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Quality of Life Comparison: Blood Cancer Patients on Clinical Trials Versus Patients in Standard Care

Quality of Life Comparison: Blood Cancer Patients on Clinical Trials Versus Patients in Standard Care

Teresa Hagan Thomas, PhD, RN

Treatment | July 12, 2022

New cancer treatments depend on clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of treating specific types of cancer, but enrollment in clinical trials remains incredibly low, especially among patients from racial and ethnic minority groups. One of the main concerns that keeps patients from electing to enroll in a trial is that their quality of life will suffer more than if they opted for standard treatment. Patients’ quality of life encompasses many aspects, including their physical, social, and emotional health; their perception of the quality of care they receive; and the ...

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Quality of Life Comparison: Blood Cancer Patients on Clinical Trials Versus Patients in Standard Care

Quality of Life Comparison: Blood Cancer Patients on Clinical Trials Versus Patients in Standard Care

Teresa Hagan Thomas, PhD, RN

Treatment | July 12, 2022

One concern that keeps patients from enrolling in clinical trials is the belief that their quality of life will suffer.

What’s New: Oral Chronic GVHD Incidence Even Decades After SCT

What’s New: Oral Chronic GVHD Incidence Even Decades After SCT

Elaine S. DeMeyer, RN, MSN, AOCN®, BMTCN®

GVHD | June 27, 2022

Patients who receive a transplant at a young age may experience GVHD symptoms decades later, like oral chronic GVHD.

Determining the Optimal Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Exposure in Haploidentical Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

Determining the Optimal Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Exposure in Haploidentical Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

Patrick Daly

Hematology & Blood Cancer | March 24, 2022

Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is used in conditioning prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute ...

Black Patients are Under-Represented in Pivotal CAR T-Cell Clinical Trials

Black Patients are Under-Represented in Pivotal CAR T-Cell Clinical Trials

Ariel Jones

Conferences | December 18, 2021

Pivotal trials that supported FDA approval of CAR T-cell therapies had low proportions of Black patients enrolled.

Younger MCL Patients Have Sustained Benefit of Cytarabine Pre-Transplant Conditioning

Younger MCL Patients Have Sustained Benefit of Cytarabine Pre-Transplant Conditioning

Ariel Jones

Conferences | December 17, 2021

These findings were presented at the 2021 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.

Polatuzumab Vetodin Plus R-CHP Reduces Risk of Disease Progression or Death in Newly Diagnosed DLBCL

Polatuzumab Vetodin Plus R-CHP Reduces Risk of Disease Progression or Death in Newly Diagnosed DLBCL

Ariel Jones

Conferences | December 17, 2021

Hervé Tilly, MD, of Centre Henri Becquerel and University of Rouen in France, presented the new research at ASH 2021.

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