Bemcentinib Meets Efficacy Endpoint for High-Risk MDS and AML
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Bemcentinib Meets Efficacy Endpoint for High-Risk MDS and AML

Recently, biopharmaceutical company BerGenBio ASA ("BerGenBio") announced that their drug candidate bemcentinib reached its primary efficacy endpoint in a Phase 2 clinical trial. The drug is designed to treat patients…

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CC-486 Improves Myelodysplastic Syndromes Patient’s Transfusion Independence But With Significant Adverse Reactions
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CC-486 Improves Myelodysplastic Syndromes Patient’s Transfusion Independence But With Significant Adverse Reactions

  Results of a Phase III study of CC-486 (oral form of azacitidine) showed a significant improvement for older patients who had been transfusion dependent. The results were favorable when…

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Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Phase 1 Trial Results Find Potential in New Combination Therapy
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Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Phase 1 Trial Results Find Potential in New Combination Therapy

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the biopharmaceutical company Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. has recently published results from a phase 1 clinical trial that was sponsored by the company. This trial…

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$6.75 Million in Grants Sets the Stage for the Next Level of Blood Cancer Treatments
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$6.75 Million in Grants Sets the Stage for the Next Level of Blood Cancer Treatments

  After forty years of research to counter or cure acute myeloid leukemia and other blood cancers, a few years ago the medical community exploded with eight new cancer drugs.…

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New Investigative Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes is Being Investigated
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New Investigative Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes is Being Investigated

Antigen-specific T-cell therapy is an innovative treatment option which uses immune cells to combat cancer cells. AdventHealth is the very first in the world to use this treatment for patients…

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Novel Immunotherapy Treatment for AML and MDS Developed by AdventHealth
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Novel Immunotherapy Treatment for AML and MDS Developed by AdventHealth

Orlando-based healthcare company AdventHealth developed a novel immunotherapy treatment designed to treat patients with AML and MDS whose conditions failed to respond to other treatments. In addition, the organization is…

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Researchers Discover Method to Predict Survival in Low-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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Researchers Discover Method to Predict Survival in Low-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes

A recent study published in Blood Cancer Journal has established a new method for effectively predicting survival outcomes for patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The method is known as the…

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MEDALIST Trial: The Need for Blood Transfusions Was Reduced in Myelodysplastic Syndrome Patients

Dr. Pierre Fenaux, of Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris and lead author of the MEDALIST trial, told Ash Clinical News that treatment with the investigational drug, luspatercept, improved the rate of…

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Elderly Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes can Have Successful Transplants
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Elderly Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes can Have Successful Transplants

By Rachel Whetstone from In The Cloud Copy Many patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are elderly when they’re diagnosed with the disease. Although stem cell transplants are often thought to…

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TrialJectory is a New Website Helping to Match Cancer Patients to Clinical Trials
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TrialJectory is a New Website Helping to Match Cancer Patients to Clinical Trials

TrialJectory is an organization working to match bladder, breast, colorectal, melanoma, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and other cancer patients with the clinical trial that is right for them. They have successfully raised…

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Experimental Myelodysplastic Syndrome Treatment Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation

  A drug created by Agios Pharmaceuticals, TIBSOVO, was recently granted the Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA for the treatment of relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with an…

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FDA Committee to Hold Review for Reblozyl as a Treatment for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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FDA Committee to Hold Review for Reblozyl as a Treatment for Myelodysplastic Syndromes

According to a story from BioPortfolio, Acceleron Pharma and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company have announced recently that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will review the supplemental Biologics License…

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