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Insights From ASCO 2025 Guide Pharmacy Practice in Solid Tumors and Hematologic Cancers

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The updated definition for HRMM is increasingly important as there is an increased focus on how to improve outcomes for patients with HRMM, functional HRMM, and true extramedullary disease. The findings of the DeLLphi-304 study demonstrated improved OS of tarlatamab compared with single-agent chemotherapy (median OS [mOS], 13.6

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Reinventing Transplant Care: From Inpatient Tradition to Outpatient Innovation

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I think it’ll be chemotherapy—maybe their cells being given outpatient—and then, as we hit their hardest time or their highest risk for either febrile neutropenia or mucositis or even some of the toxicities from the chemotherapy, we have them inpatient until we feel comfortable, and then transition it so that it could be all outpatient.

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Pharmacists Take the Lead on Advanced Therapeutics

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I’m coming at it from the perspective of understanding the science behind it… When you talk about manipulating genes, that definitely tends to put some people off,” she said. “I Trinkman noted the hesitancy some patients have shown toward gene therapies, emphasizing the need for greater education about how these therapies work. Subscribe Now!

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Ipsen to buy biopharmaceutical company Epizyme for $247m

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Ipsen has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company Epizyme, for an initial total consideration of $247m. The transaction is focused on Epizyme’s lead asset, Tazverik (tazemetostat), a chemotherapy-free EZH2 a inhibitor. for each share. for each share.

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Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs

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Workplace activity involves how healthcare workers use and handle the drug in the workplace - such as opening shipments, compounding, administering or cleaning up after use or spills. Oral hazardous drugs No crushing or compounding may be done in an unprotected environment.

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Building a Successful Inventory Management System with Nicole Clausen

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But if it’s completely unavailable, start by looking at alternatives, whether compounded or a similar product. If something that is not an emergency product expires, I definitely like to evaluate it first before repurchasing the same thing again. Do we need to get a smaller container size next time?

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2020 review – Pharma’s progress outside of COVID-19

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While Trodelvy is already conditionally approved in the US, the data showing the drug improved overall survival compared with chemotherapy could be enough for it to clinch a permanent licence in the US. months in patients treated with chemotherapy. In the 500 patient trial, patients treated with Trodelvy lived for a median of 12.1