Not exact matches
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.
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.
In PLAT - 02, the CAR T
cells are reprogrammed to recognize and target the CD19 protein that is expressed by most
precursor B acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cells.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have now unraveled how pre-leukemic white blood
cell precursors become
leukemia stem
cells.
Ultimately, this activity increases cellular regeneration, or self - renewal, turning white blood
cell precursors into
leukemia stem
cells.
In 2014, the FDA approved Amgen's BLINCYTO ® (blinatumumab), the first BiTE ® therapy to receive FDA approval, for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome - negative relapsed or refractory B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, a rare and rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
Effects of the chemokine stromal
cell - derived factor - 1 on the migration and localization of
precursor - B acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cells within bone marrow stromal layers.
Other CAR T -
cell therapies approved in 2017 include tisagenlecleucel for the treatment of children and young adults up to 25 years of age with relapsed or refractory B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia and axicabtagene ciloleucil (aci - cel; Yescarta) for adults with relapsed or refractory DLBCL.
A phase I / II trial of KTE - C19 (anti-CD19 CAR T
cells) for pediatric and adolescent subjects with relapsed / refractory B -
precursor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia -LRB-
CpG stimulation of
precursor B lineage acute lymphoblastic
leukemia induces a distinct change in costimulatory molecule expression and shifts allogeneic T
cells towards a Th1 response.