The website Healio has a new video series called "Expert Insight on Follicular Lymphoma."
The series features videos from Dr. Joshua Brody from Mount Sinai in New York City, and expert in blood cancers.
The videos are short -- under 3 minutes each -- and cover some very recent topics that are important to FL patients and the doctors who treat them. They include topics like recent clinical trials and approvals for FL treatments, advice for doctors who will give CAR-T to patients, significant unmet needs for FL patients. (Like many experts, Dr. Brody thinks one of the most significant unmet needs is finding ways to treat EFS24 patients -- those who relapse with 24 months of treatment).
It's an interesting series -- again, not really any new insights, but if you're looking for a good sense of where we are with Follicular Lymphoma treatments, it's a pretty good summary.
Thanks Bob.
ReplyDeleteThe first video "Exciting news, treatments in the lymphoma pipeline" was particularly relevant to my wife who got a CR from CAR-T only to have a small residual, localized FL discovered at her 6-month checkup. She immediately started into the NIH ViPOR (Venetoclax, Ibrutinib, Prednisone, Obinutuzumab, and Revlimid) clinical trial (three 3-week cycle). At the end of cycle 6, labs, CT and PET showed she is in CR. It was a rough trial with a lot of manageable side effects (AFIB, high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea, low platelets, high creatinine).
There is a good ViPOR article at: https://ccr.cancer.gov/news/article/first-in-human-clinical-trial-evaluates-safety-of-combination-therapy-to-treat-b-cell-lymphomas
William