Piers Blombery

@pbmd99.bsky.social

Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Lead of Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics

Two patients with refractory myeloma who had excellent antitumor responses to cilta-cel CAR T-cell therapy later had T-cell lymphomas that contained the lentivirus construct used to generate the CAR T-cell product. Brief Report on the CARTITUDE-4 trial: nej.md/4gA6G27 #MedSky #Hematology

CAR+ T-Cell Lymphoma after Cilta-cel Therapy for Relapsed or Refractory Myeloma | NEJM

We describe two patients in whom malignant monoclonal T-cell lymphoproliferation developed after administration of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy with ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cil...

nej.md

A woman with multiply relapsed multiple myeloma had complete remission with cilta-cel, but a low-grade T-cell lymphoma soon developed in the GI tract that contained an insertion of the CAR construct disrupting expression of p53. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/40Yq3gO #MedSky #Oncology

CD4+ T-Cell Lymphoma Harboring a Chimeric Antigen Receptor Integration in TP53 | NEJM

Malignant T-cell transformation after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been described, but the contribution of CAR integration to oncogenesis is not clear. Here we report a case o...

nej.md

What a joy it is to hear our very own Sant-Ryan Pasricha presenting Best of #ASH24. Who else could personalise this so much and use a picture of the hallowed ground of the @MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) to such good effect? Go Santa!

BildBild

Critical RW data, especially data re: better PFS for pola for non-GC in the post-CAR setting. Huge congratulations to Drs. Cliff and Russler-Germain for this tour de force, and for inviting us at @CULymphoma @CUHematology (and @JessicaAllenMD) to participate. #ASH24 #lymsm

Bild

A great (in-person!) meeting of the MM-VCEP #ClinGen group today at #ASH24. Lots of exciting projects and milestones for the group on the horizon including making rules for new genes (SAMD9/SAMD9L/TERT/TERC..) as well as progress on our DDX41 curation rules. Stay tuned..

Bild

We recently joined forces with the University of Melbourne to create the Collaborative Centre for Genomic Cancer Medicine. It's Director Prof Sean Grimmond and A/Prof David Westerman joined ABC Melbourne to talk about the new centre's mission and future of #genomicmedicine. A fascinating listen!

Why are scientists so excited about genomics? - ABC listen

Genomics explores the building blocks of human DNA, in the hopes of uncovering patterns that can lead to lifesaving medical discoveries.

abc.net.au