The Pharmacoeconomics of Oral and Self-Administered Cancer Treatments
Oral and patient-administered forms of chemotherapy have come a long way since the 1950s, when mercaptopurine and methotrexate were first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Several oral anticancer medications (OAMs)...
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Hemophilia Drug Receives Priority Review From FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Roche’s biosimilar for emicizumab, a monoclonal antibody to treat children and adults...
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Watson Health, an IBM project, cut staff from recently acquired data companies Explorys, Phytel, and Truven Health Analytics in an extensive round of layoffs...
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Study Finds Thromboembolism Is a Frequent Complication of ALL Treatment
Adolescents and adults with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) are at a “markedly” increased risk for developing thromboembolism (TE), even when treated according to the...
Children With Ambiguous Leukemia Fare Better With Lymphoid-Directed Treatment
While most patients with acute leukemia have disease with a lymphoid or myeloid linage, 2 to 5 percent have “acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage”...
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Expanding Acalabrutinib to Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
Roger Owen, MRCP, MRCPath, MD, presents phase II data of the selective Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which showed “exceptional response rates” in both treatment-naïve...
Weekly Carfilzomib Dosing Superior to Twice-Weekly Dosing
James Berenson, MD, discusses results from a trial evaluating less-frequent dosing of carfilzomib for patients with myeloma. Once-weekly dosing was superior, but the mechanisms...
Enhancing Ibrutinib With Rituximab in Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
Combining ibrutinib with rituximab led to longer progression-free survival, compared with ibrutinib alone, in patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia. Meletios Dimopoulos, MD, shares results from...
Does Blinatumomab Affect CAR T-Cell Therapy Response?
In new data from ZUMA-3, patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia responded to CD19-targeting CAR T-cell therapy, regardless of prior CD19-targeting therapy with blinatumomab. Bijal...
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Axicabtagene Ciloleucel Moves to Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Axicabtagene ciloleucel, which in October 2017 became the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy...
Acalabrutinib Induces Durable Response in Patients With Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
In a phase II study of patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), treatment with the highly...
Moxetumomab Pasudotox: An Alternative to Chemotherapy in Relapsed/Refractory Hairy Cell Leukemia
In a pivotal phase III clinical trial of moxetumomab pasudotox in patients with relapsed/refractory hairy...
Chemotherapy-Free Combination Shows Efficacy in Untreated Follicular Lymphoma
The randomized, global, phase III RELEVANCE trial showed that a regimen of lenalidomide and rituximab...
Positive Results With Ivosidenib in Patients With High-Risk, Previously Treated AML
Treatment with ivosidenib, a mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) inhibitor, led to durable remissions among...
Venetoclax, Carfilzomib, Dexamethasone Combo Appears Well Tolerated in Relapsed/Refractory MM
In an ongoing phase II study, the addition of the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax to the...
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ASH Choosing Wisely Recommendation Makes the ABIM Top 12
The Choosing Wisely® campaign, an initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation, encourages clinicians...
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Remembering Barry Paw (1961-2017)
Barry Paw, MD, PhD, a principal investigator and pediatric oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood...
Remembering Ihor R. Lemischka and Günter Blobel, Feinstein Institute Researcher Awarded NIH Grant, and...
Remembering Ihor R. Lemischka (1953-2017)
Ihor R. Lemischka, PhD, a pioneer in the fields of hematopoiesis and pluripotent cell biology, died on December 17, 2017.Dr....
The Pharmacoeconomics of Oral and Self-Administered Cancer Treatments
Oral and patient-administered forms of chemotherapy have come a long way since the 1950s, when mercaptopurine and methotrexate were first approved by the U.S....
Genetic Testing: Ready, Set … Actionable?
In June 2000, President Bill Clinton announced that the international Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics had completed the initial sequencing of the human...
Exploring the Boundaries of Drug Importation
Importing pharmaceuticals from other countries to access lower-cost medicines is still a relatively murky issue.
Hematologist Kenneth R. Adler, MD, of Summit Medical Group MD...
