Sentences with phrase «lymphoma treatment approved»

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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.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to decide by Nov. 29 whether to approve Kite's CAR T, axi - cel, for treatment of adults with advanced lymphoma.

The drug is already approved in many countries as a treatment for some forms of leukemia and lymphoma, under the name Campath.

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.

As an organization of physicians and scientists who care for desperately ill patients, including those with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) is supportive of efforts to provide insurance parity for all approved evidence - based cancer treatments.

The first monoclonal antibody for cancer (rituximab, Rituxan, directed to CD20 on B lymphocytes) is approved for the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by the FDA.

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.

Current treatment options for patients, aside from watchful waiting, include chemotherapy and rituximab, which was approved for first - line follicular lymphoma in 2006.

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.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the oral Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma who require systemic therapy and have had at least one prior anti-CD20 therapy.

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.