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ASH 2021: Matching-Adjusted Indirect Treatment Comparison (MAIC) of Acalabrutinib Alone or in Combination with Obinutuzumab Versus Ibrutinib or Venetoclax Plus Obinutuzumab in Patients with Treatment-Naïve Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Acalabrutinib (A) and ibrutinib (I) are both highly effective Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors approved for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and given as continuous treatments until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Dr. Neil Kay and Dr. Sameer Parikh on Early-Stage Treatment with Acalabrutinib for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

In this interview, our own Dr. Brian Koffman spoke with Dr. Neil Kay, a Professor of Medicine and a hematologist at Mayo Clinic, and Dr. Sameer Parikh, a hematologist, an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. They discussed why early-stage patients usually do not receive treatment and how that paradigm may be changing with the availability of new targeted therapies and better prognostic markers.

ASCO 2021: Dr. Matthew Davids on Acalabrutinib vs. Ibrutinib for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

At the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2021, our own Dr. Brian Koffman interviewed Dr. Matthew Davids, Associate Director of the Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. They discussed new data from the ELEVATE R/R study, which is comparing acalabrutinib with ibrutinib head-to-head in high-risk patients with relapsed/refractory CLL and del(17p) or del(11q).

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