RE: Sarcoma – the evolution of care in rare cancers with William Tap31 Jul 2023 15:19
Struggled intellectually with Dr Tap's tour de force but, in addition to any mention of AVA6000, another elephant not in the room was Medical Ethics. I suspect that Dr Tap, who has crossed the Atlantic to be with Avacta on their Science Day in February and has also chosen to run the extensive ongoing Phase 1a AVA6000 trials at various MSK branches in the US, does not usually associate himself with failure. I think he is certain of AVA 6000 success given current progress, and that the main purpose of his lecture was to lay out the current situation regarding Sarcomas and their treatments/failures/successes/trial designs/lessons learned etc and to invite the great and the good present to consider alternative ways forward, such that patients would receive life saving benefits sooner rather than later.
He probably envisages the imminent approach of situations where medical ethics require the imposition of new treatments rather that continuing with existing standards of care.
Just my thoughts.