Specialty Pharmacy

New composite pharmacy adherence measure is a major step in developing standard pharmacy performance measures focused on improving patient care.

Ixazomib (Ninlaro, Takeda) has been found to improve survival in patients with multiple myeloma who have not undergone autologous stem cell transplant.

Diroximel fumarate (Vumerity) is indicated for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.

Larotrectinib was the first drug to receive accelerated FDA approval for patients of all ages based on a common molecular marker, independent of tissue origin for targeted therapy.

Applying these findings in practice could improve clinicians’ ability to offer truly personalized cancer therapy by enabling consideration of toxicity along with other data predicting patients’ responses.

Selinexor demonstrated a 37% increase in probability that patients treated with the drug will be in remission at 12 months.

The uncommon disease shares features of both lymphoma and myeloma.

The results of a pilot program investigating the efficacy of remote patient monitoring for patients with cancer showed that it helped to keep high-risk individuals out of the hospital.

Communication, flexibility, and virtual solutions will remain key as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Effective specialty pharmacies learn to meet the changing needs of patients and stakeholders.

Trametinib emerged as a novel therapeutic approach for low-grade serous carcinoma due to a high prevalence of activating mutations in the mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking at least 3 targeted therapies were found to have a greater risk of developing herpes zoster.

New study results show that the drugs, which block estrogen production, are more effective for premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Ned Milenkovich, PharmD, JD, licensed pharmacist and principal at Much Law, PC, discusses the announcement of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, which will, in some cases, offer expensive medication at a drastically lower price without insurance.

Christopher Mast, MD, vice president of clinical informatics at Epic, explains his outlook for the future in the field of oncology in light of the ongoing delays in cancer screenings rates.

Patients receiving brentuximab vedotin plus doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine in the frontline setting had a 41% reduction in the risk of death.

Christopher Mast, MD, vice president of clinical informatics at Epic, explains the level to which cancer screening rates would need to rise to meet pre-pandemic rates.

Results from a clinical trial led by investigators at the National Cancer Institute show that 28 of 42 women with tumors generated a reaction.

Christopher Mast, MD, vice president of clinical informatics at Epic, discusses research that showed that cancer screening rates in 2021 rebounded from the low rates at the start of the pandemic, but not significantly.

The novel CAR T cells can deliver a toxic drug payload directly to a tumor, killing tumor cells that contain the cancer marker and nearby cancer cells that do not.

Darolutamide exerts its effects via competitive inhibition of androgen binding.

The trial studied 3 dosing regimens of asparaginase erwinia chrysanthemi (recombinant)-rywn, with cohort 1a receiving 25 mg/m2administered Monday and Wednesday and 50 mg/m2administered on Friday.

Well-defined core values can take pharmacy operations to the next level.

The prior authorization process often involves complex transactions and increases the burden not only on physicians and pharmacies, but can also impact patient access.

In a clinical trial, the median annualized bleeding rates for all bleeds was reduced from a historical median of 5 to an on-study median of 2.3, which is a 54.7% reduction.

Further, the 1-year update suggests that Cohort 6 toxicity management strategy can improve certain AEs without compromising the activity of axicabtagene ciloleucel.

Umbralisib (Ukoniq) is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma and relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.

Abemaciclib (Verzenio) was recently approved in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with HR–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer at high risk of recurrence.

Interventions to improve medication adherence may have a greater impact on individual patients and the population as a whole than any novel treatment or therapy.

The tislelizumab combination met the primary endpoint of OS in patients with programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression, with additional follow-up needed to assess OS benefits in the intention-to-treat population.