological technologies and led to the development of increasingly effective gene therapy delivery systems.

Scientists at the Trinity College Dublin and University College London developed a new gene therapy approach that has the potential to treat a group of eye diseases known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), according to research published in Stem Cell Reports.

Patients with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia and B-cell lymphoma who received the anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy FMC63-28Z experienced highly durable rates of remission, according to long-term data from a phase 1/2 study.

Known as a gene therapy pioneer, Zaia has spent almost 40 years at City of Hope, in Duarte, California. He was first drawn by the promise of studying cytomegalovirus. Over the decades, his groundbreaking research has encompassed HIV/AIDS, cellular gene transfer therapy, immunotherapy, bispecific antibodies, and now hyperimmune globulin for workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Investigators reported in Lancet Oncology that second-line treatments are needed in small cell lung cancer, as few options exist for these patients once first-line therapy fails.

Selected abstracts from the American Diabetes Association's 80th Scientific Sessions discuss when to add injectable therapy, how patients who switched to semaglutide lost more weight and gained glycemic control, and offered results from an early-phase study on a monoclonal antibody that may preserve B-cell function.

Patients with relapsed/refractory T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia face poor outcomes, and are generally treated by salvage therapy followed by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. A new study suggests an optimal option for salvage therapy.

Jesus G. Berdeja, MD, of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute discussed the CARTITUDE-1 study that examined CAR-T cell therapy to treat patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

Treatment with the CAR T-cell product lisocabtagene maraleucel led to high response rates, with durable complete responses, in transplant-ineligible patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma who had poor prognostic features.

Data show the therapy’s positive safety and expression results from a small number of clinical trial participants with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2E out to 1 year.

Omid Hamid, MD, highlights key abstracts in melanoma as they relate to the optimal duration and sequencing of checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive cell therapy, and subgroups of patients with mucosal melanoma and brain metastases.

The CAR T-cell therapy continued to demonstrate deep and durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

This OncLive® webinar will focus on the delivery of cellular therapeutics, particularly chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T- Cells in High-Risk Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Join us Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 7 PM EST.

The BCMA-targeting CAR T-cell therapy yielded a response in73% of patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Nirav Niranjan Shah, MD, spoke about the use of autologous stem cell transplant in patients with relapsed, chemosensitive DLBCL during the era of CAR T-cell therapy.

The Data and Safety Monitoring Board has advised that the phase 3 DUBLIN-3 trial of the antineoplastic agent plinabulin in patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who have progressed on standard-of-care therapy can continue without any modifications.

China's National Medical Products Administration has approved zanubrutinib (Brukinsa) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma who have received at least 1 prior therapy, as well as for the treatment of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least 1 prior therapy.

Jia Ruan, MD, PhD, discusses the current risk-stratification parameters and the evolution of treatment from high-intensity chemoimmunotherapy to novel therapy in mantle cell lymphoma.

The pharmacodynamic profile of KTE-X19, an autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, was associated with efficacy and treatment-related neurological events among patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma treated within the ZUMA-2 trial.

Treatment with pembrolizumab improved progression-free survival after subsequent therapy for patients with PD-L1–positive, relapsed/refractory head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy ALLO-501, paired with the monoclonal antibody ALLO-647, demonstrated clinical responses and manageable toxicity in patients with pretreated large B-cell and follicular lymphomas in the Phase I ALPHA trial.

The allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy ALLO-501, paired with the monoclonal antibody ALLO-647, demonstrated clinical responses and manageable toxicity in patients with pretreated large B-cell and follicular lymphomas.

The chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, JNJ-4528, continued to demonstrate deep and durable responses in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to updated findings from the phase 1b/2 CARTITUDE-1 (NCT03548207) trial.

Patients with chemotherapy-naïve, locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who were treated in the phase 2 CITYSCAPE trial with tiragolumab, an inhibitor of the immunomodulatory receptor TIGIT, plus and anti–PD-L1 agent demonstrated better efficacy versus single-agent checkpoint inhibitor therapy alone.

Tisagenlecleucel led to clinically meaningful and durable improvements in health-related quality of life in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who achieved a complete or partial response to the CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy in the phase 2 JULIET trial.

Concurrent frontline therapy with cladribine and rituximab led to a significant improvement in minimal residual disease–free complete responses versus cladribine followed by delayed rituximab in patients with hairy cell leukemia.

The therapy is for patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline somatic homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene–mutated cancer or for those whose cancer has progressed after prior treatment with enzalutamide or abiraterone.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.