I think there has been some clinical trial data as part of the CARTITUDE studies of patients with early relapse after frontline therapy, and it seems like the outcomes of CAR T-cell appear promising. However, you know, we didn’t have any real studies on functional high-risk. And there’s been a recent publication, a consensus statement by the EMN about the definitions of what constitutes functional high-risk...
I think there has been some clinical trial data as part of the CARTITUDE studies of patients with early relapse after frontline therapy, and it seems like the outcomes of CAR T-cell appear promising. However, you know, we didn’t have any real studies on functional high-risk. And there’s been a recent publication, a consensus statement by the EMN about the definitions of what constitutes functional high-risk. So, functional high risk in the absence of high-risk cytogenetics and a PFS of less than 18 months. So that’s the new definition. And so we basically wanted to see how these functional high-risk patients actually do with CAR-T therapy, in particular, cilta-cel. So, using a real-world data set done with the Mayo Clinic, we basically interrogated those risk factors. And what we found was that functional high-risk did not appear to be a significant poor prognostic factor in standard of care-treated cilta-cel patients, albeit retrospective, so I think this probably has to be investigated in larger real-world prospective studies.
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