Leukemia & lymphoma
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Leukemia & lymphoma · Sep 2018
ReviewCAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma: where are we now and where are we headed?
While recent progress has been made in the management of multiple myeloma, it remains a highly fatal malignancy especially among patients with relapsed-refractory disease. Immunotherapy with adoptive T cells targeting myeloma-associated antigens are at various stages of development and have brought about a new hope for cure. ⋯ The recent results from CAR T cells targeting B cell maturation antigen are encouraging but eventual resistance to the CAR T cell therapies remain problematic. With newer approaches in therapies for multiple myeloma, the role of transplantation is evolved to form a platform for T cell therapies.
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Leukemia & lymphoma · Aug 2018
ReviewAxicabtagene ciloleucel, a first-in-class CAR T cell therapy for aggressive NHL.
The development of clinically functional chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is the culmination of multiple advances over the last three decades. Axicabtagene ciloleucel (formerly KTE-C19) is an anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapy in development for patients with refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including transformed follicular lymphoma (TFL) and primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma (PMBCL). ⋯ Main acute toxicities are cytokine release syndrome and neurologic events. Axicabtagene ciloleucel holds promise for the treatment of patients with CD19-positive malignancies, including refractory DLBCL.
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Leukemia & lymphoma · Jul 2018
ReviewAnti-CD123 chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CART): an evolving treatment strategy for hematological malignancies, and a potential ace-in-the-hole against antigen-negative relapse.
Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T-cells (CART) are a potent and targeted immunotherapy which have induced remissions in some patients with chemotherapy refractory or relapsed (RR) hematologic malignancies. Hundreds of patients have now been treated worldwide with anti-CD19 CART cells, with complete response rates of up to 90%. CART therapy has a unique toxicity profile, and unfortunately not all responses are durable. ⋯ Emerging data indicate that targeting an alternative antigen instead of, or as well as CD19, could improve CART cell efficacy and reduce antigen-negative relapse. Other strategies include the addition of other immune-based therapies. This review explores the rationale, pre-clinical data and currently investigative strategies underway for CART therapy targeting the myeloid and lymphoid stem/progenitor antigen CD123.
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Leukemia & lymphoma · Jul 2018
Low dose anti-thymocyte globulin reduces chronic graft-versus-host disease incidence rates after matched unrelated donor transplantation.
Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is often added to hematopoietic stem cell transplant conditioning regimens to prevent graft rejection and reduce graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Doses used in retrospective and prospective clinical trials have ranged from 2.5 to 20 mg/kg with rates of grade II-IV acute GVHD and chronic GVHD up to 40 and 60%, respectively. ⋯ One-year cumulative incidence of extensive chronic GVHD was 9.6% in the MUD group versus 26.6% in the MRD group (p = .042). Our analysis supports the use of low dose ATG in MUD transplantation as an effective therapy to prevent chronic GVHD.