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Today we revisit three studies presented at the ASH 2021 Annual Meeting. Primary Analysis of ZUMA-7 The 2021 American Society of Hematology Plenary Sessions in Atlanta, Georgia, heard data from a new study of CAR-T cell therapy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: the Phase III randomized ZUMA-7 trial. This compared Axicabtagene Ciloleucel (Axi-Cell) with the current standard-of-care in patients whose disease had relapsed or was refractory after first-line therapy.After the talk, Oncology Times reporter Peter Goodwin caught up with the lead investigator Frederick Locke, MD, Co-Leader of the Immuno-Oncology Program, and Vice Chair of the Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL.How Patients with AML & MDS Respond to COVID Vaccines ASH 2021 held a cluster of sessions devoted to coronavirus infection in patients with hematologic malignancies.Since cancer patients in general are at higher risk from COVID-19 than the general popul