Treating Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia

December 17, 2020
Kristie L. Kahl
Kristie L. Kahl

Kristie L. Kahl is vice president of content at MJH Life Sciences, overseeing CURE®, CancerNetwork®, the journal ONCOLOGY, Targeted Oncology, and Urology Times®. She has been with the company since November 2017.

In this episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with Dr. Asher Chanan-Khan about current standards of care for Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, as well as a clinical trial looking at a novel therapy.

In this episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with Dr. Asher Chanan-Khan about the current standards of care for Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, also known as WM.

WM is a rare, incurable disease. Its current standards of care available consist of Rituxan (rituximab), Imbruvica (ibrutinib) combinations or monotherapy in the first- and second-line setting. However, there are no treatments currently approved for the third line.

Chanan-Khan discussed these options, as well as a novel agent, CLR 131, that is being evaluated in a phase 2 study.

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