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The recent approval of L-glutamine, marketed as Endari, to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients 5 years of age and older is discussed in the Drug Information Soundcast in Clinical Oncology (DISCO) from a Food and Drug Adminstration podcast series that provides information about new product approvals, emerging safety information for cancer treatments, and other current topics in cancer drug development.

The basis for the approval was discussed in our coverage of the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting.

This episode of DISCO is hosted by Sanjeeve Bala, MD, and was developed by Abhilasha Nair, MD; Dr. Bala; Kathy M. Robie Suh, MD; Ann T. Farrell, MD; Kirsten B. Goldberg, and Richard Pazdur, MD. All are with the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products. Steven Jackson of the FDA’s Division of Drug Information was the sound producer.

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The recent approval of L-glutamine, marketed as Endari, to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients 5 years of age and older is discussed in the Drug Information Soundcast in Clinical Oncology (DISCO) from a Food and Drug Adminstration podcast series that provides information about new product approvals, emerging safety information for cancer treatments, and other current topics in cancer drug development.

The basis for the approval was discussed in our coverage of the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting.

This episode of DISCO is hosted by Sanjeeve Bala, MD, and was developed by Abhilasha Nair, MD; Dr. Bala; Kathy M. Robie Suh, MD; Ann T. Farrell, MD; Kirsten B. Goldberg, and Richard Pazdur, MD. All are with the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products. Steven Jackson of the FDA’s Division of Drug Information was the sound producer.

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The recent approval of L-glutamine, marketed as Endari, to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients 5 years of age and older is discussed in the Drug Information Soundcast in Clinical Oncology (DISCO) from a Food and Drug Adminstration podcast series that provides information about new product approvals, emerging safety information for cancer treatments, and other current topics in cancer drug development.

The basis for the approval was discussed in our coverage of the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting.

This episode of DISCO is hosted by Sanjeeve Bala, MD, and was developed by Abhilasha Nair, MD; Dr. Bala; Kathy M. Robie Suh, MD; Ann T. Farrell, MD; Kirsten B. Goldberg, and Richard Pazdur, MD. All are with the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products. Steven Jackson of the FDA’s Division of Drug Information was the sound producer.

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