ELARA: Tisa-cel in follicular lymphoma [Video]

Nathan Fowler, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, provides an update on the Phase II ELARA trial (NCT03568461), which assessed tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel), a CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL). Tisa-cel improved progression-free survival across different subtypes of FL, including patients who progressed within 2 years (POD24). Patients who received tisa-cel in an outpatient setting also were less likely to require hospitalization, highlighting the ability for CAR T-cell therapies to be administered in an outpatient setting for patients with a low-risk disease. This interview took place at the 63rd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition congress in Atlanta, GA.