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VOLUME 05 | NUMBER 05 | APRIL 2019 Around the Network IN THIS ISSUE pulling back the curtain Lukas Wartman, MD Dr. Wartman discusses his decision to go into medicine and his life as a doctor and a patient. 11 clinical news 23 Aggressive Versus Standard Imatinib Dose Escalation in CML The Spin Cycle Numbers don’t lie – except when people cause them to. How can readers arm themselves against spin? ASH Clinical News spoke with statisticians and clinical trialists about the strengths and limitations of research designs, the ways in which statistics can sometimes mislead, and advice for how clinicians can discern misinterpretation or overstatement. 24 JULIET Analysis Finds Durable Responses With Tisagenlecleucel in DLBCL 26  On Location: News From the 2019 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (ASH) HEADQUARTERS 2021 L Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 www.hematology.org Tel: [phone] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS Vice-Chair for Clinical Research Director, Leukemia Program Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute Cleveland, OH ASSOCIATE EDITORS Elizabeth Brém, MD UC Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH Alice Ma, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC David Steensma, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA 30 Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA ASHCLINICALNEWS.ORG Want to hear more from the talented hematologists and oncologists we interview for our print issue? Visit ashclinicalnews.org/sound-bites to hear everything we couldn’t fit in print! This month, Dr. Wartman describes how his experiences as a leukemia patient affect his interactions with his own patients. Also check out our daily updates from the world of hematology and health care in our “Online Exclusives,” with recent stories like: • • • Pharma Execs Shift Blame in Senate Hearing on Drug Prices FDA Panel Votes Down Selinexor for Multiple Myeloma U.S. Doctors’ Burnout Decreasing, Work Satisfaction Increasing @ASHCLINICALNEWS Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ Make sure to follow us at @ASHClinicalNews for the latest updates in hematology! PUBLISHER And don’t forget to sign up to receive our eNewsletters to have the latest updates from ASH Clinical News delivered to your inbox: ashclinicalnews.org/ enewsletter-sign-up. EDITORIAL Visit ashclinicalnews.org/online-exclusives for more. 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About the American Society of Hematology The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is the world’s largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatments of blood disorders. The mission of the Society is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic and vascular systems, by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. ASH Clinical News (ISSN 2375-8120) is published monthly by American Medical Communications, 630 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, Manalapan, NJ 07726. Periodicals postage paid at Freehold, NJ and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to American Medical Communications, 630 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, Manalapan, NJ 07726. ©Copyright, 2019. 4 ASH Clinical News Visit us at ashclinicalnews.org Follow us on Twitter @ASHClinicalNews ©2019 by the American Society of Hematology. 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