Advances in Hodgkin Lymphoma
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lymphoma; lymphoproliferative disorders; chronic lymphoid leukemia; stem-cell transplantation; chimeric antigen T cells; targeted therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a hematologic malignancy with good prognosis as more than 70% of the patients can be cured with current chemotherapy, with or without radiotherapy. However, one-third of the cases finally relapses and needs salvage regimens that are usually consolidated with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Patients chemoresistant and/or relapsing after ASCT are a great challenge as standard strategies are quite disappointing in this setting. However, we are entering an exciting new era where new drugs or approaches may change the dismal prognosis of relapsing/refractory cases. Antibody-based conjugated therapies such as Brentuximab Vedotin directed against CD30 or ADCT-301 (camidanlumab tesirine) against CD25, or bi-specific antibodies, such as AFM13 that link CD16a and CD30 cells, have improved the specificity of salvage therapy in HL. Immune checkpoint inhibitors may overcome the immune tolerance to this malignancy and promising emergent adaptive immunotherapies based on chimeric antigen T cells (CAR-Ts) may arrive where chemotherapy fails. At the same time, as knowledge about molecular signaling pathways of HL grows, new targeted therapies become tested and eventually will obtain a place in the treatment of HL patients. The challenge will be to define an optimal algorithm for all specific situations using precision medicine.
Dr. Antonio Gutierrez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- new drugs
- brentuximab
- camidanlumab tesirine
- check-point inhibitors
- chimeric antigen T cells
- targeted therapy
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