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Pharmacyclics total revenue for fourth quarter 2013 increases 113% to $123.6 million

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today reported financial results and recent developments for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2013.

20 Feb 2014

Combination therapy safe and active in follicular lymphoma

One drug attacks tumor cells directly, the other treats the immune system by taking the brakes off T cell response.

12 Dec 2013

Pronai Therapeutics reports positive results from PNT2258 Phase II study on lymphoma

ProNAi Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in developing nucleic acid therapeutics, presented safety and efficacy data from its ongoing Phase II study yesterday at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Hematology (ASH) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

11 Dec 2013

Pharmacyclics presents ibrutinib trial data for B-cell malignancies at ASH meeting

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced results of 40 clinical, non-clinical and pre-clinical presentations on ibrutinib (IMBRUVICA™) at the 55TH Annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) held in New Orleans, Dec 7 - 10, 2013.

11 Dec 2013

CAR therapy shows potential for advancing treatment of patients with ALL and CLL

Novartis is highlighting new research from members of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine on the investigational chimeric antigen receptor therapy, CTL019. Several studies being presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting add to the scientific understanding of CTL019 in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia and build on earlier research findings.

9 Dec 2013

FDA approves ibrutinib for treatment of mantle cell lymphoma

Today's U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of ibrutinib to treat patients with mantle cell lymphoma is a significant advance for patients with this blood cancer. It was approved as a single agent for treatment of patients with MCL who have received at least one prior therapy.

14 Nov 2013

FDA approves NDA filing for ibrutinib inhibitor in two B-cell malignancies

Pharmacyclics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCYC) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing its New Drug Application (NDA) for the investigational oral Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib, for two B-cell malignancy indications: previously treated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).

29 Aug 2013

Pharmacyclics submits ibrutinib NDA to FDA for two B-cell malignancies

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the investigational oral Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor, ibrutinib, for two relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancy indications: mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.

10 Jul 2013

Infinity announces data from IPI-145 Phase 1 study in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies

Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced Phase 1 data from an ongoing study of IPI-145, its potent, oral inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies, or potentially fatal blood cancers.

25 Jun 2013

Results of ibrutinib Phase 2 study in patients with mantle cell lymphoma published in NEJM

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced that The New England Journal of Medicine published results of a Phase 2 study evaluating the investigational oral Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma online.

20 Jun 2013

Ibrutinib monotherapy shows efficacy in patients with MCL or DLBCL

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced the results of two separate Phase 2 studies suggesting that ibrutinib, an investigational oral Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor, showed efficacy when used as a monotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

17 Jun 2013

Pfizer halts Phase 3 open-label, two-arm study of lymphoma drug

Pfizer Inc. announced today the discontinuation of a Phase 3 randomized, open-label, two-arm study (B1931008) evaluating the safety and efficacy of the investigational compound inotuzumab ozogamicin in patients with relapsed or refractory CD22+ aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma who are not candidates for intensive high-dose chemotherapy.

From Pfizer, Inc. 21 May 2013

Inhibiting powerful protein with new agents may supply broad benefit for lymphoma patients

A soon-to-be-tested class of drug inhibitors were predicted to help a limited number of patients with B-cell lymphomas with mutations affecting the EZH2 protein.

14 May 2013

Enrollment for Pharmacyclics' Phase III study using ibrutinib in CLL patients completed

Pharmacyclics, Inc. announced today that the enrollment target of 350 patients for its Phase III study using ibrutinib monotherapy versus ofatumumab in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia / small lymphocytic lymphoma, (RESONATE) was achieved on April 3, 2013.

23 Apr 2013

$Pharmacyclics presents positive results of ibrutinib Phase II trial in untreated, relapsed and refractory CLL patients$

Pharmacyclics presents positive results of ibrutinib Phase II trial in untreated, relapsed and refractory CLL patients

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced results from a Phase II trial of the investigational oral agent ibrutinib which demonstrated rapid and sustained disease control as a monotherapy in untreated, relapsed and refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients, irrespective of characteristics that predict poor outcomes to chemoimmunotherapy.

11 Apr 2013

FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for ibrutinib as monotherapy for CLL patients

Pharmacyclics, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted an additional Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the investigational oral agent ibrutinib as monotherapy for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma patients with deletion of the short arm of chromosome 17 (deletion 17p).

8 Apr 2013

Final data from Aeterna Zentaris’ perifosine plus sorafenib Phase 2 study on lymphomas

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. today announced that final Phase 2 data demonstrated that the combination of perifosine, its oral AKT inhibitor, and sorafenib, was well tolerated by heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory lymphomas.

12 Dec 2012

Women respond much better than men to treatment of CFL with rituximab

Women respond much better than men to the treatment of chronic follicular lymphoma with a monoclonal antibody that targets CD20 (rituximab). These are the findings of a multi-centre, Austria-wide study by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft medikamentöse Tumortherapie (AGMT) carried out under the supervision of the University Department of Internal Medicine I and study leader Ulrich Jäger, which has now been published in the highly respected journal "Haematologica".

11 Oct 2012

Radiation therapy alone no longer the best choice for early follicular lymphoma

A University of Rochester Medical Center study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, challenges treatment guidelines for early stage follicular lymphoma, concluding that six different therapies can bring a remission, particularly if the patient is carefully examined and staged at diagnosis.

22 Aug 2012

FDA requests Biovest to conduct second Phase III trial of BV301 for NHL

Biovest International, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it conducted a formal clinical guidance meeting with the U.S. FDA to determine the most expeditious U.S. registration pathway for BiovaxID, its personalized cancer vaccine for the consolidation treatment of follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

15 Aug 2012

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Latest Follicular Lymphoma News and Research

Pharmacyclics total revenue for fourth quarter 2013 increases 113% to $123.6 million

Combination therapy safe and active in follicular lymphoma

Pronai Therapeutics reports positive results from PNT2258 Phase II study on lymphoma

Pharmacyclics presents ibrutinib trial data for B-cell malignancies at ASH meeting

CAR therapy shows potential for advancing treatment of patients with ALL and CLL

FDA approves ibrutinib for treatment of mantle cell lymphoma

FDA approves NDA filing for ibrutinib inhibitor in two B-cell malignancies

Pharmacyclics submits ibrutinib NDA to FDA for two B-cell malignancies

Infinity announces data from IPI-145 Phase 1 study in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies

Results of ibrutinib Phase 2 study in patients with mantle cell lymphoma published in NEJM

Ibrutinib monotherapy shows efficacy in patients with MCL or DLBCL

Pfizer halts Phase 3 open-label, two-arm study of lymphoma drug

Inhibiting powerful protein with new agents may supply broad benefit for lymphoma patients

Enrollment for Pharmacyclics' Phase III study using ibrutinib in CLL patients completed

Pharmacyclics presents positive results of ibrutinib Phase II trial in untreated, relapsed and refractory CLL patients

FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for ibrutinib as monotherapy for CLL patients

Final data from Aeterna Zentaris’ perifosine plus sorafenib Phase 2 study on lymphomas

Women respond much better than men to treatment of CFL with rituximab

Radiation therapy alone no longer the best choice for early follicular lymphoma

FDA requests Biovest to conduct second Phase III trial of BV301 for NHL

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