Hematology

Orphan drug status applies to therapies that will treat fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States.

Some cancers, such as breast cancer and leukemia, were well-funded compared with their incidence, mortality, and person-years of life lost, while others, such as gastrointestinal and brain cancers, were all poorly funded.

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant complication for patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who are being treated with immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), and a new assessment model may help to predict VTE in this population.

African Americans are twice as likely to get multiple myeloma (MM) as whites, but they get the disease at younger ages.

With the FDA approval of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) expanding the use of avatrombopag (Doptelet) for patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), Dova Pharmaceuticals said recently it will begin marketing the drug for the new indication in the middle of July.

A poster abstract evaluated real-world treatment patterns by region and age to better understand these issues in order to address them.

A new study by Mayo Clinic Researchers calls into question the current standard of care for treating smoldering multiple myeloma.

Researchers from the the University of Alabama finds the SIRT1 protein plays a key role in preventing chronic myeloid leukemia stem cell elimination.