MD Anderson Research Highlights for January 12, 2022

Newswise — The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recently published studies in basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Current advances include an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy to treat follicular lymphoma, targeted therapies for urothelial cancers and advanced breast cancers, understanding the tumor microenvironment and immune landscape in pancreatic cancer, a link between depression risk and androgen deprivation for prostate cancer, and the discovery of new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease, liver cancer and aggressive breast cancer.

Tisagenlecleucel safe and effective against relapsed and refractory follicular lymphoma

While follicular lymphoma (FL), a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is usually slow-growing, most patients relapse, and it is rarely…

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