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The FDA recently approved avelumab (Bavencio®, EMD Serono, Inc.) for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC). Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses with i3 Health the implication of this approval and future steps for research and offers community oncologists advice on treating this patient population. What are the most challenging aspects of treating patients...
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Friday, July 10, 2020
The FDA recently approved avelumab (Bavencio®, EMD Serono, Inc.) for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC). Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses with i3 Healt...
Thursday, July 09, 2020
Taking angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) is associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer within three years of...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
The FDA has approved oral decitabine/cedazuridine (Inqovi®, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) for the treatment of adult patients with either newly diagnosed or previously treate...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
The FDA approval process is in place to ensure that drugs are safe and effective before they are made available to the public. But do the clinical trials that lead to a...
Monday, July 06, 2020
A preplanned post-hoc analysis of the AVERT trial, a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial of apixaban for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE),...
Thursday, July 02, 2020
In patients with cancer who develop venous thromboembolism (VTE), cancer type plays a significant role in the risk of VTE recurrence after anticoagulation.A condition involv...
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The FDA recently approved avelumab (Bavencio®, EMD Serono, Inc.) for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC). Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses with i3 Health the implication of this approval and future step...
The FDA approval process is in place to ensure that drugs are safe and effective before they are made available to the public. But do the clinical trials that lead to approval truly ascertain whether a drug is efficaci...
Robert Yarchoan, MD, Chief of the HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), recently spoke with i3 Health about the approval of pomalidomide (Pomalyst®, Celgene) for Kaposi sarcoma in patients with...
In this interview with i3 Health, Suzanne Jan de Beur, MD, discusses the recent approval of burosumab-twza (Crysvita®, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc.), for patients with tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO) whose tumors are un...
In this interview, Alan S. Gamis, MD, MPH, speaks with i3 Health about the recent FDA approval of gemtuzumab ozogamicin (MylotargTM, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, LLC) for pediatric patients aged 1 month and older with newly diagn...
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Pre-activity assessment data from i3 Health's nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) activity "Understanding and Optimizing CAR T-Cell Therapy for Patients With B-Cell Malignancies" has revealed significant baseline kn...
At the 67th Society of Government Service Urologists (SGSU) Kimbrough Urological Seminar, held from January 15th to 19th, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina, i3 Health conducted a survey of participants regarding the formats i...
Pre-activity assessment data from i3 Health's continuing medical education (CME)/continuing nursing education (CNE) activity "Optimizing the Management of Advanced Cervical Cancer With Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy" has reveale...
Due to the increase in treatment options for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) in recent years, some confusion exists over the optimal therapeutic approach. A number of factors must be considered in CRPC treatment...
Optimal management of carcinoid syndrome in patients with neuroendocrine tumors poses a challenge, due to the fact that the primary symptoms of carcinoid syndrome are associated with more common diseases. Because timely rec...
