Tag: Leukemia

Jan62025 by adminNo Comments

CAR-T Warning for Secondary Malignancies: Warranted or Not?

Oncology/Hematology > Leukemia — FDA boxed warning led to multiple studies on the issue in 2024 by Mike Bassett, Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 5, 2025 Early in 2024, we reported on the FDA's call for new boxed warnings on the labeling of all approved chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for the potential risk for secondary T-cell malignancies. In this report, we follow up on what has happened since. In January 2024, the FDA mandated new boxed warnings on approved B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)- or CD19-di...

Sep252024 by adminNo Comments

Cancer Risk: Are Pesticides the New Smoking?

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Pesticides have actually changed modern-day farming by increasing production yields and assisting ease food insecurity amidst fast international population development. From a public health point of view, direct exposure to pesticides has actually been connected to many damaging results, consisting of neurologic conditions like Parkinson's illness, compromised immune function, and an increased threat for cancer.Pesticide direct exposure has actually been related to cancers such as colorectal cancer, lung cancer, leukemia (in kids and grownups), lymphoma, and pancreatic cancer. These research studies mostly have actually focused on particular groups of people with recognized direct exposure to specific pesticides or cancer types, therefore providing a restricted viewpoint.A detailed evaluat...