Leukemia

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The Food and Drug Administration granted fast track designation to AUTX-703 for relapsed or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia.

From the deaths of John Sykes and former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to an update from Mike Peters, here’s this week’s cancer news.

Patients with lymphoma or leukemia with methotrexate-induced acute kidney injury experienced improved renal outcomes following glucarpidase treatment.

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CURE® highlights some top stories from the ASH Annual Meeting, focusing on B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, multiple myeloma and other blood cancers.

This marks the first mesenchymal stromal cell therapy approved by the FDA for children with acute graft versus host disease.

Outpatient lymphodepletion followed by Tecartus was found to be safe and effective in treating B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma.

The Venclexta-based regimen improved complete response rates in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.

Calquence plus Venclexta, with or without Gazyva, improved progression-free survival over the standard-of-care chemoimmunotherapy in patients with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Scemblix resulted in better outcomes and fewer side effects compared to standard tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapies in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Tecartus demonstrated similar effectiveness across age groups of patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Long-term follow-data shows Revuforj to be effective in the treatment patients with R/R KMT2Ar acute leukemias.

Treatment with bicistronic CD19/CD22 CAR-T cell therapy has shown event-free survival improvements in children with relapsed or refractory B-ALL.

Pediatric patients with standard-risk B-ALL demonstrated significantly improved disease-free survival with Blincyto plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone.

The FDA approved several drugs throughout November for the treatment of diseases including leukemia and biliary tract cancer, in addition to a diagnostic for solid cancers.

The FDA has approved updated drug labeling for Sandoz in the treatment of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

New treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia may lead to fewer side effects than chemotherapy, as they target cancer cells more precisely, an expert said.

Revuforj was approved by the FDA for adults and children with relapsed/refractory acute leukemia with a KMT2A translocation.

Danziten, a new formulation of nilotinib, may improve treatment adherence in patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia.

The CAR-T cell therapy Aucatzyl was approved for relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia based on findings from the FELIX trial.

During October, the FDA approved drugs to treat diseases including breast cancer, lung cancer, leukemia and gastric cancer.

Treatment with Scemblix was shown to improve response rates in patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia in the chronic phase.

Jylamvo is an oral liquid formulation of methotrexate originally approved in 2022 for adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, among other diseases.

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