Hairy Cell Leukemia

P2, N=90, Recruiting, Kite, A Gilead Company | Trial completion date: Dec 2027 --> Mar 2025 | Trial primary completion date: Dec 2027 --> Mar 2025

SBLPN is a rare entity, usually on-flow cytometry CD25 negative. However, in dim CD25-positive cases, BRAFV600E mutational analysis helps in discerning SBLPN diagnosis and differentiating it from HCL-c.

P1, N=120, Recruiting, Stanford University | Not yet recruiting --> Recruiting

P1, N=120, Not yet recruiting, Stanford University

Binding studies of IFN-α2b and BSA with the ABS phase-forming components were assessed by MST, showing the strong interaction between FILs aggregates and both proteins. In view of their biocompatibility, customizable properties, and selectivity, FIL-based ABSs are suggested as an improved purification step that could facilitate the development of biologics.

P2, N=20, Not yet recruiting, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

The use of chemo-immunotherapy combining cladribine (CDA) and rituximab (R) represents an increasingly used therapeutic approach. Management of relapsed/refractory disease is based on the use of BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) plus R, MEK inhibitors (MEKi), recombinant immunoconjugates targeting CD22, Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi), and Bcl-2 inhibitors (Bcl-2i). However, the optimal sequence of the different treatments remains to be determined.

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P1, N=36, Completed, City of Hope Medical Center | Active, not recruiting --> Completed

P1/2, N=161, Active, not recruiting, Acerta Pharma BV | Phase classification: P1b/2 --> P1/2 | Trial completion date: Dec 2025 --> Apr 2026

P2, N=30, Active, not recruiting, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Trial completion date: Jan 2024 --> Jan 2025 | Trial primary completion date: Jan 2024 --> Jan 2025

P1, N=37, Active, not recruiting, City of Hope Medical Center | Trial completion date: Dec 2023 --> Dec 2024 | Trial primary completion date: Dec 2023 --> Dec 2024

Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is an uncommon B-cell neoplasm uniquely characterized by a high prevalence of the BRAFV600E mutation, which leads to constitutive activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway.1 In fact, the BRAFV600E point mutation is identified in nearly all cases of HCL; however, it is absent in HCL variant (vHCL) and rare in other B-cell neoplasms.2,3 Notably, in contrast to melanoma or other BRAF mutant solid tumors, HCL exhibits very few other mutations, potentially explaining the high response rates observed in patients treated with mutant BRAF-targeted agents, such as vemurafenib.

The RF algorithm was able to differentiate tumoral from non-tumoral B-cells in all cases and to propose a correct CLPD classification in more than 90% of cases. In conclusion the RF algorithm could be proposed as an interesting help to FCM data interpretation allowing a first B-cells CLPD diagnostic hypothesis and/or to guide the management of complementary analysis (additional immunologic markers and genetic).

These cases illustrate the valuable role OGM can play in establishing the diagnosis of MCL. Case 1 also contributes to the paucity of literature on the rare occurrence of IGK::CCND1 in MCL.

P1, N=3, Terminated, Stanford University | Phase classification: P1/2 --> P1

P2, N=203, Active, not recruiting, National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Recruiting --> Active, not recruiting

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P1, N=30, Active, not recruiting, City of Hope Medical Center | Trial completion date: Dec 2023 --> Sep 2024

P1, N=13, Active, not recruiting, City of Hope Medical Center | Trial completion date: Nov 2023 --> May 2026 | Trial primary completion date: Nov 2023 --> May 2026

Furthermore, we focus on current limitations of CAR-T-cell therapy in individual diseases and entities such as immunocompromising tumor microenvironment (TME), risk of on-target-off-tumor effects, and differences in the occurrence of adverse events. Finally, we present an outlook into novel innovations in CAR-T-cell engineering like the use of artificial intelligence and the future role of CAR-T cells in therapy regimens in everyday clinical practice.

We review the diagnostic criteria including clinical, immunophenotypic and molecular characteristics of patients with HCL-V and other HCL-like disorders including HCL, SDRPL, SMZL, B-PLL and the Japanese form of HCL. We also discuss the different criteria allowing us to separate these different entities and we will update the recent therapeutic options that have emerged, in particular the advances with chemoimmunotherapy and/or targeted therapies.

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This small-molecule oral treatment allows to gain valuable time-months or even years-before further, usually parenteral treatment options have to be given or before previous treatment has to be repeated. There are also promising data supporting the combination of vemurafenib with other drugs for the treatment of HCL patients which could provide even further possibility to bridge treatment.

In the present review, the pathogenic mechanisms associated with U2AF1 in different malignant diseases were summarized, and the potential of related targeting agents was discussed. Additionally, the feasibility of natural product-based therapies directed against U2AF1 was explored.

