Pierluigi Porcu, MD, a medical oncologist and a lymphoma researcher at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia at the Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, joined Cancer Nursing Today at the 2024 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting to discuss patient-reported outcomes from the phase II Tellomak trial. The trial evaluated lacutamab as a therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and collected data on health-related quality of life from patients. Dr. Porcu shared critical background information on cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which is a “group of rare lymphomas that affect primarily the skin.” ...
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