Interferon - alpha Resistance in a Cutaneous T -
Cell Lymphoma Cell Line Is Associated With Lack of STAT1 Expression
Her mentor was Lindsay Shopland, Ph.D., director of education and the research topic was stimulating proliferation of primary mantel
cell lymphoma cells using a combination of MegaCD40L and IL4
Not exact matches
This time, the approval is for a type of blood cancer called large B -
cell lymphoma.
In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T -
cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive
lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer
cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.
KTE - C19 spurred either a complete or partial response in 13 out of 19 patients with large B -
cell lymphomas.
The new indication puts Kymriah in direct competition with Gilead Sciences» Yescarta, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October for treatment of adults with diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma who have failed to respond to other treatments.
Announced a clinical trial collaboration with Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer) to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the investigational combination of Yescarta and Pfizer's utomilumab, a fully humanized 4 - 1BB agonist monoclonal antibody, in patients with refractory large B -
cell lymphoma.
Kymriah — the first CAR - T ever to get approval — is now also the first CAR - T to get approval for two distinct indications in non-Hodgkin
lymphoma (NHL) and B -
cell ALL.
The drug, which was first approved last August for patients under 25 with B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is now OK» ed to treat large B -
cell lymphoma.
One of Juno's rivals, Kite Pharma, yesterday said it had completed its enrollment of 72 patients with diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma in the Phase II portion of the ZUMA - 1 trial, designed to assess KTE - C19.
Juno is developing its immunotherapy product candidate, JCAR017, which is in a Phase I trial, studying patients with B -
cell Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma [NHL].
Dr. Newman added that rival CAR T
cell therapy developer Kite Pharma was still likelier to generate more revenue than Juno with KTE - C19, which last week completed patient enrollment in the Phase II portion of the ZUMA - 1 trial in patients with diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma.
«Ultimately, we needed 20 years to learn how to supercharge these
cells to deliver anticancer activity,» says Arie Belldegrun, president and CEO of Kite Pharma in Santa Monica, California, which is assessing CAR T
cells in six trials for B
cell leukemia and
lymphomas, and glioblastoma.
These diseases include leukemia or
lymphoma, aplastic anemia, severe sickle
cell anemia, and severe combined immune deficiency.
Mr. Ostapiuk, 69, of Arlington Heights died of mantle
cell lymphoma Tuesday, March 18, in Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
Novartis, for example, spent $ 43 million on a manufacturing facility in Morris Plains, New Jersey, and last week it released results from a
lymphoma trial in which
cells were frozen and flown to and from patients in 10 countries.
Dozens of trials are underway, and two CAR - T
cell products, for childhood and young adult ALL and aggressive B -
cell lymphoma, may be approved later this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
However, for patients with
lymphoma, it may be a rather different story, as new research from the University of Copenhagen shows that toxins in the staphylococcus bacteria help cancer
cells gain control over healthy
cells.
The study included Scottish terriers with bladder transitional
cell carcinoma, golden retrievers with
lymphoma, American cocker spaniels with melanoma, and a fourth group of dogs open to all cancer types.
The most common type of skin
lymphoma is caused by the fact that specific immune
cells — CD4 - T - lymphocyttes — turn into cancer
cells.
The researchers also affected mouse models with Mantle
Cell Lymphoma, using the new platform to target cancer cells, induce cell death and dramatically improve overall survi
Cell Lymphoma, using the new platform to target cancer
cells, induce
cell death and dramatically improve overall survi
cell death and dramatically improve overall survival.
In the journal
Cell Reports, published today online, the scientists describe how the powerful master regulatory transcription factor Bcl6 regulates the genome, ensuring that aggressive
lymphomas survive and thrive.
FDA approves CAR - T
cell therapy to treat adults with certain types of large B -
cell lymphoma.
In fact, preliminary evidence already exists that HHV - 6 may be associated with some
lymphomas, a diverse set of cancers affecting the
cells of the immune system.
