News and Treatment Updates

Here's where you'll find a regularly updated, broad range of articles written by the AAMDSIF team, allied health organizations and news organizations. By staying well-informed, patients and families are practicing a form of self-support that will help them be more effective self-advocates when engaging with health care providers.

Effective treatment of low risk acute GVHD with itacitinib monotherapy

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Key Points Itacitinib monotherapy is as effective as systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of low risk acute GVHD. Itacitinib monotherapy resulted in fewer serious infections compared to systemic corticosteroids. The standard primary treatment for acute graft vs host disease…

Patients With MPNs Must Be Honest About Their Symptoms, Says Expert

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It is incredibly important that patients with MPNs inform their health care team of any symptoms they are experiencing, according to an expert from The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. Because patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) or…

Servier Announces FDA Approval of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib tablets) in Combination with Azacitidine for Patients with Newly Diagnosed IDH1-mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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BOSTON, May 25, 2022 – Servier, a leader in oncology committed to bringing the promise of tomorrow to the patients we serve, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib tablets) in combination with azacitidine for the treatment…

The Rise of the Expert Patient in Cancer: From Backseat Passenger to Co-navigator

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PURPOSE: Patients who have cancer have leveraged the Internet to gain a better understanding of their disease and connect across geographic boundaries with others facing the same challenges. Online cancer communities have developed into resources that highlight new research and…

Student view: Donor diversity saves lives

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Editor's note: Here's an update on Mychaela (see Stories of Hope) Mychaela Lovelace is a sophomore at Michigan State University majoring in kinesiology in the College of Education, and is a scholar and mentor in the Dow STEM Scholars Program. On April 1, 2008, at the age of 5 I…

Seeing Cancer From All Sides: Richard M. Stone Is Giant of Cancer Care in Leukemia

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Driven by his mother’s advice and his father’s memory, Richard M. Stone, MD, rose to become a global leader in leukemia care and research. Growing up, Richard M. Stone, MD, thought he was going to be an attorney like his father, but his direction in life changed when he was 15…

Research Identifies How Gene Mechanisms Influence Pediatric MDS

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Each year, approximately 1 in every 1 million infants is diagnosed with pediatric myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a group of rare disorders characterized by the abnormal or deficient formation of blood cells in the bone marrow. However, researchers wanted to understand the…

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