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Delivering Targeted Radiotherapy to Myeloma Cells - CLR 131 with Natalie Callander, MD, University of Wisconsin

Posted on: Sep 30, 2019
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Natalie Callander, MD
University of Wisconsin 
Interview Date: September 30, 2019

Cancer cells have a different thickness of cell membrane than normal cells. A new treatment is exploiting that difference by delivering a targeted therapy to just the cancer cells while avoiding the normal cells. Cellectar is developing a new treatment called CLR 131, which is a compound that allows the delivery of a radioactive iodine to enter specifically into tumor cells. Radioactive iodine has been used for many years to treat thyroid cancer and has a long history of safety and a short half-life. Dr. Callander describes how this is being used in multiple myeloma and other blood cancers to treat relapsed disease. 

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Natalie Callander, MD

Dr. Natalie Callander is a faculty member in Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care within the Department of Medicine. She is the Director of the UW Carbone Cancer Center Myeloma Clinical Program, Vice Chair of the NCCN Myeloma Committee, and Interim Director of Bone Marrow Transplant. She is a member of the NCI Myeloma Steering Committee and the ECOG Myeloma Committee She has received three UW Health Patient Experience Physician Champion Awards, named to Best Doctors in America list since 2004, a Madison Magazine Top Doctor three times, and received the Chuck Koval Award for Excellence in Myeloma presented by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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Jennifer Ahlstrom

Myeloma survivor, patient advocate, wife, mom of 6. Believer that patients can help accelerate a cure by weighing in and participating in clinical research. Founder of the HealthTree Foundation.

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