I also am very excited with the video interviews from ESH in Greece including ones with Furman, Hallek, Stilgenbauer, Wu, and Brown.
But first I have to share this fourth and final thoughtful audio interview with Dr. Susan O'Brien despite all its hisses and pops.
We pick up on the issue of ethical trial design from the third part of her interview on the issue of equipoise. If you missed part 3 or part 1 or 2, please enjoy by clicking on the numbers.
In this segment, Dr. O'Brien and I discuss the place of CT scans in clinical trials and in the real world of CLL therapy. Her answer is not black or white but is balanced and well considered.
Next Dr. O' Brien gives as a nuanced response to the question of what might be the possible role for chemo-immunotherapy in and out of trials.
Spoiler alert: Consider FCR frontline if you are young, healthy, mutated, and trisomy 12. But only under those circumstances>
Here is Dr. O'Brien
More soon from ASH and ESH.
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