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Frailty-adjusted treatment strategy emerges in myeloma
SAN DIEGO – The trial found that lenalidomide/dexamethasone with lenalidomide maintenance led to longer event-free survival.
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Checkmate 436: Two-drug combo is ‘promising’ for PMBCL
SAN DIEGO – The early results suggest a high overall response to the drug combination.
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Lack of gut diversity hurts survival after HCT
SAN DIEGO – Patients with low diversity of intestinal microflora have worse overall survival after hematopoietic cell transplant.
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ECHELON-2: BV-CHP boosts survival in PTCL
SAN DIEGO – The newly approved regimen outperformed the standard CHOP regimen in this rare cancer.
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GO-8: Early promise for novel FVIII variant in hemophilia A
SAN DIEGO – The data are encouraging in the first four patients treated with the single infusion.
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Hematologists are outliers in care at the end of life
SAN DIEGO – Dr. David Hui, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, is calling for an attitude shift around palliative care.
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Moderate approach best for NET liver mets
BOSTON – Partial reduction of liver metastases from malignant small bowel neuroendocrine tumors will help symptoms and...
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CLL at ASH: A ‘mountain of data’ for targeted therapies
SAN DIEGO – Dr. Brian Hill and Dr. Anthony Mato break down the take-home points from the key studies on chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented at...
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QOL is poorer for young women after mastectomy than BCS
SAN ANTONIO – A cohort study of 560 breast cancer survivors aged 40 or younger at diagnosis finds that breast satisfaction and several domains of...
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Data underscore the importance of lifestyle interventions in breast cancer patients
SAN ANTONIO – Data support lifestyle interventions in women with breast cancer; jury is still out on the effects of interventions on disease...
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Soft Tissue Sarcoma Chemotherapy
Reports from the annual meeting of The Connective Tissue Society held November 14-18, 2018, in Rome.