FDA Approved Ibrutinib for Relapsed, Refractory Marginal Zone Lymphoma: Approval for the use of
ibrutinib in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma was granted by the US Food and Drug Administration for those patients who require systemic therapy who were treated with at least one anti-CD20 therapy.
Not exact matches
Patients
in the trial had been on
ibrutinib for a minimum of six months and had not achieved a complete response when they received an infusion of engineered cells split over three consecutive days.
In March 2016, Penn researchers published a study in Blood that showed long - term ibrutinib treatment reverses the dysfunction of T cells in CLL and that combining CAR therapy with ibrutinib enhanced engineered T cell proliferation in mic
In March 2016, Penn researchers published a study
in Blood that showed long - term ibrutinib treatment reverses the dysfunction of T cells in CLL and that combining CAR therapy with ibrutinib enhanced engineered T cell proliferation in mic
in Blood that showed long - term
ibrutinib treatment reverses the dysfunction of T cells
in CLL and that combining CAR therapy with ibrutinib enhanced engineered T cell proliferation in mic
in CLL and that combining CAR therapy with
ibrutinib enhanced engineered T cell proliferation
in mic
in mice.
The team will present on the first 10 patients
in the trial, each of whom had been taking
ibrutinib for at least six months but had not achieved a complete remission.
Jennifer A. Woyach, M.D., of Ohio State University, Columbus, and coauthors described the characteristics of patients who discontinued
ibrutinib therapy and their outcomes
in a group of 308 patients participating
in four trials at a single institution.
The results suggest that
ibrutinib restored T cell activity
in the patients.
«Reasons for
ibrutinib therapy discontinuation
in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.»
Longer follow - up will reveal the durability of these results, the authors said, and may support the evaluation of a first - line approach with
ibrutinib and CAR therapy
in an effort to remove the need for chronic therapy.
An analysis based on disease subtype showed that
ibrutinib produced complete or partial responses
in 37 percent (14 of 38) of patients with ABC DLBCL but only 5 percent (1 of 20) of patients with GCB DLBCL.
For example, a drug called
ibrutinib has been tested
in clinical trials to treat an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, diffuse large B - cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
The targeted agent
ibrutinib has shown a high response rate
in both treatment - naive and previously treated, relapsed, refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients older than 65.
Venetoclax has durable clinical activity
in patients with relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia whose disease progressed during or after
ibrutinib therapy.