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For patients whose treatment for diffused large B cell lymphoma ended unsuccessfully, this clinical trial may present new possibilities, and help researchers gain a better understanding of this new frontier in medicine. CAR-T gene therapy adapts the patient’s own immune system to attack cancer cells that it once could not see. We are proud to be working on this first of a kind combination CAR-T therapy that focuses on two different proteins within the cancer cell, CD-19 and CD-20. This trial is also testing a novel inhouse method of creating the enhanced T cells, to offer patients a potentially faster, safer, and more precise tool to fight this cancer. 

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Talk to your doctor about this study, learn more at learn more at ClinicalTrials.gov, or contact the study coordinator Sharon Yim.

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This trial utilizes accelerated partial breast irradiation in a preoperative setting, as opposed to the standard postoperative treatment. The study seeks to understand if this preoperative treatment will improve the toxicity profile of breast conservation therapy.

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For more information, talk to your doctor, learn more at ClinicalTrials.gov or contact the study coordinator Maria Pigsley.

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Gynecology Oncology has several innovative trials currently open, including a study for patients with advanced recurrent ovarian cancer, a patient population with few good options. Sponsored by Merck, this phase II study investigates the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor that has shown success in treating other cancer types. 

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For more information, talk to your doctor, learn more at ClinicalTrials.gov or contact the study coordinator Qiana Christian. 

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Note that this study is now closed to accrual.  This National Institutes of Health-funded study was for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a blood cancer which is commonly treated with oral medication called Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The current recommendation for CML patients is to continue TKIs therapy indefinitely, despite high costs and significant side effects that decrease patients' health-related quality of life. This study discontinued TKI therapy in 170 willing and eligible CML patients and monitored them closely for 3 years in order to characterize: 

• Factors associated with CML recurrence
• Patient-reported health status changes after TKI discontinuation
• Patient decision making regarding TKI discontinuation with monitoring

This multi-institution study was launched at 15 sites across the nation including the MCW Cancer Center. Previous research in France suggested that some patients were able to discontinue medication and remain in remission, but this was the first study conducted in the United States.

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