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FDA Approves the First-in-Class Bispecific Antibody for Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma
“This new treatment has the potential to help patients with this hard-to-treat cancer achieve remission,” says LLS Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Lee Gr…
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FDA Approves New Targeted Treatment Option for Certain Forms of Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Adults
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval yesterday to olutasidenib (Rezlidhia™) for the treatment of adults with acute myeloid leu…
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Caribou Biosciences Announces the FDA Granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) and Fast Track Designations to CB-010, an Allogeneic Anti-CD19 CAR-T Cell Therapy
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 - Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU), a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, …
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LLS Applauds FDA Approval of New Treatment Option for Pediatric Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday approved brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris®) in combination with standard dose-intensive chemotherap…
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FDA Broadens Treatment Options for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new treatment, teclistamab (Tecvayli), for adults with multiple myeloma that has returned or con…
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FDA Approves New Treatment for Children and Young Adults with Chronic Graft versus Host Disease
This week marked another milestone for the treatment of graft versus host disease in children. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ib…
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Yescarta® Receives U.S. FDA Approval as First CAR T-cell Therapy for Initial Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma (LBCL)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. April 1, 2022 - Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD), today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Y…
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FDA Approves Immunotherapy for Aggressive Form of Follicular Lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved CAR T-immunotherapy tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah®) for patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) wh…
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FDA Approves Combination Therapy for Patients with Certain Forms of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a combination of the targeted therapy ivosidenib (Tibsovo) and the chemotherapy azacitidine f…
Declaración sobre la autorización de la FDA de la tercera vacuna contra la COVID-19 de Pfizer y Moderna para personas con sistemas inmunitarios debilitados
Como organización basada en la ciencia, la Sociedad de Lucha contra la Leucemia y el Linfoma (LLS, por sus siglas en inglés), celebra la reciente deci…
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FDA Approves New Drug for Patients with Rare Blood Cancer (Myelofibrosis)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a drug for the treatment of intermediate or high-risk primary or secondary myelofibrosis, the…