Aggressive Lymphomas
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Brentuximab vendotin plus CHP meets PFS endpoint in ECHELON-2
Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Seattle Genetics announced phase 3 trial results in frontline treatment of peripheral T-cell lyphoma (PTCL).
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Ground-breaking therapy comes with distinct challenges
NEW YORK—Two chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies—axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta ®) and tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah™)—are already...
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Two immunologists receive Nobel Prize in medicine
Two immunologists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that represent a “paradigmatic shift in the fight...
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Brentuximab improves survival in older HL patients
Older patients with untreated Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) can achieve significantly improved survival by adding brentuximab vedotin to their treatment...
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FDA lifts partial hold on tazemetostat trials
The partial hold that paused U.S.-based enrollment in clinical trials of tazemetostat has been lifted.
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Prognostic factors guide mantle cell treatment decisions
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CAR T-cell studies dominate ongoing cellular therapy trials
Out of 753 cellular therapy trials listed at ClinicalTrials.gov as of March 30, 2018, 404 were CAR T therapy studies.
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FDA lifts partial hold on tazemetostat trials
The U.S.
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Outpatient lenalidomide/rituximab yields long-term MCL remission
Nearly two-thirds of evaluable patients with mantle cell lymphoma had durable responses to induction and maintenance.
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FDA approves duvelisib for CLL/SLL and FL
The U.S.
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Drug approved as part of frontline therapy for HL
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and...