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HARMONY: Innovative Medicines Initiative approves € 40 million project for better care of patients with hematologic malignancies
HARMONY will capture, integrate, analyze and harmonize anonymous patient data from high-quality multidisciplinary sources to unlock valuable knowledge on multiple myeloma (MM), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)…
Read moreHARMONY: Better care of patients with hematologic malignancies kicked off!
“Combining data available from clinical trials as well as real world patients allows us to do more advanced analyses on possible treatment options that could be effective for individual patient or categories of patients”, said Jesús María Hernandez Rivas, Project…
Read moreEHA’s advocacy for hematology continues
The EHA Board has recently approved five position papers which formulate EHA’s key lobbying priorities:
Support for hematology research in Horizon 2020 (and future EU research funding programs)
Access to treatment for patients with blood disorders
EU collaboration to reduce the prices…
Young researchers to benefit from EHA training and mentoring
Participation in EHA-CRTH will allow these researchers to fine-tune the skills and knowledge required to successfully design, run and complete clinical trials.
Read moreEHA-funded study in The Lancet Haematology: Economic Burden of Blood Disorders in EU is €23 billion
In Europe blood disorders affect around 80 million people. The total cost of blood disorders consists of healthcare expenditure (€15. 6 billion), productivity loss due to illness and mortality (€5. 6 billion), and the costs of informal care (€1.
Read morePress Release: Economic burden of blood disorders in EU is €23 billion
The economic burden of blood disorders across the European Union, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland amounts to €23 billion per year.
Read moreKiller antibodies against AML
Most patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can only be cured when a stem cell transplant induces an immune response against the patient’s leukemia.
Read moreThe Clot Thickens
Haemophilia B is a genetic bleeding disorder, affecting approximately 80,000 males worldwide1, caused by an insufficient or dyfunctional blood clotting protein called factor IX (FIX).
Read moreThe root of evil: pre-leukemic clones that survive chemotherapy are linked to a higher risk of leukemia recurrence
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. Treatment with intensive chemotherapy often leads to a period of freedom from overt disease called a remission. However, recurrence of the disease is common.
Read moreStopping tyrosine kinase inhibitors in a very large cohort of European chronic myeloid leukemia patients: results of the EURO-SKI trial
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have substantially improved survival in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase. However, treatment is in clinical practice considered life-long.
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