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Compared with a single dose, more patients in the split-dose group had improved disease activity at 16 weeks, and fewer needed additional DMARDs, but the effect was not found at 24 weeks.

The approval allows for continuous immunotherapy treatment around surgery for resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

The agency approved the tyrosine kinase inhibitor for pediatric patients with chronic phase Ph+ chronic myelogenous leukemia that is newly diagnosed or resistant or intolerant to prior therapy.

Over the last few years, physicians have experimented with taking patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) off their drugs entirely, and the results are promising.

Protein changes in peripheral blood samples in the first 24 hours after starting chemotherapy could predict which patients with acute myeloid leukemia respond.

Children with more painful acute appendicitis appear to have less success with antibiotic treatment instead of surgery, researchers report.

Symptoms can be a high fever, fatigue, diarrhea, muscle pain, and low counts of white blood cells and platelets. It can take up to 2 weeks for symptoms to appear after a bite from an infected tick.

Oncologists argue that in differentiating myelodysplastic syndrome from acute myeloid leukemia, more than just bone marrow blast cutoff should be considered.

A study reinforces a link between appendicoliths and appendectomies after antibiotics, but its author said theres a surprising lack of connection for other factors that tilt patients toward surgery.

Older patients not eligible for intensive chemotherapy had higher complete remission rates and longer overall survival when ivosidenib was added onto azacitidine in the AGILE phase 3 trial.