{"id":26691,"date":"2021-01-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/new-research-in-treating-leukemia-and-lymphoma-ash-annual-meeting-2020\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:15:49","slug":"new-research-in-treating-leukemia-and-lymphoma-ash-annual-meeting-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/new-research-in-treating-leukemia-and-lymphoma-ash-annual-meeting-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research in Treating Leukemia and Lymphoma: ASH Annual Meeting 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/sites\/cancer.net\/files\/2020-ash-fb.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The 2020 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition was held virtually December 5 to 8. The meeting featured new research around the treatment of blood-related diseases, including cancers of the blood and bone marrow, such as leukemia and lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, Michael Williams, MD, ScM, discusses advances in treating leukemia and lymphoma in 2020 and research presented at the meeting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 new drugs approved in the last half of 2020 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of follicular lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma [2:38].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An update from a study evaluating the combination of ibrutinib with another targeted therapy drug, rituximab (Rituxan), in treating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/node\/31258\">Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia<\/a>, a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma [6:22].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Williams is the Byrd S. Leavell Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He serves as the chief of the Hematology\/Oncology Division, physician lead for the Cancer Service Line, and associate director for Clinical Affairs in the UVA Cancer Center. Dr. Williams is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/node\/33431\">Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Lymphoma<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/coi.asco.org\/share\/NG4-425H\/Michael%20Williams%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Dr. Williams\u2019 disclosures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Was this podcast useful?<\/em><\/strong> <em>Please subscribe, rate, and review Cancer.Net Podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts. This prerecorded podcast can be listened to online or downloaded to your computer. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/node\/41591\">transcript<\/a> is also available. For more information, visit the<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.net\/blog\/podcasts\"><em>Cancer.Net podcast page<\/em><\/a><em>&gt;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cancer.Net podcasts are edited for length and content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/blog\/2021-01\/new-research-treating-leukemia-and-lymphoma-ash-annual-meeting-2020\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition was held virtually December 5 to 8. The meeting featured new research around the treatment of blood-related diseases, including cancers of the blood and bone marrow, such as leukemia and lymphoma. In this podcast, Michael Williams, MD, ScM, discusses advances in treating leukemia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45440,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions\/45440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}