Patients with relapsed and difficult-to-treat Hodgkin lymphoma who received brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) following treatment with high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant had an unprecedented 50% higher likelihood of continuing to experience progression-free survival (PFS) at 2 years. This is particularly meaningful because most patients in this population who haven’t experienced relapse 2 years after transplant are cured.
The study’s lead author, Craig Moskowitz, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reported those results from the phase III, placebo-controlled AETHERA trial at the 2014 ASH Annual Meeting.
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