Lymphoma

“Today’s approval represents another milestone in the rapidly progressing field of gene therapy,” said Peter Marks, MD, PhD, Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Ukoniq is the first dual inhibitor of PI3K-delta and CK1-epsilon to be approved by the FDA, and is the first targeted, once-daily oral therapy option for marginal-zone or follicular lymphoma.

Two oral health experts offer a thorough exploration of bone marrow transplants and how they relate to the mouth, with many tips for maintaining proper oral care during and after a transplant.

In January 2021, the FDA approved a new indication for Xalkori (crizotinib), an oral ALK inhibitor, for the treatment of young patients who are diagnosed with relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and ALK mutation. Xalkori was previously approved for metastatic lung cancer and ALK or ROS1 mutation.

Here are the drugs and financial support services available to patients receiving treatment for Lymphoma.

In July 2020, the FDA approved Monjuvi as a new treatment option for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma whose disease progressed after receiving other therapies.

The FDA approved Tecartus as the first gene therapy (or CAR T-cell therapy) for patients with mantle-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, that progressed after previous therapies.

A total of 80% of patients with relapsed (coming back) or refractory (not responding to therapy) slow-growing (indolent) non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)—including patients with follicular lymphoma or marginal-zone lymphoma (MZL)—achieved a complete response (no sign of cancer) to Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), an anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.

Treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda (permbrolizumab) significantly extended progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma compared with standard treatment with Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin), according to the results of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-204 clinical trial reported at the ASCO 2020 virtual annual meeting.