ALLMedicine™ Hodgkin Lymphoma Center

May 6th, 2021 - The on-body injector (OBI) automatically delivers pegfilgrastim the day after chemotherapy (CTx), thus eliminating the need of return visits to the medical office for guideline-compliant pegfilgrastim administration. The CONVENIENCE study aimed to...

May 6th, 2021 - High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplant (HDC/ASCT) is standard treatment of chemosensitive relapsed classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), although outcomes of high-risk relapse (HRR) patients remain suboptimal. We retrospectively an...

May 6th, 2021 - This pharmacoeconomic simulation (1) assessed the cost-efficiency of converting a panel of 20,000 patients at risk of chemotherapy-induced (febrile) neutropenia (CIN/FN) from reference pegfilgrastim to biosimilar pegfilgrastim-cbqv; (2) estimated ...

May 6th, 2021 - The study investigated pretreatment Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA status and its prognostic values in 96 patients newly diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). With 13.5 % patients in positive EBV DNA status before therapy, the positive group had inferior...

May 4th, 2021 - Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) occurring following organ transplantation (post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder 'PTLD') is a highly aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It is typically treated with high-dose methotrexate-b...

Jan 14th, 2021 - More than 75% of all newly diagnosed patients with adult HL can be cured with combination chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.[2] Over the last five decades, U.S. national mortality has fallen more rapidly for adult HL than for any other maligna...

Jul 8th, 2020 - In updated results of the pilot study, presented during the ASCO2020 Virtual Scientific Program, researchers showed that lisocabtagene maraleucel induced durable response as a second-line treatment in large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

May 31st, 2020 - Pembrolizumab treatment significantly improved progression-free survival versus brentuximab vedotin in a recent randomized, phase 3 trial including patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, an investigator has reported.

May 30th, 2020 - Axicabtagene ciloleucel induced a 93% response rate among patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to interim results of the phase 2 ZUMA-5 trial presented during the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program.

May 30th, 2020 - Almost 100% of patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) responded to treatment with the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel, Yescarta), data from an ongoing study showed.

May 6th, 2021 - The on-body injector (OBI) automatically delivers pegfilgrastim the day after chemotherapy (CTx), thus eliminating the need of return visits to the medical office for guideline-compliant pegfilgrastim administration. The CONVENIENCE study aimed to...

May 6th, 2021 - High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplant (HDC/ASCT) is standard treatment of chemosensitive relapsed classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), although outcomes of high-risk relapse (HRR) patients remain suboptimal. We retrospectively an...

May 6th, 2021 - This pharmacoeconomic simulation (1) assessed the cost-efficiency of converting a panel of 20,000 patients at risk of chemotherapy-induced (febrile) neutropenia (CIN/FN) from reference pegfilgrastim to biosimilar pegfilgrastim-cbqv; (2) estimated ...

May 6th, 2021 - The study investigated pretreatment Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA status and its prognostic values in 96 patients newly diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). With 13.5 % patients in positive EBV DNA status before therapy, the positive group had inferior...

May 5th, 2021 - Methotrexate tablets is a dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor indicated for the: Treatment of adults and pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as part of a combination chemotherapy maintenance regimen ( 1.1) Treatment of adults ...

Apr 25th, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration granted an accelerated approval April 24 for a new drug for use in patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) who have tried at least two prior systemic therapies. The new product, ...

Apr 12th, 2021 - The combination of copanlisib plus rituximab led to a 48% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death, when compared with rituximab plus placebo in a phase 3 trial of patients with relapsed, indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The trial...

Feb 15th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Patients with cancer are considered at risk for COVID-19, but in some cases, could the infection be a good thing? A case report of a patient with ...

Feb 8th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lymphoma patients treated with B-cell-depleting anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab or obinutuzumab, may have worse outcomes from COVID-19 infection, according to a study from France. "More than 20 years ...

Jan 31st, 2021 - Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is an indolent subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that affects small lymphocytes. WM is rare, accounting for approximately 2% of hematologic malignancies with 1500 cases diagnosed per year in the United States...