Sentences with phrase «lymphoma patients whose»
Not exact matches
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.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
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 targeted drug brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris ®)-- a monoclonal antibody linked to a chemotherapy drug — is approved to treat Hodgkin lymphoma in patients whose disease has failed to respond to other treatment and, as of August 2015, to prevent relapse following a stem cell transplant.