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Improvements were observed regardless of whether patients initiated ruxolitinib in the second or third line of treatment.

Daily operational tasks and quality assurance measures in pharmacy compounding ensures patient safety and maintains compliance.

The pumps can now be used to treat pediatric patients who have symptomatic acute decompensated heart failure and cardiogenic shock.

Compared with placebo, patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) follicular lymphoma (FL) who were treated with tafasitamab showed a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 22.4 months.

Ira Zackon, MD, explains where future research lies regarding the implementation of bispecific antibodies in community oncology settings.

The novel camizestrant-ribociclib combination demonstrated encouraging data in advanced, pre-treated ER+/HER2- breast cancer.

Breast cancer prevention vaccines could have significant positive societal impact by reducing cancer diagnoses.

Novel therapies and personalized treatment plans are improving outcomes for patients with ER-positive breast cancer.

Currently, the treatment is undergoing evaluation in a phase 2a trial.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan and trastuzumab emtansine address key challenges such as recurrence and metastases in HER2+ early breast cancer treatment.

Pharmacists can help drive the successful adoption of biosimilars by developing educational programs to address provider and patient concerns.

This update follows May 2021 guidelines which recommended patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) with advanced cirrhosis discontinue obeticholic acid.

The combination of elacestrant and abemaciclib showed promising 8.7-month progression-free survival in ER+, HER2- advanced breast cancer, including in patients with ESR1 mutations.

Pharmacists play an essential role in educating patients about various health-related topics, including type 2 diabetes and nutrition.

Pharmacists are crucial skin care experts and should counsel patients on the importance of adjunct therapies like moisturizers and sunscreen when using certain medications.

The full results will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at a medical meeting next year as the full results are evaluated.

Compared prednisolone alone, benralizumab with and without prednisolone resulted in fewer treatment failures and stronger VAS scores.

Patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) were most likely to receive belumosudil in the fourth line (33.7%) setting or the fifth through seventh line (33.1%).

The assessment of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes can provide valuable insights to guide personalized treatment decisions for breast cancer patients.

At the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, experts discussed the development, clinical impact, and challenges of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).

Both risk-reducing mastectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy were associated with significant improvements among young BRCA carriers with breast cancer.

Assessing pre-treatment TIL levels in young breast cancer patients could help predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

The combination vaccine candidates will be evaluated in 2 separate phase 1/2 clinical trials.

Experts highlight the importance of dosing and regimen optimization in breast cancer to improve treatment tolerability, reduce toxicities, and improve quality of life for patients.

Rural patients face significant barriers to health care access and affordability that contribute to poor hypertension management.

Komal Jhaveri MD, FACP, shares that the combination of imlunestrant plus abemaciclib further improved progression-free survival compared to imlunestrant alone.

PLT012 demonstrates its potential against multiple tumors with unmet medical needs.

Dose rounding within an acceptable range can provide cost savings and minimize waste, but requires careful interprofessional collaboration and patient education.

According to the report, 75% of survey participants expect pharmacists to oversee these therapies and 58% expect Medicare will require pharmacist involvement.

Virginia Kaklamani, MD, DSc, shares the role of ESR1 mutation testing and combination strategies to optimize endocrine therapy in patients with metastatic HR+/HER2- breast cancer.