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Opinion: The U.S. should follow California’s lead on banning toxic chemicals in IV bags and tubes

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In 2017, at the age of 42, Susan Whitehead was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer after discovering a lump in her breast. Susan underwent two lumpectomies, a mastectomy, radiation, and chemotherapy. She embarked on a challenging path of treatment, including a recurrence with stage 2 cancer four years later.

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Opinion: STAT+: One way to create resilient drug supply chains: incentivize predictive models

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My first exposure to pharmaceutical shortages happened in 2017 as a new-to-practice nurse working on an inpatient oncology unit. Nearly 10 years ago, up to 83% of oncologists surveyed could not prescribe a preferred chemotherapy agent due to shortages. A hurricane in Puerto Rico had left the U.S. short of sodium chloride minibags.

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Chemotherapy and Compounding – What You NEED to Know

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Epicur Pharma’s Advisory Council member Ann Donoghue, DVM, MS shares her personal perspective on the important relationship between veterinary oncology and compounded medications used in chemotherapy treatments. Many of the presentations discussed the chemotherapies available to treat dogs.

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First CAR T-cell therapy recommended on NHS

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After initial chemotherapy, up to 45 percent of patients with DLBCL will require a second line treatment, which often involves high dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, according to a guideline published in a 2016 issue of the British Journal of Haematology. Could CAR T therapies be manufactured in one day?

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Kite cues up first EMA okay for mantle cell lymphoma CAR-T

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MCL is generally treated first with chemotherapy, and patients whose disease progresses despite that can then receive stem cell transplantation or BTK inhibitor drugs like Johnson & Johnson/AbbVie’s Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and AstraZeneca’s Calquence (acalabrutinib). billion acquisition of Kite in 2017.

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Gilead scores US approval for breast cancer drug that wowed ESMO

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Data from trials wowed ESMO in September 2020, where Trodelvy was shown to significantly extend overall survival (OS) and improved overall response rate (ORR) and clinical benefit rate (CBR), compared with standard chemotherapy in TNBC patients with brain metastases treated with at least two therapies. months, compared with 6.7

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Pieris begins gastric cancer combination trial with Lilly’s Cyramza

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The companies are looking to add a bispecific to Cyramza and the chemotherapy paclitaxel to create a more potent combination therapy in second-line HER2 positive gastric cancer. In March Servier decided to continue with a collaboration focusing on Pieris’ anticalin technology that began in 2017.