Vorasidenib in IDH1- or IDH2-Mutant Low-Grade Glioma

Ingo K Mellinghoff1, Martin J van den Bent1, Deborah T Blumenthal1

  • 1From Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (I.K.M.); the Brain Tumor Center, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (M.J.B.); Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (D.T.B., S.Y.-K.), and the Davidoff Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva (S.Y.-K.) - both in Israel; Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpitaux Universitaires la Pitié Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Paris (M.T.), and Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon (F.D.) - both in France; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (K.B.P.); the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (J.C.); Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (J.M.); the Royal Marsden Hospital, London (L.W.); Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (W.P.M.), and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (J.R.P.), University of Toronto (W.P.M.) - both in Toronto; the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor (Y.U.); the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (B.N.); Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (M.H.); Lundin Family Brain Tumor Research Center, University Hospital of Lausanne, and the University of Lausanne - both in Lausanne, Switzerland (A.F.H.); Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (Y.A.); Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid (J.M.S.); Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center - both in Heidelberg, Germany (W.W.); the University of Turin, Turin, Italy (R.S.); Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus (P.G.); Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami (M.F.); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (E.A.M.); Servier Pharmaceuticals (S.S., D.Z., S.S.P., L.S., I.H.) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (P.Y.W.) - both in Boston; and the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (T.F.C.).

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