March 25th 2023
A cohort study identified factors associated with late deaths in childhood cancer survivors.
FDA Grants Ibrutinib Approval for Pediatric Graft-Versus-Host-Disease
August 26th 2022Ibrutinib is now an FDA-approved treatment for patients aged 1 year or older who have chronic graft-versus-host-disease. Prescription warnings include bleeding and cardiac problems, infections, high blood pressure, a decrease in blood cell count, and tumor lysis syndrome.
FDA Approves Radiopharmaceutical Diagnostic Agent for Pediatric Patients
June 10th 2021The FDA approved injectable technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept (Lymphoseek), a radiopharmaceutical agent that targets lymphatic mapping and guiding for sentinel lymph node biopsies (SLNB), for use in pediatric patients with melanoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and other solid tumors.
FDA Approves Crizotinib for Pediatric/Young Adult ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
January 15th 2021The FDA has approved crizotinib (Xalkori) for the treatment of pediatric patients 1 year of age and older and young adults with ALK-positive relapsed or refractory, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL).
FDA Approves Pralsetinib for RET-Altered Thyroid Cancers
December 2nd 2020The FDA approved pralsetinib (Gavreto) for adults and children aged 12 or older with advanced or metastatic RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) who need systemic therapy or RET fusion-positive thyroid cancer who require systemic therapy and are radioactive iodine-refractory.