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Awdishu describes the implementation of new equations to accurately drug dose in patients as well as provide updated guidance on the dosing of older medications.

Leung discusses that various cancer types and drugs can cause thrombotic microangiopathy and impact kidney health and the renal complications connected to hematologic malignancies.

Nephrotoxic care can be improved with better risk score assessment and provider education.

Improvements in AI could change the way pharmacists and providers interact with, and care for, patients.

Coca notes the importance of precision medicine in CKD risk assessment and describes the potential impact multiple therapies can have on future CKD prediction and treatment in the future.

The principal investigator of the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh notes that enhancing endogenous repair can lead to a breakthrough in AKI treatment.

The increased costs for patients with recurrent hyperkalemia were driven by the increased inpatient medical cost of additional time spent in the hospital following recurrence.

An analysis of the REVOLUTIONIZE II study data showed that there is an unmet need for long-term outpatient treatment of hyperkalemia in patients with CKD.

Outside of dialysis and transplantations, implantable artificial kidneys present an additional option for treating kidney disease, according to an expert.

With a new administration protocol created specifically for the routine clinic, infectious disease physicians can treat recurrent clostridioides difficile infection in less than 3 weeks.

Christina Barrington, PharmD, vice president of pharmacy programs at Priority Health, discusses current disruptors in the marketplace and high-cost drugs.

Viktor Grunwald, MD, PhD, discusses the post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 CLEAR trial investigating the combination treatment in the first-line setting for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Compared to chemotherapy alone, amivantamab plus chemotherapy treatment with and without lazertinib had also demonstrated positive trends in OS and ORR in patients with NSCLC.

Compared to osimertinib alone, first-line treatment with amivantamab plus lazertinib was also shown to improve progression-free survival and have an increased duration of response.

Patients with previously untreated HLA-A*02:01+ mUM saw improvements in OS, PFS, and ctDNA clearance.

Compared to placebo plus chemotherapy, nivolumab plus chemotherapy had also improved event-free survival and both pathological complete response and major pathologic response rates.

According to investigators, additional research is necessary to further understand how lutetium impacts overall survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer.

The trial data showed ongoing clinical benefit in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who completed pembrolizumab and continued on lenvatinib vs chemotherapy alone.

Compared to chemotherapy alone, amivantamab plus chemotherapy had a better objective response rate and prolonged progression-free survival and overall survival.

This is the first phase 3 trial to evaluate a KRAS G12C-inhibitor plus an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibody for this type of colorectal cancer.

The novel combination met the co-primary endpoints of progression-free survival and overall survival during the CheckMate -901 trial, also demonstrating sizeable improvement in objective response.

Oncology leaders and pharma representatives discuss collaboration best practices.

Not only did taletrectinib shrink tumors in 92% of patients who were tyrosine kinase inhibitor -naïve, but 89.5% of patients continued to respond to treatment at 12 months.

Compared to endocrine therapy alone, the combination of ribociclib and endocrine therapy lowered the risk of cancer recurrence in patients with early breast cancer by 25.2%.

Saira A. Jan, MS, PharmD, discussed a novel pilot program in New Jersey aiming to expand home infusion services in oncology.

The statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival is “practice-changing” and may represent a “paradigm shift” in treatment, according to experts.

Timothy O’Shea, MS, PharmD, discussed the growth of home infusion programs and how they benefit patients.

Kimberly Maxfield, PhD, discussed pharmacist’s role to aid patients when switching to a biosimilar