Jennifer Crombie, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, discusses results from a real-world study of lisocabtagene maraleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Similar to published findings…
Tanya Siddiqi, MD, medical director of lymphoma, City of Hope, Orange County, California, discusses the primary analysis of the TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial. This phase 1/2, single-arm, multicenter…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In young women with breast cancer, temporary ovarian suppression by the gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue triptorelin during chemotherapy reduces the occurrence of premature menopause,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In postmenopausal women with node-positive early breast cancer, substituting docetaxel for epirubicin for the last three cycles of chemotherapy may improve outcome without…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An investigational agent, ARC1779, reduces cerebral emboli resulting from carotid endarterectomy by inhibiting the prothrombotic effects of von Willebrand factor (vWF), according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When used as adjuvant therapy in high-risk breast cancer or as primary treatment for metastatic breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem-cell…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In select patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage II colon cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy after resection improves survival, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), combination antithrombotic therapy with an anticoagulant and an antiplatelet increases the risk for clinically relevant bleeding with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with previously untreated multiple myeloma do better when they are given an autologous stem-cell transplant followed by an allogeneic transplant from a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among older women with breast cancer, specific comorbid conditions are independently associated with decreased survival, according to a report in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Argon plasma coagulation (APC) in combination with another method of esophageal recanalization is better than APC alone as palliative therapy in patients with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Venous thromboembolism (VTE) after colorectal surgery is nearly twice as common when a patient undergoes an open procedure compared to laparoscopy, a study…
