Proposed Trial Would Be First Ever for Novel Two-Pronged Immunotherapy Strategy
November 13th 2015Roswell Park Cancer Institute is taking the final steps toward what we believe would be the first-ever clinical trial combining two novel and highly promising techniques: adoptive cellular therapy utilizing re-engineered mature T cells and re-engineered adult hematopoietic stem cells.
Narrow Networks: Great Cancer Centers Need Not Apply
Insurance plans that limit which doctors have in-network status have become a mainstay of healthcare, helping keep costs down but stoking concerns and complaints from hospital administrators and regulators about patients' access to care.
Dr. Wetzler Discusses the Use of Arsenic Trioxide in APL
March 26th 2013Meir Wetzler, MD, Chief, Leukemia Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses a study presented at the 2012 American Society of Hematology Meeting analyzing arsenic trioxide in acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Lenalidomide Maintenance After Stem-Cell Transplantation Benefits Patients With Multiple Myeloma
Lenalidomide used continuously after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation significantly prolonged the time to disease progression and overall survival in patients with multiple myeloma.