B cell suppression in newborn following treatment of pregnant diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma patient with rituximab containing regimen.
High serum vascular endothelial growth factor level is an adverse prognostic factor for high - risk diffuse large B -
cell lymphoma patients treated with dose - dense chemoimmunotherapy.
The outcome of peripheral T -
cell lymphoma patients failing first line therapy: a report from the prospective, international T - Cell project.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«
Patients with non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) should receive front line therapy with the anaplastic
lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor crizotinib,» said lead author Professor Giorgio Scagliotti, head of the Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Italy.
Experience with
lymphoma patients, who receive a transplant of their own blood or bone
cells after radiation to wipe out their cancer, has shown «there's no doubt it helps,» says bone marrow transplant expert Nelson Chao of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
To block this signal, recent clinical studies have focused on inhibiting the activation of the B -
cell receptor as a treatment for non-Hodgkin
lymphoma patients, but with variable success.
Professor Gandhi said results from a landmark study regarding the tool would help clinicians identify the best course of action for
patients with Diffuse Large B -
Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL).
Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody that attacks cancer
cells in
patients with a certain subtype of B -
cell lymphoma, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997.
The approach, which is described in a paper to be published September 7 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could allow those in need of such transplants, including leukemia and
lymphoma patients, to be treated with fewer donor stem
cells while limiting potential adverse side effects.
In recent clinical trials, CAR T
cell therapy has dramatically improved the outcomes of blood cancer
patients with advanced, otherwise untreatable forms of leukemia and
lymphoma.
Results of a phase one trial show that an investigational topical drug, resiquimod gel, causes regression of both treated and untreated tumor lesions and may completely remove cancerous
cells from both sites in
patients with early stage cutaneous T
cell lymphoma (CTCL)-- a rare type of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma that affects the skin.
«Topical gel proves safe, effective treatment for
patients with skin t
cell lymphoma.»
Since 2011, though, experimental CAR T
cell treatments for B
cell leukemias and
lymphomas — cancers in which
patients» healthy B
cells turn cancerous — have been successful in some
patients for whom all standard therapies had failed.
Beilhack and colleagues found that a slightly modified version of STAR2 has a similar effect on human T reg
cells, suggesting that the approach could also prevent GvHD in leukemia and
lymphoma patients after bone marrow or hematopoietic stem
cell transplants.
A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T -
cells that cause T -
cell lymphomas could offer hope to
patients with the aggressive and difficult - to - treat family of cancers, finds a study involving researchers from Cardiff University.
The therapy is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for relapsed or treatment - resistant Hodgkin
lymphoma, and it is commonly prescribed to
patients whose disease has progressed after autologous stem
cell transplant, a procedure that replenishes the bone marrow with the
patient's own healthy stem
cells after therapy.
High Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Level Is An Adverse Prognostic Factor In High Risk Diffuse Large B -
Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)
Patients Treated with Dose - Dense Chemoimmunotherapy and Systemic CNS Prophylaxis.
«Autologous stem
cell transplant should be standard care for HIV - associated
lymphoma: Multicenter, Phase II trial suggests autologous transplant should be standard of care for HIV
patients with relapsed / treatment - resistant
lymphoma.»
Based on our data, autologous stem
cell transplant should be considered the standard of care for
patients with HIV - related
lymphomas for the same indications and under the same circumstances that we would use it in
patients without HIV infection.»
Dose - densified chemoimmunotherapy followed by systemic central nervous system prophylaxis for younger high - risk diffuse large B -
cell / follicular grade 3
lymphoma patients: results of a phase II Nordic Lymphoma Grou
lymphoma patients: results of a phase II Nordic
Lymphoma Grou
Lymphoma Group study.
Exon - Based Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Genes That Have Prognostic Impact on the Survival of Young High Risk Diffuse Large B -
Cell / Follicular Grade 3
Lymphoma Patients Treated with Dose - Dense Chemoimmuno - therapy and CNS Prophylaxis.
The FDA granted accelerated approval to nivolumab (Opdivo), an anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, for
patients with classical Hodgkin
lymphoma (cHL) whose disease has relapsed or progressed after stem
cell transplantation and the targeted antibody brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris).
The FDA granted approval to Yescarta ™ (axicabtagene ciloleucel, Kite / Gilead) for the treatment of adult
patients with several types of non-Hogdkin large B
cell lymphoma that is refractory or has relapsed after at least two previous systemic treatments.
The FDA granted approval to rituximab and hyaluronidase (Rituxan Hycela) for
patients with follicular
lymphoma (FL), diffuse large B
cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
CHOP Chemotherapy Plus Rituximab Compared With CHOP Alone In Elderly
Patients With Diffuse Large B -
Cell Lymphoma
Ronald Levy reports the first successful treatment of a
patient with a monoclonal antibody against the idiotype of a B
cell lymphoma.
But efforts to develop adoptive T
cell therapies for solid tumors have hit upon a number of challenges; the only gene therapies to show significant benefit for
patients have been in liquid tumors — forms of leukemia and
lymphoma.
Plerixafor has been approved by the FDA as the first small - molecule CXCR4 antagonist for use in combination with granulocyte - colony stimulating factor (GCSF) to mobilize hematopoietic stem
cells to the bloodstream for collection and subsequent autologous transplantation in
patients with non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
Hematopoetic stem
cell mobilization in
patients with Leukemia,
Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
Heidi Simmons decided to focus on
cell therapy for treatment of blood cancers like leukemia,
lymphoma and myeloma, where healthy
cells are infused into
patients to replenish those damaged by cancer.
Hematopoietic stem
cell mobilization in
patients with multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin
lymphoma or Hodgkin disease
Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Stem
Cell Mobilization of TG - 0054 in Multiple Myeloma, Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma and Hodgkin Disease
Patients.
Scope: 22 institutions Treatment: CD19 - targeting CAR T -
cell therapy Results: 42 % of
patients with aggressive large B -
cell lymphoma remained in remission after 15 months
Brentuximab vedotin was previously approved by the FDA to treat cHL after relapse, cHL after stem
cell transplant when a
patient is at a high risk of relapse or progression, systemic anaplastic large
cell lymphoma (ALCL) after failure of other treatment, and primary cutaneous ALCL after failure of other treatment.
«With the FDA's recent approval of this therapy, we believe this is a major advance in the treatment of
patients with relapsed or refractory large B -
cell lymphoma, and is likely to save or prolong lives of many
patients,» says Neelapu.
Administration of chemotherapy to
patients hospitalized with diffuse large B
cell lymphoma (DLBCL) was associated with lower odds of death during hospitalization, according to the results of a study published in Cancer Epidemiology.