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San Diego, CA—Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell administration after autologous stem-cell transplant (ASCT) showed clinical activity in patients with advanced multiple myeloma, according to results of a pilot study presented at the 2016 American Society of Hematology meeting. Substantially longer progression-free survival (PFS) was seen in 2 of 10 patients who received ASCT plus CTL019 than in patients who received first-line ASCT, said Alfred L. Garfall, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Unlike other countries around the world, the United States does not regulate or negotiate drug prices. In general, the European Union members (eg, United Kingdom, France, Germany), Australia, and other countries incorporate pricing at the time of new drug approval, and allow the use of a new drug when it provides a significant clinical benefit over existing drugs, relative to the drug price.

San Diego, CA—Ropeginterferon alfa-2b, an investigational, long-acting, mono-pegylated interferon was noninferior to hydroxyurea in achieving complete hematologic response and with superior tolerability to hydroxyurea in the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera, according to the final results of the phase 3 PROUD-PV clinical trial presented by Heinz Gisslinger, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, at the 2016 American Society of Hematology meeting.