Specialty Pharmacy

Experts reviewed the efficacy and safety of the recommended treatment regimens and discussed which treatment strategy they would recommend for their patients.

In specialty pharmacy, many patients take steps to manage their prescription benefits before the new year.

Pharmacists have an important role in the optimization of AML therapies.

Data support daratumumab as part of a standard of care regimen in the frontline setting for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Myriam Mendila, MD, chief medical officer and global head of medical affairs at Novartis Oncology, discusses ongoing trials assessing efficacy and safety of asciminib in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Advancements in genomic and mutational analysis show that up to 60% of adenocarcinomas and up to 50% to 80% of squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) have a known oncogenic driver mutation.

The combination of tislelizumab and chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival.

Lindsey Roeker, MD at assistant attending L1, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her ASH 2021 presentation and addresses how the study design could affect future studies.

Myriam Mendila, MD, chief medical officer and global head of medical affairs at Novartis Oncology, discusses how the ASCEMBL study data may impact treatment strategies and approaches for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Lindsey Roeker, MD, assistant attending L1 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her ASH 2021 presentation and addresses the highlights of the study and how the add-on approach affect the treatment of CLL.

Lindsey Roeker, MD, assistant attending L1 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her ASH 2021 presentation and addresses how the addition of umbralisib and ublituximab affect those being treated with ibrutinib.

Myriam Mendila, MD, chief medical officer and global head of medical affairs at Novartis Oncology, discusses how asciminib has impacted the treatment landscape for chronic myeloid leukemia.

The multicenter phase 3 study randomized patients with R/R CLL 1:1 to receive acalabrutinib 100 mg orally twice daily or investigator’s choice of idelalisib plus rituximab or bendamustine plus rituximab until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Lindsey Roeker, MD, assistant attending L1 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her ASH 2021 presentation and addresses some of the challenges and risk of ibrutinib as treatment for CLL.

Myriam Mendila, MD, chief medical officer and global head of medical affairs at Novartis Oncology, discusses new longer-term efficacy and safety data from the pivotal phase 3 ASCEMBL study.

In a phase 1b trial, the combination therapy of acalabrutinib, venetoclax, and rituximab had a 100% clinical response rate and was well-tolerated in patients with treatment-naïve mantle cell lymphoma.

Pembrolizumab is the first anti-PD-1/anti-PD-L1 therapy to demonstrate a recurrence-free survival benefit in the adjuvant setting for melanoma.

Axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) was the first CAR T-cell immunotherapy to be approved for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Vosoritide is indicated to increase linear growth in pediatric patients with achondroplasia.

Acalabrutinib is a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi) intended for the treatment of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least 1 prior therapy.

Timely access to cancer treatment improves patient outcomes.

The investigators said that there were no new safety signals identified, and no reported instances of tumor lysis syndrome.

As some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical and biotech giants ramp up product development and commercialization, what was once a futuristic concept has become a reality.

Certain patients with breast cancer treated with an aromatase inhibitor plus palbociclib (Ibrance) could benefit from an early switch to fulvestrant (Faslodex) plus palbociclib, study finds.

Pyrotinib combined with capecitabine found to improve overall survival in patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Rylaze is a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma.

In the case reviewed, the pharmacy department created an interdisciplinary Biosimilar Task Force responsible for making decisions relating to the adoption of biosimilar therapies.

Pharmacy leaders can be equipped to make effective decisions to support a successful work experience, regardless of work setting.