The FDA has approved the CAR T - cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) for the treatment of large B -
cell lymphomas in adults who have failed or relapsed after two or more prior treatments.
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.
C, follicular B -
cell lymphoma in the spleen.
Small, focused clinical trials are possible for certain B - cell malignancies such as Diffuse Large B -
Cell Lymphoma in which patients can be stratified based on NF - kB activation status and / or presence of mutations known to activate NF - kB.
Within a few months of his diagnosis of primary cutaneous T - cell lymphoma, he developed systemic involvement of T -
cell lymphoma in an axillary lymph node, bone marrow and lung.
The study involved mice with ataxia - telangiectasia (A-T), a genetic disease linked to a high rate of B -
cell lymphoma in both mice and humans.
Steroids and chlorambucil can keep a cat with small
cell lymphoma in remission for months.
(Small cell lymphoma is found in the intestinal tract of cats, and is different than large
cell lymphoma in that it has a slower progression.
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Recently Dr. Post and colleagues have authored two seminal papers significantly advancing the treatment of both B - cell lymphoma and T -
cell lymphoma in dogs.
Veterinary Specialty Center is now offering a new monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy as an aid in the treatment of T -
cell lymphoma in dogs.
Cardiff still thrives and has a great quality of life despite being diagnosed with T -
Cell Lymphoma in December 2013.
Intestinal T -
cell lymphoma in a stranded California sea lion.
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 treatmen
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 treatmen
in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer
in patients six months after treatmen
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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).
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.
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.
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.
ABT - 737 targets proteins known as B -
cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl - 2) and Bcl - xL, which prevent apoptosis, a form of
cell suicide,
in cancer
cells.
Mantle
cell lymphoma is a very aggressive and difficult to treat cancer originated
in blood
cells and lymph nodes.
Excitingly, when compared with healthy
cells, the
lymphoma cells were considerably more sensitive to a reduction
in MCL - 1 function.
The team used gene expression profiling and found that canine B -
cell lymphoma expression profiles were similar
in many ways to human B -
cell lymphoma, thus paving the way for future studies, including therapeutic clinical trials
in dogs and humans.
The team, which included members of the Health Science Center departments of medicine and biochemistry, investigators from the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a group of collaborators from Austria, found that the gene that codes the enzyme D2 - hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase (D2HGDH) is mutated
in a subset of cancers called diffuse large B -
cell lymphomas.
This receptor normally stimulates the growth of B -
cells only when it is needed, but
in non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, the growth signal is constantly on, making B -
cells grow uncontrollably.
For example, a drug called ibrutinib has been tested
in clinical trials to treat an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, 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.