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Alpha Tau Successfully Treats First Immunocompromised Patient with Recurrent Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in its ADMIRE Study at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
- The ADMIRE study, by treating immunocompromised patients, builds on the momentum of Alpha Tau's ReSTART pivotal trial for recurrent cSCC, which recently completed patient enrollment, under which the Banner MD Anderson team, led by Dr. Samuels, has also treated multiple patients - - Immunocompromised patients face dramatically higher rates of cSCC, the second most common type of skin cancer in the U.S., than the general population - as much as 65- to 100-fold among organ transplant recipients s
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- The ADMIRE study, by treating immunocompromised patients, builds on the momentum of Alpha Tau's ReSTART pivotal trial for recurrent cSCC, which recently completed patient enrollment, under which the Banner MD Anderson team, led by Dr. Samuels, has also treated multiple patients - - Immunocompromised patients face dramatically higher rates of cSCC, the second most common type of skin cancer in the U.S., than the general population - as much as 65- to 100-fold among organ transplant recipients specifically - - For many patients in this population, the general treatment options for recurrent cSCC can actually cause real harm: checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, the standard option for the general population, carries a documented risk of triggering rejection of a transplanted organ - JERUSALEM, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: DRTS, DRTSW) ("Alpha Tau"), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT®, today announced the successful treatment of the first patient in the ADMIRE (Alpha DaRT Management for Immunocompromised patients with REcurrent cSCC) study - a clinical trial evaluating intratumoral Alpha DaRT for immunocompromised patients with recurrent cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) . The procedure was performed at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, Arizona, by Michael Samuels, MD, Chief of Multidisciplinary Programs at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center and Principal Investigator of the ADMIRE study at this site, along with Thomas Shellenberger, MD, Head and Neck Cancer Surgical Oncologist. Immunosuppression is one of the strongest known risk factors for cSCC, whether it results from organ transplantation, hematologic malignancies such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), or long-term treatment for autoimmune disease. An estimated 17 million U.S. adults are living with immunosuppression. These immunosuppressed patients face a much higher chance of developing cSCC; organ transplant recipients, for example, face a 65- to 100-fold higher incidence than the general population. Further, standard local treatments for these patients become progressively harder to repeat: surgical excision carries cumulative morbidity, and repeated procedures bring a growing degree of surgical fatigue and diminishing healthy tissue to work with, while radiation therapy is constrained by cumulative dose limits that frequently preclude re-treating the same field. This underscores the need for a localized treatment for this population that can be delivered in a single procedure and be repeated at the same site if the disease returns.
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