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Update in systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma (Plenary) - Dec 26, 2023 - Abstract #LCS2024LCS_148; There are no meaningful differences in efficacy for any of these drugs evaluated in the 2nd setting and the best treatment sequences of the available drugs have not been established. Learning objectives - Understand endpoints in clinical trials and its implication for daily decision making.- Learning about the latest developments in the systemic therapies in early and advanced stage HCC.- Finding out about the most recent criteria for selection of systemic therapies- Gaining insight in clinical and molecular biomarkers for systemic therapies
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Aptamers targeting HuR SUMOylation as a potential therapy for liver cancer (ePoster Area) - Dec 26, 2023 - Abstract #LCS2024LCS_142; Moreover, aptamer treatment increased sensitivity to palbociclib. All these findings highlight the potential of aptamers targeting HuR SUMOylation as a novel targeted and specific therapeutic approach for liver cancer.
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Review, Journal: Tezepelumab in patients with allergic and eosinophilic asthma. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 26, 2023 P2, P3 In a pooled analysis of the phase 2b PATHWAY (NCT02054130) and phase 3 NAVIGATOR (NCT03347279) studies, compared with placebo, tezepelumab reduced the annualized asthma exacerbation rate over 52?weeks by 62% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 53, 70) in patients with perennial aeroallergen sensitization (allergic asthma); by 71% (95% CI: 62, 78) in patients with a baseline blood eosinophil count ?300 cells/?L; and by 71% (95% CI: 59, 79) in patients with allergic asthma and a baseline blood eosinophil count ?300 cells/?L. This review examines the efficacy and mode of action of tezepelumab in patients with allergic asthma, eosinophilic asthma and coexisting allergic and eosinophilic phenotypes.
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Review, Journal, Real-world evidence, Real-world: Methodological guidance for the use of real-world data to measure exposure and utilization patterns of osteoporosis medications. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 25, 2023 Finally, we present considerations for the measurement of osteoporosis medication exposure, adherence, switching, long-term exposures, and drug holidays using RWD. Ultimately, a thorough understanding of the differences in RWD sources and the pharmacology of osteoporosis medications is essential to obtain valid estimates of the relationship between osteoporosis medications and outcomes, such as fractures, but also to improve the critical appraisal of published studies.
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Journal, Real-world evidence, Real-world: Real-World Health Care Outcomes and Costs Among Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Spain. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 25, 2023 JIA causes significant costs to the Spanish healthcare system and affected families. Public costs are partly due to the high cost of biologic treatments, which nevertheless remain an effective long-term treatment, maintaining inactive disease/low disease activity state; a very low functional disability score; and a good quality of life.
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Journal: Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor targeted therapy-associated ulcerations. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 25, 2023 Oral adverse events due to those agents are rarely described in the literature and their exact characterization is hampered by inadequate reporting and/or incorrect terminology used. We report two cases of panitumumab- and osimertinib-associated oral ulcerations with emphasis on their possible pathogenesis and optimal management.
- |||||||||| Solymbic (adalimumab biosimilar) / Amgen, Amjevita (adalimumab-atto) / Amgen, Daiichi Sankyo, Eticovo (etanercept-ykro) / Biogen, Organon, Samsung, Ewopharma, Yuhan Corp, Mundipharma
Journal: Anti-tumor necrosis factor ?: originators versus biosimilars, comparison in clinical response assessment in a multicenter cohort of patients with inflammatory arthropathies. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 24, 2023 Real-life data demonstrated a similar safety profile between biosimilars and originators, but a reduced biosimilar retention rate at 24 months. Biosimilars could be considered a valid, safe, and less expensive alternative to originators, allowing access to treatments for a wider patient population.
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Journal: Sex X Time Interactions in Lp(a) and LDL-C Response to Evolocumab. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 23, 2023 Our data partially reinforce the presence of differences in response to treatment to PCSK9i between men and women and are essential to gain a better understanding of the relationship between LDL-C and Lp(a) lowering in response to PCSK9i. Further research will clarify whether these sex-related significant differences translate into a meaningful difference in the long-term risk of ASCVD.
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Preclinical, Journal: In vivo study of newly developed albumin-conjugated urate oxidase for gout treatment. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 23, 2023 The report indicates that bridging treatment with blinatumomab in children with B-ALL complicated by IFD can rebuild the immune system and control the underlying disease in the presence of immunosuppression and severe fungal infection. All results suggest that this rHA-conjugated AfUox, PAT101, can be provided as a reliable source of Uox for gout treatment.
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Journal, PD(L)-1 Biomarker, IO biomarker: In situ production and secretion of proteins endow therapeutic benefit against psoriasiform dermatitis and melanoma. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 An SP-engineered anti-PD-L1 construct mediated mRNA encoded proteins with longer serum half-lives that reduced tumor burden and extended survival in MC38 and B16F10 cancer models. The modular nature of SP platform should enable intracellular and extracellular localization control of various functional proteins for diverse therapeutic applications.
