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Despite being considered a rare type of malignancy, constituting only 3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, the incidence of biliary tract cancers (BTCs) has been increasing worldwide in recent years, with about 20,000 new cases annually only in the USA.1–3 These cancers arise from the biliary epithelium of the small ducts in the periphery of the liver […]

Arnon P Kater, EHA 2018 – TP53 Mutations in Relapsed/Refractory CLL – the MURANO Trial

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Published Online: Jun 21st 2018

touchONCOLOGY talks to Arnon P Kater from the Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam about the MURANO study and the impact of TP53-mutated clone size on outcome of relapsed/refractory (R/R) CLL patients treated with venetoclax plus rituximab.

1. Why do chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients with alterations in the TP53 pathway represent an unmet clinical need? (0:10)

2. Could you tell us a little about venetoclax and its efficacy in CLL? (1:11)

3. What is the safety profile of venetoclax? (2:05)

4. What was the rationale for the investigation of the impact of clone size on outcomes in patients in the MURANO study? (2:56)

5. What were the findings of this investigation and what are the implications of these findings? (4:29)

Speaker disclosures: Arnon P Kater has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 23rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Hematology (EHA), Stockholm, Sweden, June 14–17 2018.

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