June 2022: After two or more lines of systemic therapy, the FDA awarded tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation) expedited approval for adult patients with relapsed or refract...
June 2022: Ivosidenib (Tibsovo, Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC) in combination with azacitidine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in...
June 2022: The FDA has approved the drug azacitidine (Vidaza, Celgene Corp.) for children with newly diagnosed juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML).The pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety,...
May 2022: Trametinib may become a new standard of care for recurring, low-grade serous ovarian cancer (Mekinist). According to study findings published in the February 2022 issue of The Lancet, tramet...
May 2022: According to study findings published February 1 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, overweight or obese adults who lose more than 5 pounds over five years have a 46 percent lo...
April 2022: Adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have received a prior anti-HER2-based regimen either in the metastatic setting, or in the neoadjuvant or adj...
April 2022: The Food and Drug Administration approved Pluvicto (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan, Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc., a Novartis company) for the treatment of adult patie...
April 2022: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a single agent for patients with advanced endometrial carcinoma that is microsatellite instability-high...
April 2022: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Opdualag (nivolumab and relatlimab-rmbw), a new, first-in-class fixed-dose combination of nivolumab and relatlimab administered as a ...
Leukemia in childhood Leukemia is the most common cancer in children and teens, accounting for almost 1 out of 3 cancers. Most childhood leukemias are acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelo...