Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics, and now U.S. cancer patients can’t get meds
On Nov. 22, three FDA inspectors arrived at the sprawling Intas Pharmaceuticals plant south of Ahmedabad, India, and found hundreds of trash bags...
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Widespread carboplatin, cisplatin shortages: NCCN survey
Only 64% of centers said they are still able to continue treating all current patients receiving carboplatin.
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`Remarkable’: CAR T therapy for CLL/SLL
Primary analysis of the TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial showed that a single dose of CAR T therapy achieved durable responses in CLL and SLL, with a...
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PMBCL: Postremission, patients may safely skip radiation
Among patients who had achieved complete remission of primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma with chemotherapy, the largest study of its kind found...
From the Journals
Number of cancer survivors with functional limitations doubled in 20 years
The 70% prevalence of functional limitation among survivors in 2018 is nearly twice that of the general population.
From the Journals
AFib risk with cancer drugs underestimated
Many cancer therapies increase the risk of atrial fibrillation, but this is underreported in clinical trials.
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Atorvastatin cut anthracycline cardiac dysfunction in lymphoma
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ZUMA-5: Axi-cel yields high response rate in indolent NHL
The CAR T-cell therapy had a favorable safety profile and a median duration of response that had not been reached at a median of 17.5 months...
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COVID-19–related outcomes poor for patients with hematologic disease in ASH registry
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Care coordination, equity can eliminate disparities for nonwhite patients with DLBCL
The use of a nurse navigation program to facilitate care helped iron out racial disparities that could lead to poor outcomes.
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ASCO to award $50,000 young investigator grant to study MCL
The award is a 1-year grant of $50,000 to pursue clinical research on mantle cell lymphoma.