Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and peer institutions released findings in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showing that when all types of cancer research studies are considered, at least one in five people with cancer, or 21.9%, participate in some form of clinical research.
In the phase II CAR-PRISM (PRecision Intervention Smoldering Myeloma) clinical trial, the first to investigate CAR T-cell therapy in patients with high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma, all 20 patients were negative for minimal residual disease within two months of treatment and remained MRD-negative after a median of 15.3 months of follow-up.
