Moffitt Cancer Center was granted $3.7 million from NCI’s Connecting Underrepresented Populations to Clinical Trials U01 Grants Program. The five-year, $3.7 million grant will help the cancer center develop new digital tools and community outreach strategies to reach Black and Hispanic cancer patients and physicians in the Tampa Bay community.
Researchers leading the SWOG S1712 clinical trial have found that adding ruxolitinib (Jakafi) to standard tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment for patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia significantly increased the percentage of patients who had a molecular response deep enough to warrant discontinuing treatment. Results were presented at the European School of Haematology’s 26th Annual John...
