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FDA Approves Xospata and Companion Diagnostic Test for Leukemia Treatment
November 29th 2018The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xospata (gilteritinib) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who have a FLT3 mutation that is detected by an FDA-approved test, according to the agency.
Immunotherapy May Mean No Chemotherapy for Some With Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer
November 27th 2018Immunotherapy may lead to a major change in how the treatment of metastatic recurrent head and neck cancer is approached, according to Barbara Burtness, M.D., a professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
FDA Approves Larotrectinib for NTRK-Positive Cancers
November 27th 2018The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to larotrectinib for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors that have an NTRK gene fusion without a known acquired resistance mutation, are metastatic or where surgical resection is likely to result in severe morbidity, and have no satisfactory alternative treatments or that have progressed following treatment.
New Chemotherapy Combination Offers Improved Outcomes in Bladder Cancer
November 27th 2018Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who were treated with a dose-dense regimen of neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy (surgery to remove the urinary bladder) experienced more complete responses to treatment compared with the current standard of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.