Francesca R Mauro, Irene Della Starza, Monica Messina, Gianluigi Reda, Livio Trentin, Marta Coscia, Paolo Sportoletti, Lorella Orsucci, Valentina Arena, Gloria Margiotta Casaluci, Roberto Marasca, Roberta Murru, Luca Laurenti, Fiorella Ilariucci, Caterina Stelitano, Donato Mannina, Massimo Massaia, Gian Matteo Rigolin, Lydia Scarfò, Monia Marchetti, Luciano Levato, Monica Tani, Annalisa Arcari, Gerardo Musuraca, Marina Deodato, Piero Galieni, Valeria Belsito Patrizi, Daniela Gottardi, Anna Marina Liberati, Annamaria Giordano, Maria Chiara Molinari, Daniela Pietrasanta, Veronica Mattiello, Andrea Visentin, Candida Vitale, Francesco Albano, Antonino Neri, Lucia Anna De Novi, Maria Stefania De Propris, Mauro Nanni, Ilaria Del Giudice, Anna Guarini, Paola Fazi, Marco Vignetti, Alfonso Piciocchi, Antonio Cuneo, Robin Foà
The GIMEMA phase II LLC1518 VERITAS trial investigated the efficacy and safety of front-line, fixed-duration venetoclax and rituximab (VenR) in combination in young (≤65 years), fit patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and unmutated IGHV and/or TP53 disruption. Treatment consisted of the venetoclax ramp-up, six monthly courses of the VenR combination, followed by six monthly courses of venetoclax as a single agent. A centralized assessment of minimal residual disease (MRD) was performed by allele-specific oligonucleotide polymerase chain reaction assay on the peripheral blood and bone marrow at the end of treatment (EOT) and during the follow-up...
August 1, 2023: Haematologica