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Looping across different types of analyses can yield intriguing and unexpected results

Not in Chicago It still feels surreal not to have been to windy city and back for the annual meeting at ASCO this year, such was the ongoing effect of the pandemic in the oncology world.

That said, the virtual meeting has produced some gems this year, including some very important findings many may have missed.

In our latest post meeting report we focus on both biomarkers and clinical findings.

We look at how there are various elements may interplay in unexpected ways, whether signatures from one trial are helpful in another, are there likely to be changes in treatment patterns as a result of data presented and where some emerging early signals might be useful.

One other aspect which crossed my mind was how a deep scientific approach used in one particular cancer might have potential applications in other tumour types with few somatic mutations present such as TNBC, prostate cancer or soft tissue sarcomas.

The results might produce quite different results, yet the process itself might be rather useful to consider…

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Friday at #ASH19 – remains of the day or hope springs eternal with sunrise on Saturday morning?

Orlando: The annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology or ASH (Twitter #ASH19) is one of the four key Majors on cancer-related related research meeting circuit that BSB attends each year.

Just as golf has the Masters, the US Open, the Open, and PGA championships, so those on the cancer new product development circuit attend AACR, ASCO, ESMO, and ASH.

This year ASH is in sunny Orlando where you have to compete with the tourists for Uber rides if you want to venture to restaurants or events in the area.

Friday at ASH has traditionally been associated with the satellite symposia, colloquially known as “Super Fridays” that CME companies or organizations such as the Leukemia Lymphoma Society have traditionally run, but in recent years ASH has put on its own Friday events to compete with both the industry satellites and also academic events such as the BMT Winter Workshop we have attended in the past.  More choice is good on one hand, but bad on the other in that something has to give way.

Ron Levy (Stanford) and Stephen Ansell (Mayo) blazed the trail a few years ago with their Friday Scientific Workshop on Tumor Immune Interactions in Lymphoid malignancies. Regular BSB readers may recall the interview at ASH16 with Dr Levy where he reviewed some of the data in that year’s workshop (See post: Targeting the tumour environment in lymphomas.)

This year on Friday at ASH19 there were multiple scientific workshops you could attend. What were some of the presentations that caught our personal attention, what can we learn from them and why did they matter?

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