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“[W]e should strive to increase the [number] of patients…who enjoy long-term disease-free survival and possibly cure,” said Meletios Dimopoulos, MD.
This video examines a phase I/II study of ibrutinib in patients with chronic GVHD who failed corticosteroids.
Chronic graft vs host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, and among patients who fail corticosteroids there remains an unmet need for an effective therapy.
In this video, Lori Styles, MD, medical director of Pharmacyclics in Sunnyvale, California, discusses a phase I/II study of ibrutinib in patients with chronic GVHD who failed corticosteroids.
Results of the trial (
![“[W]e should strive to increase the [number] of patients…who enjoy long-term disease-free survival and possibly cure,” said Meletios Dimopoulos, MD.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/cancernetwork/c7abebf9344f9b1be9aee80d9879d139c1655bcc-1200x1197.jpg?w=350&fit=crop&auto=format)





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