The European Hematology Association 2024 Hybrid Congress (EHA2024)

In older patients with untreated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), the addition of the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor acalabrutinib to bendamustine and rituximab (ABR) conferred a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) with a favourable trend for overall survival (OS), findings from the phase III ECHO trial have shown.

In the phase III ASC4FIRST study, asciminib – the first BCR::ABL1 inhibitor to Specifically Target the ABL Myristoyl Pocket (STAMP) – trumped all investigator-selected tyrosine kinase inhibitors (IS-TKIs; imatinib, nilotinib, dasatinib, and bosutinib) for the treatment of newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia in chronic phase (Ph+ CML-CP).

The addition of glofitamab – a CD20xCD3 T-cell engaging bispecific antibody (BsAb) – to gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GemOx) chemotherapy improves survival in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (R/R DLBCL) who have received at least one prior line of systemic therapy and are ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant, findings from the phase III STARGLO trial have shown.

In untreated myelofibrosis, using navitoclax in combination with ruxolitinib appears to result in a twofold increase in the number of patients experiencing spleen volume shrinkage, regardless of prognosis, according to updated data from the phase III TRANSFORM-1 trial.

In patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) who received at least one prior line of therapy (LOT), treatment with belantamab mafodotin (belamaf) plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone (BPD) results in statistically significant and clinically meaningful progressive-free survival (PFS) compared with pomalidomide plus bortezomib and dexamethasone (PVD), as shown in the DREAMM-8 study.