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Study Supports Urging Smoking-Cessation Treatment to Patients in Cancer Care

January 16, 2023

New research including Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates it’s both possible and helpful to get cancer patients who smoke into evidence-based tobacco-treatment programs as part of their cancer care.

Study Reveals How Chronic Blood Cancer Transitions to Aggressive Disease

January 11, 2023

A type of chronic leukemia can simmer for many years and for a small percentage of patients, the slower paced disease can transform into an aggressive cancer, called secondary acute myeloid leukemia, that has few effective treatment options.

Zanubrutinib Showcases Superior PFS Benefit Over BR in Treatment-Naïve CLL/SLL, Including High-Risk Subsets

July 20, 2022

Zanubrutinib was found to significantly improve progression-free survival over a doublet comprised of bendamustine plus rituximab in patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, according to data from cohort 1 of the phase 3 SEQUOIA trial.

Uproleselan Plus Chemotherapy Continues to Show Promise in AML

March 17, 2022

The addition of uproleselan to standard chemotherapy improved improve response rates and reduced chemotherapy-induced mucositis in patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia in a phase 1/2 trial.

Increasing Treatment Pathways Pave the Way for Heartening Future Throughout Hematologic Malignancies

March 09, 2022

Stephen Oh, MD, PhD, discusses current and emerging agents in myelofibrosis, advances in the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, updates in acute and chronic graft-vs-host-disease, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia management.

Afami-cel Shows Clinical Benefit in Synovial Sarcoma and Myxoid/Round Cell Liposarcoma

February 07, 2022

Brian A. Van Tine, MD, PhD, sheds light on the promise of SPEAR T-cell therapy in patients with synovial sarcoma and MRCLS, the safety and efficacy observed with afami-cel in the SPEARHEAD-1 trial, and next steps for research.