According to a study presented at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, children born to women who received chemotherapy during pregnancy do not appear to have an increased risk of heart or cognitive problems. Since relatively few women are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, data regarding the effects of chemotherapy during pregnancy are limited. Determining [...]
A large proportion of cancer patients do not enroll in clinical trials, and those who do participate may not adequately represent age groups, cancer stages, cancer types, and racial and ethnic groups. These findings were recently reported in the Annals of Surgery. Clinical trials are the process through which medications ultimately become approved by the [...]
The targeted therapy Adcetris™ (brentuximab vedotin) has received accelerated approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of two types of lymphoma: Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system. It typically begins in the lymph nodes in one region of [...]
An ongoing study of the experimental drug panobinostat (LBH-589) reports promising activity in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed and refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). These findings were presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system. It is diagnosed by the presence of [...]
Among patients with early-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a favorable prognosis, it may be possible to reduce the number of chemotherapy cycles and the dose of radiation therapy without adversely affecting outcome. The results of this study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system and [...]
Children and adolescents with relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma respond well to allogeneic stem cell transplantation, according to the results of a study published in Blood.[1] Although children and adolescents with Hodgkin’s lymphoma have an excellent prognosis, some do relapse. These patients may benefit from stem cell transplantation, which involves the delivery of high doses of chemotherapy, [...]
