News and Treatment Updates

Here's where you'll find a regularly updated, broad range of articles written by the AAMDSIF team, allied health organizations and news organizations. By staying well-informed, patients and families are practicing a form of self-support that will help them be more effective self-advocates when engaging with health care providers.

Hematologic complications of immune checkpoint inhibitors

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a class of anti-neoplastic therapies that unleash immune cells to kill malignant cells. There are currently 7 medications FDA-approved for the treatment of 14 solid tumors and 2 hematological malignancies. These medications commonly cause immune…

AML Management: Feel Better With Food and Physical Activity

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If you’re receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), it probably feels like a lot of things are outside your control. But there are many small choices you can make each day — doable steps that can help you feel better inside and out. “It’s important to have achievable…

VIALE-A Trial: Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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(Partial video transcript; please use link to view video or complete transcript) Daniel Pollyea, MD, MS: The VIALE-A trial was a landmark confirmatory study mandated by the FDA for full approval of venetoclax. It was a randomized study that enrolled newly diagnosed patients with…

ASTEX PHARMACEUTICALS PRESENTS OVERALL SURVIVAL DATA FROM ASCERTAIN PHASE 3 STUDY OF ORAL HYPOMETHYLATING AGENT INQOVI® (DECITABINE AND CEDAZURIDINE) IN MDS AND CMML AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES

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Study achieved median overall survival of 31.7 months Updated efficacy data demonstrated an overall response rate of 62%, with 22% of patients achieving a complete response INQOVI is the only oral hypomethylating agent with equivalent exposure to its intravenous (IV) form…

Researchers discover potential Achilles heel of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have uncovered a potential Achilles heel of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in children that could lead to new treatments for this devastating disease. The team was the first to identify specific super-enhancers…

FDA Approves Ruxolitinib in Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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The FDA has approved ruxolitinib (Jakafi) for the treatment of patients 12 years and older with chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) after failure of 1 or 2 lines of systemic therapy, according to a press release by Incyte. The approval is based on data from the REACH3 trial…

Life Expectancy Still Lower for Blood or Marrow Transplant Recipients

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While late mortality among recipients of allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation (BMT) has decreased over the past 4 decades, life expectancy among these patients remains shorter versus the U.S. population at large, a retrospective cohort study found. Compared with the general…

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