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Chemotherapy prescribing habits for stage 3 colon cancer changed following IDEA study

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

A significant and increasing trend towards the use of a three-month rather than six-month adjuvant chemotherapy regime in stage 3 colon cancer has been observed following publications from the IDEA collaboration abstract. But whether treatments regimens could be shorter while maintaining efficacy remained uncertain.

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STAT+: Civica Rx considers moving into chemo drugs as shortages worsen

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WASHINGTON — A nonprofit formed by hospitals to deal with drug shortages is considering a move into chemotherapies. Frustrated by drug shortages and the price spikes that typically ensue, executives from large hospital systems launched the nonprofit Civica Rx to deal with the problem in September 2018.

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US Prescribing Information of Adcetris Updated to Include 6-Year Overall Survival of Hodgkin Lymphoma

Pharmacy Times

In 2018, brentuximab vedotin was approved for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma based on an improvement in progression-free survival of 82.3% in combination with chemotherapy.

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Immunotherapy to become standard treatment for infants with ALL

European Pharmaceutical Review

Blinatumomab significantly improved survival, with the rate increasing from 66 percent to 93 percent, compared to individuals just given prior chemotherapy. Between 2018 and 2021, 30 children in nine countries were treated with blinatumomab. The treatment was added to the existing chemotherapy, Interfant-06.

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Tisagenlecleucel recommended for routine NHS rollout to treat R/R B-cell ALL

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Final draft guidance for the treatment , which has been available through the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) since December 2018, recommends tisagenlecleucel for children and young adults up to and including 25 years of age who have B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) that is refractory, in relapse post-transplant or in second or later relapse.

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Sanofi’s immunotherapy Libtayo gets FDA not in first line lung cancer

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. “As published in The Lancet, in a prespecified analysis in the subset of patients proven to have PD-L1 expression of at least 50%, Libtayo reduced the risk of death by 43% compared to chemotherapy. In this patient population, Libtayo reduced the risk of death by 32% compared to chemotherapy.

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NICE recommends pembrolizumab for breast cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

NICE has issued 17 positive pieces of guidance for breast cancer since 2018. Evidence shows that administering the drug with chemotherapy before surgery and continuing with pembrolizumab after surgery, improves the chance the cancer will be prevented. Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy success in previous clinical trials.