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Located on the Upper East Side of New York City, the Lymphoma Program at Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork Presbyterian Hospital is internationally recognized for our efforts to enable patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin disease and related disorders to have the best possible clinical outcome, including cure when possible.

Clinical Trials or Standard Treatment? Understanding Options for Blood Cancers

On March 18, 2015 Lymphoma Program Director, Dr. John Leonard presented a brief program with the LLS entitled, “Clinical Trials or Standard Treatment? Understanding Options for Blood Cancer“. The program covered:

  • The role of clinical trials in blood cancer treatment
  • How clinical trials are designed.
  • How to determine the best treatment options for patients
  • Talking to your healthcare team about treatment options

An audio recording of the presentation is available along with program slides and and a transcript of the presentation.

ASCO 2015 – WCMC Related Abstracts

In two weeks the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) will take place in Chicago, bringing oncology professionals together from around the world. Below are the abstracts Lymphoma Program team members were involved in whole or in part to be presented at ASCO 2015:

CLL
Long-term follow-up of a phase Ib trial of idelalisib (IDELA) in combination with chemoimmunotherapy (CIT) in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory (R/R) CLL including pts with del17p/TP53 mutation

Dose adherence and baseline exposure analysis of the ibrutinib 420 mg dose administered to patients with previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Follicular Lymphoma
A phase III study of ibrutinib in combination with either bendamustine and rituximab (BR) or rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) in patients with previously treated follicular lymphoma or marginal zone lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
AUGMENT: A randomized, phase 3 trial in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) to compare efficacy and safety of lenalidomide plus rituximab (R2) versus placebo plus rituximab 

Bendamustine and rituximab and lenalidomide (BRR) in the treatment of relapsed and refractory low grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL): Final results of phase 1 study NCCTG N1088/ALLIANCE 

Safety of idelalisib in B-cell malignancies: Integrated analysis of eight clinical trials

A phase I/II trial of the combination of romidepsin and lenalidomide in patients with relapsed/refractory lymphoma and myeloma: Activity in T-cell lymphoma 

Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia
Idelalisib monotherapy and durable responses in patients with relapsed or refractory Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia (WM)

Please look to this space for further updates about developments in ASCO 2015.

REDLAMP 4: Circulating Tumor DNA & CT Monitoring for Untreated DLBCL – A Correlative Biomarker Study

First-line chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is given with curative intent, but is not always effective. In this video, Dr. Peter Martin discusses the implications of a recently published study in Lancet Oncology, which aimed to discover whether a blood test capable of detecting circulating tumor DNA might predict treatment success or failure. In the future, blood tests may be added to, or even replace, current standard surveillance methods like CT scans or PET scans.

Previous #REDLAMP entries can be viewed on our Youtube channel.

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