Results of a phase II clinical trial conducted at MD Anderson Cancer Center revealed combination targeted therapy, consisting of rituximab, lenalidomide, and ibrutinib, had an 84.6% overall response rate and 38.5% complete response rate when given prior to any chemotherapy for newly diagnosed patients with a specific type of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
