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Triple inhaler combo quells COPD exacerbations
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
A triple inhaler combination with 320 mcg of budesonide was associated with a significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality than a dual-drug...
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Inotuzumab / bosutinib treat R/R Ph+ ALL, CML in blast phase
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The novel combination showed early efficacy against Philadelphia chromosome–positive leukemias with poor...
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HSCT may be best option for therapy-related ALL
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Therapy-related ALL appears to be associated with poor prognosis features, but patients who undergo bone marrow...
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Isa-Kd improves PFS in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Adding the CD38-targeted isatuximab to carfilozimb/dexamethasone also increased the rate of minimal residual...
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Ibrutinib-venetoclax produces high MRD-negative rates in CLL/SLL
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Minimal residual disease was undetectable in peripheral blood of 75% of patients after an ibrutinib lead-in and 12 cycles of the combination.
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VIALE-A confirms survival benefit for venetoclax-azacitidine in hard-to-treat AML
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Patients over 75 and those with secondary AML had longer survival with the addition of venetoclax to azacitidine...
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Three-drug combo promising against high-risk CLL
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The combination of obinutuzumab, ibrutinib, and venetoclax was associated with a high complete response rate in...
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Pembrolizumab plus EP gives slight PFS edge in ES-SCLC
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
The KEYNOTE-604 trial showed a small progression-free survival benefit with the addition of pembrolizumab to standard chemotherapy.
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Celecoxib ‘should not be used’ as adjuvant therapy for stage III colon cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Neither disease-free survival nor overall survival were improved by adding celecoxib to adjuvant FOLFOX chemotherapy.
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Secondary surgery extends OS in recurrent ovarian cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Cytoreductive surgery provided a significant survival benefit over chemotherapy alone for patients with favorable presurgical predictive scores....
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Treating primary tumor doesn’t improve OS in stage IV breast cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Treating an intact primary tumor did not improve overall survival in women with de novo metastatic breast cancer...
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Oral relugolix works to a T against advanced prostate cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Compared with leuprolide, relugolix reduced testosterone levels more rapidly and was associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular side...
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Upfront pembrolizumab doubles PFS in MSI-H/dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Pembrolizumab outperformed chemotherapy in patients with microsatellite-instability high/mismatch repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer....
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Pembrolizumab plus chemo shows benefits for PD-L1–rich triple-negative breast cancer
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Patients with triple-negative breast cancers with PD-L1 combined positive score higher than 10 had better progression-free survival with...
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Adjuvant osimertinib extends DFS in localized NSCLC
- Author:
- Neil Osterweil
Osimertinib reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by 79% in patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.