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Factors Leading to Black Patient Disparities in Hematology Trials With Shakira Grant, MBBS

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Shakira J. Grant, MBBS, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss her research she presented, "If You Don't Trust Your Doctor That Much…You'd Feel Less Confident Doing a Research Study": Factors Influencing Black Patient Participation in Hematology Trials.

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Making Health Care Accessible for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients With Ian Bouligny, MD

At the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ian Bouligny, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center, spoke with Oncology Data Advisor about his abstract regarding health care disparities faced by Black patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Dr. Bouligny explains the factors that contribute to treatment disparities and shares strategies for equalizing health care accessibility on both the local and the national levels.  

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Advancing the Careers of Women in Hematology With Ariela Marshall, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Ariela Marshall, MD, Director of the Women's Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to talk about the ASH Women in Hematology Working Group, a group committed to career advances and leadership opportunities for women in hematology.  

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Subsequent Treatment After CAR T-Cell Therapy in Large B-Cell Lymphoma With Armin Ghobadi, MD

Oncology Data Advisor™ · Subsequent Treatment After CAR T-Cell Therapy in Large B-Cell Lymphoma With Armin Ghobadi, MD Recently, at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Armin Ghobadi, an Associate Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to enlighten us about his research and presentation regarding the ZUMA-7 trial, in which he discusses the outcomes of subsequent anti...

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Pioneering the Field of Stem Cell Biology With Irving Weissman, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Irving Weissman, Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, received the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. In this interview, Dr. Weissman tells the story of how he entered the field, describes the monumental contributions he has made in hematology and oncology, and shares advice for medical students who are interested in becoming involved in basic science research.  

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Pioneering the Field of Stem Cell Biology With Irving Weissman, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Irving Weissman, Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, received the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. In this interview, Dr. Weissman tells the story of how he entered the field, describes the monumental contributions he has made in hematology and oncology, and shares advice for medical students who are interested in becoming involved in basic science research.  

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Investigating CAR T-Cell Therapy Wait Time and High-Risk Disease Definitions in Myeloma With Samer Al Hadidi, MD, MS, FACP

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Samer Al Hadidi, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the multiple myeloma research that he presented. Dr. Al Hadidi elaborates on his studies regarding the wait list for patients who are eligible to receive chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy and the variability of definitions of high-risk disease in myeloma clinical trials.  

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Multiple Myeloma Trials and Quality News Reporting With Manni Mohyuddin, MBBS

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Manni Mohyuddin, Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the multiple myeloma research he was involved with at this year's meeting. Dr. Mohyuddin elaborates on his abstracts regarding the prognostic value of (11;14) translocation in multiple myeloma, the characterization of survival end points in clinical trials, and ways to improve the quality of news reporting of oncology clinical trials.  

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Exploring the Results of Elranatamab for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma With Noopur Raje, MD

Oncology Data Advisor™ · Exploring the Results of Elranatamab for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma With Noopur Raje, MD Recently, Dr. Noopur Raje, Director of the Center for Multiple Myeloma at Massachusetts General Hospital, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting to discuss the results of the MagnetisMM-1 study of elranatamab for multiple myeloma that she presented. Dr. Raje elaborates on the efficacy and safety of th...

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Describing Real-World Treatment Patterns for Myelodysplastic Syndromes With Ira Zackon, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ira Zackon sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss his abstract regarding real-world treatment patterns and survival outcomes among patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), including ways for making clinical trial data applicable for patients treated in the community oncology setting.  

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Association of Socioeconomic Status With Treatment Adherence and Survival in Myeloma With Leon Bernal-Mizrachi, MD

Oncology Data Advisor™ · Association of Socioeconomic Status With Adherence and Survival in Myeloma: Leon Bernal-Mizrachi, MD At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Leon Bernal-Mizrachi, MD, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss his research and presentation regarding association of socioeconomic status with a...

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Studying the Promising Role of Bispecific Antibodies in Multiple Myeloma With Ajai Chari, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Ajai Chari, MD, the Director of Research in the Multiple Myeloma Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss his presentation regarding the phase 1/2 results of the MonumenTAL-1 study. This study researches the possible benefit of talquetamab, a bispecific antibody, in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.  

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Improving the Standard of Care for Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma With Mitul Gandhi, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, updated results were presented for the SGN35-027 study of brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab and chemotherapy for advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma. One of its authors, Dr. Mitul Gandhi of Virginia Cancer Specialists, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor while there to discuss the importance of the trial's results and the next steps for improving upon the standard of care for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.  

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Optimizing Patient Outcomes With CAR T-Cell Therapy With Ola Oluwole, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Ola Oluwole of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss two of his abstracts on prophylactic corticosteroid use for patients receiving axicabtagene ciloleucel and the role of cytokine release syndrome in the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.  

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Investigating Brentuximab Vedotin for Advanced-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma With Habte Yimer, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Habte Yimer of Texas Oncology sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to elaborate on the promising results of brentuximab vedotin for patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma, including the most recent data and future directions for the trial.  

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Updates on Trials of Zilovertamab and Brentuximab Vedotin in Lymphomas With Hun Lee, MD

At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Oncology Data Advisor met with Dr. Hun Lee of MD Anderson to discuss the two abstracts that he presented there. Dr. Lee provided an update on the promising data for zilovertamab plus ibrutinib for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), marginal zone lymphoma (MZL), and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and for brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab and chemotherapy for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.  

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Discussing the Relevance of Urine Studies in Myeloma With Kelsey Natsuhara, MD

Oncology Data Advisor™ · Discussing the Relevance of Urine Studies in Myeloma With Kelsey Natsuhara, MD At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Kelsey Natsuhara, MD, a Fellow in Hematology and Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor and ConveyMED to discuss her presentation regarding the relevance of urine studies in myeloma patients undergoing transplantation. This podcast episode was recorded live by O...

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Investigating the Efficacy of HPN217 in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma With Luke Walker, MD

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Luke Walker, Chief Medical Officer of Harpoon Therapeutics, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the results of a phase 1 trial of HPN217, a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)–targeting T-cell engager, which were presented at the meeting. Dr. Walker delves into the efficacy that HPN217 demonstrated in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, including its tolerability and low risk of cytokine release syndrome (CRS).  

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Understanding Multiple Myeloma Treatment Patterns and Sequencing With Robert Rifkin, MD, FACP

At the recent 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr. Robert Rifkin, Medical Oncologist and Hematologist at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers in Denver, Colorado, sat down with Oncology Data Advisor to discuss the research that he presented, titled Impact of COVID-19 on Treatment Patterns and Management of Multiple Myeloma: Insights from the Connect® MM Registry.  

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Come See Oncology Data Advisor and ConveyMED at ASH 2022!

Are you attending the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans this weekend? Come visit Oncology Data Advisor and ConveyMED while you are there! We will be attending and conducting live interviews discussing the latest research, news, and updates from the conference. Visit us in the press area outside of rooms 256-257 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on December 10, 11, and 12 to record a podcast, share your research and experiences at ASH, and network with fellow attendees...

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