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ASH 2018: Hodgkin lymphoma: beyond ABVD for everyone

Written by | 14 Jan 2019

Article by Maria Dalby. Interviews by Hannah Chatfield Achieving the ultimate goals of maintaining cure and minimising long-term toxicity in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) requires individualised therapy based on… read more.

Advanced stage disease

Written by | 5 Dec 2018

As survival with frontline chemotherapy has steadily improved for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma several studies have looked at how far short- and long-term toxicity can be reduced… read more.

DDW 2018: Choice in patient management

Written by | 2 Oct 2018

IBD specialists have more treatment options than ever before; yet the optimal use of many agents, old as well as new, remains to be defined. A plenary session… read more.

EHA 2018: The Issue of Frailty in MM

Written by | 24 Jun 2018

When treating patients with MM frail patients are less able to tolerate aggressive treatment and therefore have poorer OS. In the era of novel agents there is a… read more.

BSH 2018: Hodgkin lymphoma: tackling treatment challenges in the older patient

Written by | 21 Jun 2018

Managing Hodgkin lymphoma in elderly patients can be challenging, given that trial data do not reflect the picture in elderly patients and performance status can vary widely. The… read more.

BSH 2018: Molecular biology to drive rational drug usage

Written by | 20 Jun 2018

Gene expression profiling has shown that that the activated B-cell and germinal centre B-cell subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma are driven by different oncogenic pathways and this may… read more.

BSH 2018 Highlights

Written by | 20 Jun 2018

In the video, Dr Cathy Burton (Leeds), Dr Stella Bowcock (London) and Dr Stephen Robinson (Bristol) give their highlights from this year’s BSH meeting, including the Lymphoma Specialist Interest Group (SIG) which held a… read more.

Updated findings from the German Hodgkin Study Group HD18 trial

Written by | 20 Jun 2018

BEACOPP treatment offers considerable advantages in terms of overall survival and low dose regimens offer short, safe and effective treatment for newly-diagnosed advanced-stage HL patients …… 

BSH 2018: Creating off-site, nurse-led treatment units for administration of chemotherapy to people with lymphoma

Written by | 20 Jun 2018

The launch of biosimilar rituximab provided an opportunity to save £300,000 per year but called for time-consuming intravenous administration that exceeded the capacity of the hospital unit. Off-site… read more.

BSH 2018: Debate: CAR-T cell therapy will become the standard of care for relapsed high-grade B-cell lymphoma within 5 years

Written by | 11 May 2018

Is CAR-T cell therapy a realistic treatment option for patients with large B cell lymphoma who otherwise have no curative options or an expensive new treatment that is… read more.

BSH 2018: Access to new agents

Written by | 11 May 2018

Cancer drugs receive special funding in the NHS but it is not automatic and input from expert clinicians is essential to ensure that effective treatments are funded appropriately…. read more.

BSH 2018: Stratified medicine – using genomic analysis to deliver therapy in high-risk myeloma

Written by | 11 May 2018

Dr Martin Kaiser (London) discusses recent work from the UK on identifying robust markers and how clinical decisions can be made according to the biology of the disease. Advances… read more.

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