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DLBCL treatment options: CAR T outperforms ASCT
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- Myles Starr
Relapsed and refractory DLBCL patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy achieved better outcomes than with autologous stem cell transplants.
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Rare lymphomas: Desperately seeking new txs
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- Myles Starr
Experts seek global collaboration to develop novel therapies for peripheral T-cell lymphomas, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma with many...
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Frontline myeloma treatments: ASCT vs. CAR T
- Author:
- Myles Starr
Experts debate whether CAR T-cell therapy could eventually replace autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) as the standard of care for multiple...
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Nationwide hematologists shortage: What’s being done?
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- Myles Starr
Efforts are underway to alleviate an acute shortage of U.S. physicians who’ve been trained to treat hemostasis, thrombosis and other blood...
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CLL combo treatment: Phase-3 study inconclusive
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- Myles Starr
Results of the clinical trial of a CLL drug triplet therapy, presented at ASCO 2023, showed that more data are needed to determine its long-term...
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New CLL meds: Improved survival rates, 1990-2018
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- Myles Starr
A just-published retrospective study shows nearly 30 years of steady progress in lengthening the lives of U.S. adults with CLL and other leukemias...
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DLBCL: Major new treatment breakthroughs
- Author:
- Myles Starr
After decades of slow progress, new drugs and therapies are paving the way to more effective treatment of DLBCL.
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Experts debate reducing ASCT for multiple myeloma
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- Myles Starr
Overall survival following multidrug regimens and transplant are on par, raising questions about the best frontline therapy for multiple myeloma...
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Frontline CLL treatment: Avoiding adverse events
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- Myles Starr
Single-agent frontline therapy helps patients with CLL live longer, but those at high risk of relapse may benefit from multiagent treatment.
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Relapsed CLL: New approaches prolong survival
- Author:
- Myles Starr
Venetoclax, with a second-generation generation Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, can lead patients with relapsed CLL back to remission.
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MRD: Powerful metric for CLL research
- Author:
- Myles Starr
New study showed how leukemia specialists can harness measurable residual disease to gauge the efficacy of novel treatment options.
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SCD meds: Why such ‘slow uptake’?
- Author:
- Myles Starr
A nationwide study found that pain medications approved to treat sickle cell disease were prescribed to fewer than one in three patients with SCD...
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Black women have higher state-level rates of TNBC
- Author:
- Myles Starr
The state-level disparities highlight gaps in physicians’ understanding of how social factors contribute to disparities in TNBC risk.
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Zika virus still calls for preparedness and vaccine development
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- Myles Starr
“There’s no antiviral that you can take for Zika. Until we have a vaccine, the key to controlling/preventing Zika is controlling the mosquitoes...
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Radiotherapy for early breast cancer: Sharp cutoff at age 70
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- Myles Starr
Radiation therapy was 50% less likely to be prescribed for patients age 70 and older with early-stage breast cancer.