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Immunotherapy Takes the Lead in Advanced Cutaneous Malignancies

Pharmacy Times

Blood cancer patients are usually at higher risk due to prior chemotherapy, and maybe we don’t need the same kind of prophylactic medications for solid tumor patients. I think we’re getting to the point now where hematology and oncology both need services that can manage these types of side effects. The infection risks are a little different.

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Understanding Recent Changes to 505(b)(2) Drugs and Reimbursement

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“This act…allowed a pathway for manufacturers to create a ‘copy’ of a licensed patent product to make it cheaper and more discounted,” Soefje, director of pharmacy cancer care services and associate professor of pharmacy at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said at the HOPA conference.

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Pharmacists Take the Lead on Advanced Therapeutics

Pharmacy Times

Tichy, PharmD, MBA, vice chair of pharmacy formulary for Mayo Clinic, explained. Newsletter Stay informed on drug updates, treatment guidelines, and pharmacy practice trends—subscribe to Pharmacy Times for weekly clinical insights. This governance issue is a very hot topic,” Eric M. Subscribe Now!

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TRE-5151 Receives FDA Fast Track Designation in Combination With Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

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TRE-515 Combined With a Radiopharmaceutical As a precision cancer treatment designed for adults with PSMA-positive mCRPC, lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan is used after individuals have undergone other treatments like androgen receptor pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy. Mayo Clinic. News release.

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Navigating EGFR Mutations and ALK Fusions in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pharmacy Times

1 Biomarker testing is relatively new in the treatment landscape for NSCLC but has proven incredibly important for personalizing patient care, transforming from a generic chemotherapy approach to a highly personalized, genomically driven treatment strategy. For advanced disease, chemotherapy was the standard.

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Sustained-release chemotherapy has potential for bladder cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new, sustained-release chemotherapy delivery device inserted into the bladder, facilitated tumour response, a study has reported. The intravesical device, TAR-200, provides continuous, low-dose, local delivery of gemcitabine chemotherapy. In these patients, no evidence of bladder cancer was found at the follow-up.

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Innovation in chemotherapy: Leading companies in platinum-based cancer drug compositions

Pharmaceutical Technology

Platinum-based cancer drug compositions is a key innovation area in chemotherapy Platinum-based drugs are chemotherapeutic agents used for the treatment of cancer. Several platinum-based drugs such as cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin are widely used in cancer therapy.