These studies include risk-assessment by gene expression profiling, the therapeutic strategy in localized FL, use of obinutuzumab or lenalidomide in the front-line setting, stem cell transplant in early treatment failure and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibition and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in multiply relapsed disease.
<b>Data Synthesis:</b> Copanlisib is the first intravenous phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor approved for the treatment of relapsed FL in patients who have received at least 2 prior systemic therapies.
Idelalisib was the first PI3K inhibitor approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and is utilized in the treatment of relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and follicular lymphoma.
Two agents are already approved in the USA and Europe: ibrutinib, a BTK inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and Waldenström's macroglobulinemia; and idelalisib, a PI3Kδ inhibitor, for the treatment of CLL and follicular lymphoma.
Idelalisib, a PI3K inhibitor, specifically targeting p110δ, has been approved for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and follicular lymphoma.
Idelalisib, a PI3Kδ inhibitor was approved in 2014 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in combination with rituximab for the treatment of patients with CLL for whom single-agent rituximab would be considered appropriate and as a single agent for patients with relapsed small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) and relapsed follicular lymphoma (FL).