Tag Archives: Therapy

Global trial shows CAR T therapy can lead to durable remissions in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

In an update to a global clinical trial stretching from Philadelphia to four continents, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah® (tisagenlecleucel, formerly CTL019) led to long-lasting remissions in patients with relapsed/refractory (r/r) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The most recent results from the trial will be presented today at the 60th American… Read More: Global trial shows CAR T therapy can lead to durable… »

At two years, Gilead lymphoma therapy active in 40 percent of patients

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Nearly 40 percent of lymphoma patients treated with a single infusion of Gilead Sciences Inc’s Yescarta continued to respond to the cell therapy after at least two years of follow up, the company said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: A Gilead Sciences, Inc. office is shown in Foster City, California, U.S. May… Read More: At two years, Gilead lymphoma therapy active in 40 percent… »

Novartis's pricing might be tested with costly eye therapy

ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis’s price-setting muscle is about to be tested after it won European Union approval for a blindness-fighting gene therapy whose $ 850,000 list cost in the United States has been labeled too expensive by some groups. FILE PHOTO: A Novartis logo is pictured on its headquarters building in Mumbai April 1, 2013.… Read More: Novartis's pricing might be tested with costly eye therapy »