Christian Buske, Alessandra Tedeschi, Judith Trotman, Ramón García-Sanz, David MacDonald, Veronique Leblond, Beatrice Mahe, Charles Herbaux, Jeffrey V Matous, Constantine S Tam, Leonard T Heffner, Marzia Varettoni, M Lia Palomba, Chaim Shustik, Efstathios Kastritis, Steven P Treon, Jerry Ping, Bernhard Hauns, Israel Arango-Hisijara, Meletios A Dimopoulos
WHAT IS THIS SUMMARY ABOUT?: This article provides a short summary of 5-year results from the iNNOVATE trial. The original paper was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in October 2021. People with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) were randomly divided into two groups of 75 people each. One group received a combination treatment composed of two drugs, ibrutinib plus rituximab, and the other group took placebo ("sugar pill") plus rituximab. Ibrutinib (also known by the brand name Imbruvica® ) is a drug that reduces cancer cells' ability to multiply and survive...
February 23, 2023: Future Oncology