ASH 2021 | ELARA: Tisa-cel in follicular lymphoma
Nathan Fowler, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, provides an update on the Phase II ELARA trial (NCT03568461), which assessed tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel), a CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL). Tisa-cel improved progression-free survival across different subtypes of FL, including patients who progressed within 2 years (POD24). Patients who received tisa-cel in an outpatient setting also were less likely to require hospitalization, highlighting the ability for CAR T-cell therapies to be administered in an outpatient setting for patients with a low-risk disease. This interview took place at the 63rd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition congress in Atlanta, GA.
