Follicular lymphoma: new guidelines should take focus off overtreatment

Updated guidelines on the management of follicular lymphoma point to ever increasing personalised medicine for a condition where survival has increased substantially over the past 30 years. Advances in imaging and understanding of disease staging as well as calculation of prognosis...

Updated guidelines on the management of follicular lymphoma point to ever increasing personalised medicine for a condition where survival has...

Blood cancers

Caution on aminoglycoside use after study shows increase risk in kids with febrile neutropenia

National guidelines are needed for the management of paediatric febrile neutropenia (FN), according to the Australian Predicting Infectious ComplicatioNs in Children with Cancer (PICNICC) study group. The call follows a study of aminoglycoside use in children with febrile neutropenia which...

National guidelines are needed for the management of paediatric febrile neutropenia (FN), according to the Australian Predicting Infectious ComplicatioNs in...

Blood cancers

CAR T-cell therapy indications to extend beyond r/r DLBCL

The rapidly evolving field of CAR T-cell therapy is likely to see indications extend to other lymphomas beyond diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), a leading haematologist says. There is also the prospect of CAR T-cell therapy being used earlier in the...

The rapidly evolving field of CAR T-cell therapy is likely to see indications extend to other lymphomas beyond diffuse large...

Clotting disorders

There’s only one way to reduce inappropriate coagulation test ordering

The only way to reduce unnecessary coagulation study blood tests in emergency departments may be to confiscate coagulation pathology tubes from bedside trolleys, a Victorian study has found. Choosing Wisely Australia guidelines...

The only way to reduce unnecessary coagulation study blood tests in emergency...