acute lymphoblastic leukemia

NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Pediatric ALL Bookmark

PDF from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network curated by Contributing Editor George Lundberg, MD, who notes: 

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has issued a 2020 edition of its Guidelines for Patients about Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)—An Overview Bookmark

Curated by Editor in Chief George Lundberg, MD, who notes:

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (also known as childhood leukemia) is a serious but often treatable form of leukemia. This authoritative presentation from Medscape is recent, trustworthy, and comprehensive.

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A Cancer Doctor Weighs In On CAR-T, Precision Medicine And Pricing Debates Bookmark

Excerpt:

“Yesterday’s historic FDA approval of the first engineered T-cell treatment for cancer, Novartis’ Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), was accompanied by inevitable questions about how the product would be priced. In the end, Novartis set the price at $475,000, which was lower than many analysts had predicted, considering the treatment is designed to cure some forms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)—and in clinical trials it did just that for most patients.”

Go to full article published by Forbes on Aug 31, 2017.

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