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Researchers suggested that the use of the oral agent over a prolonged period of time should now be considered part of the overall treatment plan in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Stephen Schuster, MD, talked about the benefits of conducting routine visits remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing doctors to see and treat more patients safely and efficiently.

Stephen Schuster, MD, discussed how they are prioritizing patients with more aggressive lymphomas, with emphasis on tumor volume and serum LDH levels during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The lymphoma and myeloma expert indicated that one of the key ways to address these disparities in lymphoma and myeloma is to improve minority and rural accrual in clinical trials.

Stephen Schuster, MD, explained how Penn Medicine is utilizing at-home treatments, which will continue after the pandemic, to maximize safety and reduce hospital traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stephen Schuster, MD, of Penn Medicine discussed testing for COVID-19, telemedicine and how they are adjusting their treatment of patients with aggressive lymphomas during the pandemic.

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Researchers found that 2 studied strategies, which combined nivolumab and doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine, are feasible, highly effective, and result in excellent 12-month progression-free survival.

SGX301 is being evaluated for the treatment of patients with early-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in the pivotal phase III FLASH study, which demonstrated that continued treatment twice weekly for 12 weeks increased the positive response rate.

In this study, the feasibility and safety of DETECT-A coupled with PET-CT imaging to detect cancer was evaluated using a prospective, interventional study of 10,006 women not previously known to have cancer.