Previous studies of genetic alterations in
lymphoma and lung cancer have found that certain genetic mutations — specifically when part of a gene breaks off and gets fused to another — can inappropriately switch on ALK, driving cancer
cells to grow and divide.
«Everolimus R - CHOP combination safe for treating diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma.»
Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that affects the white blood
cells — called lymphocytes — that help protect the body from infection.
Diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma, or DLBCL for short, is the most common form of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, and can advance very quickly.
«There is an unmet need to develop new therapies based on R - CHOP to try to increase the cure rate for diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma,» says Patrick Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., a hematologist at Mayo Clinic and lead author.
The Penn team, in collaboration with Alain Rook, MD, director of the Cutaneous T -
cell Lymphoma Program and a professor of Dermatology, aims to develop a molecular taxonomy for mutations in SS patients.
Classified as either Hodgkin
lymphoma or non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, depending on which
cells are affected,
lymphoma accounted for approximately five percent of all new cancers diagnosed in the United States in 2014, according to the National Cancer Institute.
With that idea in mind, Karmali is leading an innovative Phase II clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of combining the diabetes medication metformin with standard chemotherapy to treat patients with diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma.
Lymphoma is the sixth most common cancer in the U.S., and diffuse large B - cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin l
Lymphoma is the sixth most common cancer in the U.S., and diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin l
lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin
lymphomalymphoma.
The targeted therapy everolimus may be safely combined with R - CHOP for new, untreated diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma according to the results of a pilot study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the Lancet Haematology.
«But in many of these cases the implant was removed without testing the surrounding fluid and tissue for
lymphoma cells, so it's difficult to definitively correlate the two.»
Breast implant - associated anaplastic large
cell lymphoma — or BIA - ALCL — is a rare peripheral T -
cell lymphoma that may develop in patients with breast implants.
«Hodgkin
lymphoma is unusual among cancers in that it consists of a small number of tumor
cells in a sea of inflammatory
cells and immune system
cells, including T
cells that don't work very effectively.»
He is using the virus to cure a rare form of blood cancer called EBV
lymphoma, caused when B lymphocyte immune
cells get infected with the Epstein - Barr virus (EBV).
Treatment with an investigational CAR T -
cell therapy induced complete remission of a brain metastasis of the difficult - to - treat tumor diffuse large - B -
cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which had become resistant to chemotherapy — the first report of a response to CAR T -
cells in a central nervous system
lymphoma.
Living in overcrowded conditions appears to protect children and young adults against developing a particular type of Hodgkin
lymphoma (HL), a cancer that originates from the lymphocytes (white blood
cells).
This clinical trial sponsored by Juno Therapeutics is testing JCAR017, which targets the CD19 protein expressed on most B -
cell leukemias and
lymphomas.
Several years ago, NCI scientists identified the two primary subtypes of DLBCL based on characteristic patterns of gene activity within the
lymphoma cells.
Lymphomas are caused by an abnormal proliferation of white blood
cells and can occur at any age.
A clinical trial has shown that patients with a specific molecular subtype of diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are more likely to respond to the drug ibrutinib (Imbruvica) than patients with another molecular subtype of the disease.
While the disease can take many forms, recent advances have better characterized how
lymphoma cells proliferate and interact with other
cells and tissues, leading to the development of powerful, targeted therapies with fewer side effects than traditional approaches.
Multiplexed genetic screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and anaplastic
lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker - guided treatment is cost - effective compared with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) setting in the United States.
Some patients with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have changes in the anaplastic
lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene, which can drive the development of their cancer.
Like a free pass, its presence on the surface of
lymphoma cells facilitates their migration through the vessel walls between adjacent endothelial
cells.
An APC - mimetic scaffold that was engineered to activate a specific type of CAR - T
cell was able to generate higher numbers of the modified T
cells over longer periods of culture than analogously designed expansion beads, and the resulting
cells were similarly effective in killing the
lymphoma cells in the mice.
The drug Rituxan, a monoclonal antibody that represses B
cells in rheumatoid arthritis and B
cell lymphoma, might prevent the inflammatory response that fuels formation of solid tumors.