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Vidaza prolongs survival in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes

Results Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology Meeting

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Continued treatment with vidaza can benefit MDS patients

The Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Foundation announced today that a new analysis of the AZA-001 phase III clinical trial demonstrates that continued treatment with VIDAZA (azacitidine) can improve response rates for higher-risk MDS patients.

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Promising new drug blocks mutation in bone marrow cancers

Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers have found that an experimental drug successfully blocks an enzyme that causes some bone marrow cancers.

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Race a factor in receiving transplant treatment for bone marrow cancer

A new study by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center Milwaukee, has found that African Americans and whites have identical survival rates after undergoing autologous (self donor) bone marrow transplant treatment for a common cancer of the bone marrow (multiple myeloma).

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Study leads to protein linked to bone marrow failure in humans

The study of dark-skinned mice has led to a surprising finding about a common protein involved in tumor suppression, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The results may lead to new treatments for bone marrow failure in humans.

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Oral drug sets new survival standard for bone marrow cancer

Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania announced today that findings from two large, international clinical trials show unprecedented survival for patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow.

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New Survival Standard for Bone Marrow Cancer

Findings from two large, international clinical trials show “unprecedented” survival for patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow. The findings demonstrate that with Revlimid®, an oral cancer drug, all measures of myeloma showed significant improvement in patients where previous treatments had failed.

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Drug combination slows progression of treatment resistant bone marrow cancer

Combining a newly formulated drug with one that is already a standard treatment slows the progression of multiple myeloma, an advanced cancer of the bone marrow cells, according to a clinical trial led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine researcher.

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Drug combination proves effective against myeloma in Phase I trial

Two "new generation" drugs for the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma may work even better together than they do individually, according to the results of a multicenter Phase I clinical trial to be presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in Orlando, Fla.

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