Category Archives: Cancer and neoplasms

Misdiagnosis Common for Suspected Myelodysplastic Neoplasms

FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients with suspected myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS), diagnoses are often discordant for local clinical sites and central, adjudicated review, according to a study published online Aug. 8 in Blood Advances. Edward J. Gorak, D.O., from the Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and colleagues compared local […]

Talvey Gets Accelerated Approval for Myeloma Treatment

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an accelerated approval to Talvey (talquetamab-tgvs) for the treatment of adults with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have received four or more prior treatments, including a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory agent and an anti-CD38 antibody, according to Janssen, the manufacturer of the drug. “Patients at this stage of disease […]

U.S. FDA Approves TALVEY™ (talquetamab-tgvs), a First-in-Class Bispecific Therapy for the Treatment of Patients with Heavily Pretreated Multiple Myeloma

Bispecific antibody targeting GPRC5D receptor showed an overall response rate of more than 70 percent with durable responses, including in patients previously treated with a bispecific antibody or CAR-T cell therapy HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has […]

Potential factors for and the prognostic impact of ascites after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Abstract Ascites is sometimes detected after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT); however, since limited information is currently available, its clinical meaning remains unclear. Therefore, we herein examined potential factors for and the impact of ascites on the prognosis of patients after allo-HSCT at our institutes. Fifty-eight patients developed ascites within 90 days of allo-HSCT (small […]