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Review, Journal: Treatment Options for Posttraumatic Headache: A Current Review of the Literature. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 A randomized crossover study of 40 patients with persistent PTH found that onabotulinum toxin-A decreased cumulative number of headaches/week by 43.3% in the treatment group and increased by 35.1% among placebos...New studies indicate promise in improving clinically important outcomes of PTH. However, more research is necessary to determine the optimal treatment and whether combining pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment versus a single modality is more effective.
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Review, Journal: Low-Intensity and Chemo-Free Treatments in Ph+ ALL: Progression-Free Survival Based on Indirect Comparisons. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 The survival data from these trials were pooled into three types of treatments: (i) treatments based on tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) combined with reduced-intensity chemotherapy (denoted as TKICHE); (ii) TKIs associated with steroids with no chemotherapy (TKISTE); (iii) chemotherapy-free combinations of blinatumomab plus TKIs (TKIBLI)...In terms of PFS, TKIBLI ranked first, TKICHE second, and TKISTE third; the differences between these three regimens were statistically significant. This multi-treatment Kaplan-Meier graph, generated through the Shiny method, summarized the current evidence on these treatments in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
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Preclinical, Journal: Anti-Siglec-15 Antibody Prevents Marked Bone Loss after Acute Spinal Cord Injury-Induced Immobilization in Rats. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 Rapid and extensive sublesional bone loss after spinal cord injury (SCI) is a difficult medical problem that has been refractory to available interventions except the antiresorptive agent denosumab (DMAB)...JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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Journal: Fibrous dysplasia in children and its management. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 Management of children with FD has unique challenges related to skeletal growth and age-related lesion progression. Inclusion of children in clinical research is critical to develop effective treatment strategies to treat FD lesions and prevent their development.
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Journal: Altering distribution profile of palbociclib by its prodrugs. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 22, 2023 PD1 exhibited a higher AUC ratio, suggesting safer dosing, while PD2 showed favorable long-acting pharmacokinetics. Although our prodrug design did not significantly improve palbociclib brain delivery due to the potential size limitation of the prodrugs, the study provides valuable insights for future prodrug development and drug delivery strategies targeting specific transporters.
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Enrollment change, Trial withdrawal, Surgery: Binimetinib and Palbociclib Before Surgery for the Treatment of Operable KRAS-Positive Lung, Colorectal, or Pancreatic Cancer (clinicaltrials.gov) - Dec 22, 2023 P1, N=0, Withdrawn, Active, not recruiting --> Completed | N=20 --> 2 N=24 --> 0 | Recruiting --> Withdrawn
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Pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity of the ustekinumab biosimilar candidate ABP 654 in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (Poster exhibition) - Dec 21, 2023 - Abstract #ECCOIBD2024ECCO_IBD_861; While the percentages of binding and neutralising ADAs were numerically lower for the ABP 654 group compared with the ustekinumab RP group through Week 28 (and in patients who received dose intensification), the available clinical efficacy, safety, and PK data suggest that these differences were not clinically impactful. Overall, the results support a conclusion of no clinically meaningful differences between ABP 654 and ustekinumab RP.
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Post hoc analysis reveals limited efficacy of induction therapy in ileum only Crohn (Poster exhibition) - Dec 21, 2023 - Abstract #ECCOIBD2024ECCO_IBD_857; Results A total of 9 studies, involving 709 adult patients, were identified: two via Embase and PubMed; six from supplementary search materials; and one post-hoc analysis of brazikumab data (not published)...Previous systematic review1 on clinical remission after induction treatment demonstrate placebo adjusted values in the range of 12-20% in a no defined disease site population. This indicates the need for novel therapies with a mechanism of action directly tailored to heal the small intestine in patients with CD.
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Journal, Adverse events: Update of triggers for detection of adverse drug events in hematologic patients (Pubmed Central) - Dec 21, 2023 The overall PPV of the new suggested list was 48% versus 10% of the previous list. This study demonstrated the importance of an updated list of triggers for the monitoring of ADEs and improvement of the care provided.
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Journal: Induced Endothelial Cell CycleArrest Prevents Arteriovenous Malformations in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. (Pubmed Central) - Dec 21, 2023 Mechanistically, endothelial cell late G1 arrest induced by palbociclib modulates the expression of genes regulating arteriovenous identity, endothelial cell migration, metabolism, and VEGF-A (vascular endothelial growth factor A) and BMP9 signaling that collectively contribute to the prevention of vascular malformations. This study provides new insights into molecular mechanisms leading to HHT by defining how endothelial cell cycle is dysregulated in AVMs because of BMP9/10 and Alk1 signaling deficiencies, and how restoration of endothelial cell cycle control may be used to treat AVMs in patients with HHT.
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In the context of first-line treatment, it was observed that the combination of a PD-1 inhibitor with bevacizumab (1/15) significantly extended overall survival in patients with advanced HCC...However, this translated into an overall survival benefit only for cabozantinib, regorafenib, ramucirumab, and pembrolizumab, with regorafenib achieving the highest ranking (1/7)...For second-line treatment, regorafenib and cabozantinib are identified as the two most effective options. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero, identifier CRD42023440173.
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