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Oral Azacitidine Improves, Sustains Health-Related QoL in AML

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Treatment with the oral agent showed sustained health-related quality of life compared with placebo in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, according to results of the phase 3 QUAZAR AML-001 trial. Treatment with oral azacitidine (CC-486) showed sustained health-related quality…

Guang-Shing Cheng, M.D.

Institution
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
About
Dr. Guang-Shing Cheng is Associate Professor in the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutch in Seattle. Dr. Cheng is a pulmonologist who focuses on improving outcomes for cancer patients who have respiratory failure and lung complications related to their cancer treatments. She is developing new ways to prevent lung damage and improve lung function in these patients. Dr. Cheng’s main interest is bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, a serious complication of blood stem cell transplantation. She also studies the role of respiratory viruses and other infectious pathogens in lung disease in

Talati Highlights “Game-Changing” Potential of Venetoclax/HMA Combos for Elderly AML

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Chetasi Talati, MD, discusses early results from a multicenter chart review examining treatment patterns and outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed AML who received venetoclax/HMA combinations in the real-world setting and the next phase of the ongoing research initiative…

ASH Issues Guidelines on Newly Diagnosed AML in Older Adults

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In evidence-based guidelines issued by the American Society of Hematology and published in the Aug. 11 issue of Blood Advances, recommendations are presented for the management of newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in older adults. Mikkael A. Sekeres, M.D., from the…

Mychaela Dances Again, Thanks to her Mother's Advocacy

My name is Mychaela Lovelace. I had been a healthy five-year-old child until one day, when I came home, my mother noticed red dots and bruises on my body. Because she worked in the medical field, she was very concerned. She took me to the doctor, but my pediatrician wasn’t on in the office that day. The doctor I didn’t know said that I was just playing too hard and the dots and bruises were just a rash.

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