Clinical Roundup

Clinical Roundup

IARC, Lalla Salma Foundation report addresses barriers to cervical cancer screening in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal

To mark World Cancer Day, researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in collaboration with the Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Treatment (Morocco) published a report that provides solutions to overcoming some of the common system-level barriers to implementation of cervical cancer screening, which are faced in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 
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Clinical study evaluating Breyanzi met primary endpoint in R/R CLL

TRANSCEND CLL 004, a phase I/II, open-label, single-arm, multicenter study evaluating Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) in adults with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma, met its primary endpoint of complete response rate compared to historical control in the prespecified subset of patients with R/R CLL that was refractory to a BTK inhibitor and pretreated with a BCL-2 inhibitor. 
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“Persistent mutations” in tumors may predict response to immunotherapy

Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have found that a subset of mutations within the overall tumor mutation burden, termed “persistent mutations,” are less likely to be edited out as cancer evolves, rendering tumors continuously visible to the immune system and predisposing them to respond to immunotherapy.