P2, N=15, Completed, National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Active, not recruiting --> Completed | Trial completion date: Mar 2024 --> Dec 2022

P1, N=60, Recruiting, Newave Pharmaceutical Inc | Trial completion date: Jul 2023 --> Dec 2025 | Trial primary completion date: Jul 2023 --> Jul 2025

While a combination of cytarabine, methotrexate, and rituximab initially prevented disease progression, he experienced multiple relapses over the course of 2 years and eventually became refractory to treatment. We suggest that besides its high response rate in systemic relapsed/refractory HCL, vemurafenib may offer benefits for patients with CNS involvement who are refractory to conventional chemotherapies and can achieve a durable response. Further investigation is needed to potentially establish vemurafenib as a first-line treatment option for HCL patients with CNS involvement.

Responses and prolonged PFS were observed in many tumours with BRAF mutations, including HCL, ECD, ovarian carcinoma, gliomas, ganglioglioma, and sarcomas. Although not all cancer types responded, vemurafenib is an agnostic oncogene therapy of cancers.

By adding CD200 to the combinations of markers in routine testing panel, Immunophenotyping by flow cytometry can be an effective tool in the diagnosis of B-LPDs especially in cases with atypical immunophenotyping pattern. Our result support that CD200 can be added to routine testing panel as it is useful in differentiating them.

She received first-line therapy with a 5-day course of Cladribine (0.15 mg/kg/day) with initial resolution of leukocytosis, normalization of platelets, and a 50% reduction in spleen size...Soon after the 2nd dose of Rituximab, leukocytosis recurred, and she was initiated on second-line therapy with Bendamustine (90 mg/m2 on days 1 and 2) along with Rituximab (BR)...As she was clinically unstable, we attempted to control leukocytosis with corticosteroids, leukapheresis aggressively and started the patient on Ibrutinib, but she succumbed to her disease...Additionally, more novel therapies could be considered sooner in the treatment course to control the disease and these lesions. Finally, our patient did not harbor BRAF V600E mutation, which likely resulted in further worse outcomes and limited the usage of targeted therapies like BRAF inhibitors.

Interim results to-date suggest that rituximab and low-dose vemurafenib (240 mg twice daily) have efficacy and good tolerability in patients with untreated or relapsed HCL. With accruing patient data and further enrollment on study, more information will guide the durability, efficacy and tolerability of this treatment approach.

These data suggest that monoclonal antibody treatments targeting SL antigen, such as anti-CD20, may be effective by activating cytotoxic NK cell to target lymphoma cells by antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. Thus, uncovering the characteristics of the TME may aid the development of non-invasive diagnostic procedures and/or precision therapies.

Among treated patients, 47/54 (87%) received cladribine and 7/54 (13%) pentostatin...A similar decrease in sIL-2R levels after therapy was observed in 4 relapsed patients treated with rituximab-vemurafenib (median pre-therapy sIL-2R 11.460 vs. 467 kU/L after treatment, p = 0.03; median reduction 10.848 kU/L)...While more data is required to validate its use in clinical routine, sIL-2R could be used as an effective marker for disease monitoring. Moreover, given the prognostic significance of post-therapy levels, sIL-2R may represent a prognostic factor alongside MRD to identify those patients that are more likely to develop early relapse.

We implemented a novel paradigm for the treatment of B cell malignancies: the specific targeting of the malignant clone, while sparing the remainder of the healthy B cell repertoire. We designed and optimized a best-in-class anti-IGHV4-34 CAR T cell product with potent anti-tumor effects and minimal toxicity towards IGHV4-34-negative B cells. The activity of CART4-34 will be investigated in a Phase I clinical trial.

Following lymphodepletion (cyclophosphamide 300 mg/m2/day and fludarabine 30 mg/m2/day for 3 days), MB-106 is administered to patients with indolent B-cell NHL at one of two dose levels (DL): DL1, 3.3×106; and DL2, 1.0×107 cells/kg. Treatment with MB-106, a third generation CD20 targeting CAR-T, resulted in responses, including CRs, and CAR-T persistence in patients with R/R indolent NHL and was associated with favorable safety profile with no occurrence of Grade 3 or Grade 4 cytokine release syndrome and no ICANS of any grade. CRs have been observed in patients previously treated with CD19-targeted CAR-T in both this multicenter trial and the original single institution trial. Dosing is ongoing in the final dosing level (1.0×107 cells/kg) to establish the recommended Phase 2 dose for a planned pivotal trial in WM.

In summary, we have developed a DNA methylation-based classifier that resolves 4 SBLPN subgroups with distinct molecular features, and reclassifies a subset of SMZL and HCL patients, adding further information to the updated WHO/ICC entities. We reveal distinct biological pathways operating in M-SBLPN subgroups that may aid targeted therapy approaches.

The rapid demise of these two patients with BRAF V600E-mutant AML highlights their poor prognosis. Few cases of BRAF V600E-mutant AML have been described in the literature, all of which reported poor survival. Intriguingly, most cases exhibited monocytic morphology and concurrent KMT2A rearrangements, as was observed in case 2.

P2, N=90, Recruiting, Kite, A Gilead Company | Trial completion date: Nov 2029 --> Dec 2027 | Trial primary completion date: Nov 2029 --> Dec 2027

The diagnosis of HCL requires a multipronged approach. The use of clinical features, morphology, and immunophenotyping combined with ancillary techniques provides higher diagnostic accuracy and enables its distinction from other B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders (BCLPDs), leading to better patient management and treatment.