Expanding a Comprehensive Lung Cancer Screening Program.

The OhioHealth Lung Cancer Screening Program is a high quality multi-disciplinary program that was launched in July 2013 at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, and OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. With the assistance of the AHRA & Toshiba Putting Patients First grant, we were able to expand community access for people at high risk of developing lung cancer by opening several more programs at OhioHealth Marion General and OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospitals. A subsequent patient educational video was developed to highlight the comprehensive program, nurse navigational involvement, potential risks, benefits, and tobacco cessation.

Standard pentostatin dose reductions in renal insufficiency are not adequate: selected patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.

Background And Objective: Pentostatin is an irreversible inhibitor of adenosine deaminase and has been used to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and to treat both acute and chronic GVHD. Dose reduction equations for patients with renal insufficiency are based on few patients with limited pharmacokinetic and clinical results. This phase II study (NCT00201786) was conducted to assess pentostatin efficacy and infectious complications seen from our previous phase I study in steroid-refractory acute GVHD (aGVHD).

Phase II trial of temsirolimus in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

In a phase II trial, 16 patients with relapsed refractory multiple myeloma received temsirolimus 25mg I.V. weekly until progression.

Addition of infliximab to standard acute graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis following allogeneic peripheral blood cell transplantation.

Infliximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody (mAb) against tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, has shown activity against steroid refractory acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD). We conducted a prospective trial of infliximab for the prophylaxis of aGVHD. Patients older than 20 years undergoing myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) for hematologic malignancies were eligible.

Phase II clinical trial of arsenic trioxide with liposomal doxorubicin, vincristine, and dexamethasone in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

In patients with multiple myeloma, there is preclinical justification to combine arsenic trioxide (ATO and As(2)O(3)) with DVd (Doxiltrade mark, vincristine, and dexamethasone) for newly diagnosed patients. Eleven patients on this phase II trial received 0.15 mg/kg of ATO for five consecutive days followed by four cycles of DVd plus ATO with the ATO at 0.