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New Combo Drug Therapy Halves Death Risk From Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma

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She's also a survivor of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma, who first got diagnosed at the age of 25 back in 2017.After WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 -- Jenna Cottrell is a young sports reporter working for a TV station in the Rochester, N.Y., After 12 rounds.

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Behind the new kind of cell therapy that just won FDA approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

One expert views Amtagvi’s approval as a catalyst for further investment in TIL therapies, akin to how Kymriah’s 2017 clearance buoyed CAR-T treatment.

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Cell and gene therapy development moves into cardiac indications

Drug Target Review

Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) have made significant advancements in treating oncological diseases, with therapies like CAR-T cell treatments transforming cancer care. However, cell-based therapies are intended to leverage those healthy cells via transplant to regenerate damaged tissue.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

The mission of Lineage Cell Therapeutics is to deliver on some of the early promises of cell therapy. Cell therapy as a concept is a wonderful idea, but many of the early efforts never generated the kind of clinical data that gets people excited and leads to new medicines. In some cases, cell therapy can be curative for the patient.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

What potential advantages does the CD5 modulation strategy offer over traditional CAR-T therapies? MR : Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is very effective in treating patients with B-cell lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma, where we have six FDA-approved drugs.

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Gene therapy clearly hasn’t had a major impact on health care, offering extremely expensive treatments for a few individuals with rare diseases.

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Adrenocortical carcinoma: No mitotane for low risk of recurrence

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

In 2017, the teams of Massimo Terzolo and Martin Fassnacht published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that provided evidence for the efficacy of Mitotane in the prevention of recurrence in adrenocortical carcinoma.