Ibrutinib, chemoimmunotherapy combination helps young CLL patients
Young patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can enjoy long remissions on the drug ibrutinib, but must stay on it indefinitely to keep the cancer in remission. A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers suggests that a 2.5-year regimen involving ibrutinib and chemoimmunotherapy can provide deep, and lasting remissions of the disease.The findings, to be presented at the...
Young patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can enjoy long remissions on the drug ibrutinib, but must stay on it indefinitely to keep the cancer in remission. A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers suggests that a 2.5-year regimen involving ibrutinib and chemoimmunotherapy can provide deep, and lasting remissions of the disease.
The findings, to be presented at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, update the early results of this study that were published in 2019 study of the regimen in 85 patients with previously untreated CLL. Nearly all the patients were in remission at the 16.5-month mark; the updated data confirm those benefits to be continuing now at a median of 40.3 months.
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