August 14th 2024
The FDA approved axatilimab for adults and children with chronic graft-vs-host disease whose disease progressed after 2 or more lines of systemic therapy.
Medical Crossfire: How Has Iron Supplementation Altered Treatment Planning for Patients with Cancer-Related Anemia?
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The Evolving Tool Box in Advanced HR+/HER2– Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know About Next-Generation SERDs, PI3K/AKT, ADCs, CDK4/6 and Beyond…
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18th Annual New York GU Cancers Congress™
March 28-29, 2025
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Coffee Talk™: Navigating the Impact of HER2/3, TROP2, and PARP from Early Stage to Advanced Breast Cancer Care
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Fighting Disparities and Saving Lives: An Exploration of Challenges and Solutions in Cancer Care
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26th Annual International Lung Cancer Congress®
July 25-26, 2025
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20th Annual New York Lung Cancers Symposium®
November 15, 2025
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Community Practice Connections™: 6th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Cases & Conversations™: Integrating Novel Approaches to Treatment in First-line ALK+ mNSCLC – Enhancing Patient Outcomes with Real World Multidisciplinary Strategies
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FDA Approves Abatacept to Proactively Treat Acute Graft-Versus-Host-Disease
December 16th 2021Abatacept is now available for use in combination with certain immunosuppressants to prevent moderate to severe acute-graft-versus-host disease for select patients who have received unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
New Drug Approvals Expand cGVHD Treatment Beyond Steroids, But Real-World Data Still Needed
October 30th 2021Ruxolitinib and belumosudil represent FDA-approved treatment options to manage cGVHD, however, real world data will determine best practices for treatment and future research directions within the space.
FDA Grants ALPN-101 Orphan Drug Designations for GVHD Prevention, Treatment
March 19th 2020The FDA has granted 2 Orphan Drug Designations to ALPN-101 for the prevention and treatment of acute graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD), according to Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc., the company developing the first-in-class selective dual T cell costimulation inhibitor.
Itacitinib Misses GVHD Treatment Goal
January 7th 2020The combination of itacitinib and corticosteroids did not induce a statistically significant improvement in overall response rate (ORR) at day 28 compared with placebo plus corticosteroids in patients with treatment-naïve acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD).
FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for GVHD Prevention Drug
December 4th 2019The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation to abatacept (Orencia) to prevent moderate or severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in patients who underwent a hematopoietic stem cell transplant and are not related to their donors, according to Bristol-Myers Squibb, the manufacturer of the drug.
FDA Grants Priority Review to Ruxolitinib for Acute GVHD
October 27th 2018The Food and Drug Administration has granted a priority review to the supplemental new drug application for ruxolitinib (Jakafi) to treat patients with acute graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) who have had an inadequate response to corticosteroids.