News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 20, 2016
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KOLOA, HAWAII—Preclinical research suggests that ARQ 531, a reversible Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, might prove e...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 20, 2016
A new study has shed light on the process leukemia cells use to evade apoptosis and revealed drugs that can fight this process.
Investigators found...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2016
Results of a phase 3 study suggest that obinutuzumab may not confer a benefit over standard therapy in patients with previously untreated diffuse l...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2016
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SAN DIEGO—Blood management guidelines can save millions of dollars and drastically reduce the waste of donated blood...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2016
A new study contradicts previous beliefs about how the body disposes of red blood cells (RBCs) and recycles their iron.
The work suggests the accum...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2016
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Five-year follow-up data from a phase 2 trial indicate that a subset of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients who fail autologous...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2016
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A class of newly discovered compounds can kill multidrug-resistant lymphoma cells by blocking the cells’ defenses against dr...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2016
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The “asymmetric division” of T cells could provide new ways to enhance cancer immunotherapy, according to ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2016
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance for the GloCyte Automated Cell Counter System and GloCyte Low and High Level Controls...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2016
The European Commission (EC) has approved lenalidomide (Revlimid®) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (M...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2016
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In a survey of advanced cancer patients and their oncologists, differing opinions about prognosis were ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2016
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An international competition has produced models that can help predict outcomes in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2016
A study of more than 400 women suggests that losing weight can reduce levels of cancer-promoting proteins in the blood.
Overweight or obese women w...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2016
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Researchers have discovered a genetic switch that could increase the supply of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) derived from c...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 14, 2016
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Progress in reducing the malaria burden in Africa may have had the paradoxical effect of increasing malaria transmissi...
