Hematologic Malignancies—Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES—LYMPHOMA AND CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA 7500 Oral Abstract Session First results of a head-to-head trial of acalabrutinib versus ibrutinib in previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia. John C. Byrd, Peter Hillmen, Paolo Ghia, Arnon P. Kater, Asher Alban Akmal Chanan-Khan, Richard R. Furman, Susan M. O’Brien, Mustafa Nuri Yenerel, A�rpa�d Ille�s, Neil E. Kay, Jose Antonio Garcia Marco, Anthony R. Mato, John Francis Seymour, Stephane Lepre^tre, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Tadeusz Robak, Priti Patel, Kara Higgins, Sophia Sohoni, Wojciech Jurczak; The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; Universita� Vita-Salute San Raffaele and IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, on behalf of Hovon, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine, CA; Liv Hospital Ulus, Besiktas, Turkey; University of Debrecen, Debre- cen, Hungary; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Ma- drid, Spain; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Centre Henri Becquerel and Normandie University UNI- ROUEN, Rouen, France; University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; Medican University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland; AstraZeneca, South San Francisco, CA; Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncolo- gy, Krakow, Poland Background: Increased selectivity of the Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi) acalabrutinib (Aca) vs ibrutinib (Ib) may improve tolerability. We conducted an open-label, randomized, noninferiority, phase 3 trial to compare Aca vs Ib in patients (pts) with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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