ASH for me always starts on a Saturday, as Friday is taken up with travel and a Super Friday corporate symposium, if any manage to catch our interest.

The start this year was somewhat disrupted by an ice storm that hit many southern states, causing considerable chaos for many ASH attendees – flights, hotels, bags, meetings, interviews, Ad Boards, investigator meetings, poster sessions and presentations etc.

I did enjoy the B cell malignancies CME session yesterday afternoon. Although it was sponsored by Gilead, it was well balanced and included discussion on FCR, ibrutinib, idelalisib, IPI-145, TGR-1202, ABT-199 and several earlier investigational compounds.

The highlight for me was Dr Susan O’Brien’s thoughtful and philosophical talk on where are we going with CLL?

It’s an important question for physicians to start asking themselves with Gazyva approved in CLL, Imbruvica (ibrutinib) is pending in CLL and idelalisib expected to gain approval in 2014.

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