Jared is a freelance writer for The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), and previously worked as a senior editor for HCPLive® at MJH Life Sciences®.
He has an MA from University of Sioux Falls. You can connect with Jared on LinkedIn.
Investigators Find Potential Biomarker for Platinum-Based Chemotherapy Response in NSCLC
January 10th 2023Patients who had non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with homologous recombination gene mutations had better outcomes, although no single gene in the pathway appeared to have a causal role.
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Concurrent Antibiotics, Steroids Raise CDI Risk in People With Lung Cancer Receiving EGFR-TKIs
January 9th 2023The new report found no evidence that second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) were more likely to lead to Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in patients with lung cancer.
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Cannabis Used With ICIs Appears to Have No Impact on NSCLC Outcomes
December 7th 2022Differences in overall survival between cannabis users and those who did not use the plant were small and could be explained by differences in the make-ups of the 2 cohorts of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, researchers said.
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Can Work as Salvage Treatment in Relapsed MM Following BCMA-Directed CAR T
November 18th 2022New data show patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy as salvage therapy tended to have meaningful results despite treatment failure following B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) CAR T.
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EHR Data Show MM Treatment Burden Higher Than Chronic Lymphoid Leukemia
November 14th 2022This new study shows how using electronic health record (EHR) data can objectively quantify patient treatment burden among individuals who have multiple myeloma (MM) compared with patient-reported outcomes, which can be subject to recall bias.
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Doubling Women’s Lung Cancer Research Funding Would Generate Major Returns, Study Says
November 13th 2022Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the United States, yet relatively little research funding is spent on the issue, the authors of a new study say.
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