Christian Buske, MD from the University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany discusses his highlights from the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. Chemotherapy-free approaches are becoming more dominant in the field and appear to be effective in several indolent B-cell lymphomas. For chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), impressive results have been shown by using chemotherapy for debulking, and treating the patient with a combination of the BCL-2 inhibitor ABT-199 (venetoclax) and the second-generation anti-CD20 antibody, obinutuzumab. In follicular lymphoma, the PI3K inhibitor copanlisib, as a single agent, is able to induce response rates of approximately 60% in relapsed/refractory patients. In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), chemotherapy is a backbone of treatment but Prof. Buske points out new developments with the new antibody MOR208 targeting CD19 that shows promise in combination with lenalidomide.
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