Leukemia News

Matt Kalaycio, MD, FACP, has been elected chair of National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s board of directors.

An innovative combination of drug sensitivity testing and genomics helped identify therapeutic options for children with relapsed or refractory solid or hematologic malignancies, according to results published in Nature Medicine.

Parents of children with cancer made mental health visits, including those for anxiety and depression, significantly more often than other parents, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Exclusive breastfeeding for at least 3 months was associated with reduced childhood hematologic cancer risk vs. shorter breastfeeding durations, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Among elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia, survival outcomes for those who received an allogenic stem cell transplant have improved significantly over the past 2 decades, according to data published in Clinical Cancer Research.

More than 20% of reported cases of adverse events following bispecific T-cell engager therapies involved a cardiovascular event, findings reported in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer showed.

Most of the major cancer clinical trial centers in the U.S. are located near more affluent and white populations compared with the national average, according to results published in JAMA Oncology.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to ponatinib with chemotherapy for the treatment of adults with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to a press release.

Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD, has been named senior vice president for drug discovery and chief research strategy officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, according to a press release.