CML Treatment: Scenarios that Necessitate Switching Therapy

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Jorge E. Cortes, MD, details clinical scenarios that indicate a need to switch therapies for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

This program was made possible with support from Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Video content above is prompted by the following:

  • In which scenarios do you consider switching CML therapies, and how do you approach that conversation with patients? How does the patient experience change when switching therapies?
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Yale’s COPPER Center aims to address disparities and out-of-pocket costs for patients, thereby improving the delivery of complex cancer treatment.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other indolent forms of disease may require sequencing new treatments for years or decades, said Scott Huntington, MD, MPH, MSc.
Fixed-duration therapy may be more suitable for younger patients, while continuous therapy may benefit those who are older with more comorbidities.
Determining the molecular characteristics of one’s disease may influence the therapy employed in the first line as well as subsequent settings.
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