Frontline Therapy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

BACKGROUND

The treatment landscape of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has tremendously evolved in the last decades, thanks to the introduction of more effective therapies.

SUMMARY: Frontline therapy for patients with CLL includes chemoimmunotherapy (CIT) and pathway inhibitors (PIs) (i.e., bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors and BCL2 inhibitors); the latter has proved to be more effective than CIT mainly in patients with high-risk features (e.g., TP53 aberrations and unmutated IGHV) with acceptable toxicity. Combinations of PIs are playing the protagonist role as frontline therapy for CLL.

KEY MESSAGES: In this article, the management of treatment-naïve patients with CLL is discussed.