Bone Marrow Transplant

SAN DIEGO — Eltrombopag conferred a higher rate of durable platelet response in the absence of rescue treatments than standard first-line treatments for children with newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia, according to study results.

I’m Luca Paruzzo, MD, a hematologist/oncologist working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Marco Ruella, MD.

CHICAGO — During her fellowship as a palliative care physician, Sunita Puri, MD, met a patient who taught her that healing is possible even when cure is not.

Jae Park, MD, compared the moment to a baby being born.

CHICAGO — In this video, Henry Chi Hang Fung, MD, FACP, FRCPE, spoke with Healio about a study in older patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of five stories from ASCO Voices, a session during the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting focused on the human side of oncology.

Researchers have created a novel tool that predicts a person’s risk for cardiovascular complications after bone marrow transplantation.

Palliative care significantly improved quality of life among patients hospitalized for bone marrow transplant, according to results of a multicenter randomized trial.

A multi-institutional team of researchers created a statistical model capable of predicting the risk for premature menopause among women who survived childhood cancer.

A sequential chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation strategy conferred remissions in certain patients with relapsed or refractory CD7-positive hematologic cancers.