What You Need to Know about Chronic GVHD: Current Treatment Options and Promising Research

Promising clinical trials, scientific tools and drug interventions are here now, paving the way for FDA approved treatments for GVHD.

In this video, Dr. Madan Jagasia of Vanderbuilt-Ingram Cancer Center discusses:

  • Incidence of GVHD
  • Scoring, staging and categorizing GVHD
  • We make progress in treating GVHD by having the right:
    • Patients in clinical trials
    • Scientific tools to incorporate in research
    • Interventions to study (exploring the possibility of reducing the use of corticosteroids)
      • Why, until recently hasn’t there been any approved drugs for GVHD?
      • Current clinical trials studying drugs to be used as front line therapy
      • Current clinical trials studying drugs to be used after failure of 1-3 lines of therapy

The drug, ibrutnib,recently approved by FDA for treatment of GVHD ​

  • Questions to ask your doctor
  • Q & A

This video is a recording of the recent webinar, What You Need to Know about GVHD: Current Treatment Options and Encouraging Research. It is a 35 minute presentation followed by a 25 minute Q & A session with Dr. Jagasia.

The recording has been made possible in part by Pharmacyclics and Janssen.

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