VOLUME 02 | NUMBER 08 | AUGUST 2016
Around the Network
IN THIS ISSUE
on location
Conference Coverage
Highlights from the European Hematology Association’s
21st Annual Congress and the ASH Meeting on Lymphoma
Biology.
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clinical news
20 Brentuximab Vedotin Leads to Long-Term
Remissions in Relapsed/Refractory HL
Have Companion
Diagnostics Proven
Their Mettle?
23 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation:
Predicting Thrombosis in AML
26 Hydrocortisone Helps Reduce
Neuropsychologic Adverse Events for
Pediatric ALL Patients on Dexamethasone
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Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute
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Cleveland Clinic
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Alice Ma, MD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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David Steensma, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA
Companion diagnostics are being paired with targeted
therapies to identify patients who would benefit from – or
be harmed by– a drug. We spoke with regulators and
device developers about the challenges of using genomic
abnormalities to guide the treatment of blood cancers.
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