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Addition of obinutuzumab (GA101) or rituximab to chlorambucil improves outcomes for elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and co-existing medical conditions (comorbidities)

CLL is the most common leukemia in the western world. Many CLL patients are elderly and have comorbidities rendering them ineligible for aggressive standard treatments.

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Highlights from the SWG

On November 24, 2022, the SWG on Red Cells and Iron held its annual Business meeting virtually which was chaired by Prof. Ali Taher and Prof. Achille Iolascon.

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5th Focus in Paediatric Haematology-Oncology

The course, which is particularly aimed at specialist trainees in pediatric haemato-oncology, continued the same ethos which inspired the first four courses: the importance of close interactions between the participants and the teaching faculty, a strong emphasis on real cases…

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SWG Educational Activities

Recruitment trialsRecruitment is underway for the following trials:

Trial on precision hematology: Comprehensive Genomic Profiling and Next Generation Functional Drug Screening for Patients With Aggressive Haematological Malignancies (EXALT-2); ClinicalTrials.

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Press Release: Better funding for research into blood diseases will save more lives

“Haematology is probably the area of medicine that has progressed the most in recent years”, said Professor Robin Foà of “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

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Publications

The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours: Myeloid and Histiocytic/Dendritic Neoplasms.

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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)…

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Burnouts: when caregivers become patients

Author: Côme Bommier (Young EHA Ambassador)
Affiliations: Hôpital St-Louis (Paris, France) & Mayo Clinic (Rochester MN, USA)

A survey will be released in September to further map burnout
among hematology professionals in Europe.

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EHA Pediatric Course 2019

Dates: April 3-6, 2019
Location: Hotel Riviera, Sorrento, Italy

Pediatric Hemato-Oncology is a very specialized branch of hematology.

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Publications

High-Dose Cytarabine and Autologous Stem-Cell Transplantation in Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Randomized Mantle Cell Lymphoma Younger Trial of the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network
Hermine O, Jiang L, Walewski J, Bosly A, Thieblemont C, Szymczyk M, Pott…

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