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January 24th 2025
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.
FDA Approves CAR-T Cell Therapy for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
May 2nd 2018The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) – a CAR-T cell therapy – for the treatment of adult patients who have relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who have relapsed or are ineligible for an autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).
Duvelisib Granted Priority Review for CLL and Follicular Lymphoma
April 9th 2018The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted duvelisib a priority review to a new drug application (NDA) for full approval to treat patients who have relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic leukemia (CLL/SLL). The FDA also granted an accelerated approval for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.
FDA Approves Adcetris Combination for Hodgkin Lymphoma
March 20th 2018Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin), in combination with chemotherapy, was granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a frontline treatment option for patients with stage 3 or 4 classical Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the manufacturer of the drug, Seattle Genetics.
CAR-T Cell Therapy: What We Never Dreamed Of
March 11th 2018Never in their wildest dreams dreams would immunologists from the last generation have imagined chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy coming to light. The very notion of genetically engineering a T cell to recognize a tumor antigen would have been viewed almost as a pipe dream.