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ESMO 2022: neoadjuvant or adjuvant immunotherapy for locally advanced cancers?

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The advent of immune checkpoint inhibition has arguably been the greatest breakthrough for the treatment of metastatic solid tumours, with durable complete responses observed across multiple cancer types. month progression-free survival (PFS) benefit over SOC chemotherapy. MSI-H/dMMR CRC accounts for 10-15% of all CRC.

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Serplulimab increases survival in small cell lung cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

A Phase III trial from Shanghai Henlius Biotech is the first study to suggest that the programmed cell death (PD) 1 receptor immune checkpoint inhibitor Hansizhuang (serplulimab) plus chemotherapy can markedly improve survival for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) patients. A follow-up after 12.3 percent and 7.9

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Transforming oncology with antibody therapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

Amivantamab was the first bispecific monoclonal antibody (BsMAb) approved in the EU to treat advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations post chemotherapy. Overall, the mechanisms of action for amivantamab include ligand blocking, receptor degradation, and immune cell-mediated activity.

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NK cell immunotherapy: what’s next in clinical development?

European Pharmaceutical Review

He discusses why NK cell therapy’s ability to generate ‘synthetic immunity’ in the body means this modality holds potential as an anti-cancer treatment. We specialise in the development of new cutting-edge immunotherapies , based on the use of therapeutic antibodies capable of activating the immune system to fight cancer.

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ESMO: TIL therapy improves on Yervoy in melanoma trial

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With the results in hand, the developers of the therapy – from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Norway’s National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy – say they now intend to file for regulatory approvals in Europe before the end of the year, without a commercial partner “to try to ensure that it remains affordable.”

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Tuoyi to transform treatment of recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Patients in the US and EU with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a subtype of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), are mostly treated with a combination of chemotherapy agents in the frontline setting, such as cisplatin + gemcitabine. months for the chemotherapy arm (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.52).

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AstraZeneca to acquire TeneoTwo and its blood-cancer therapeutic

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By binding to both CD19, an antigen expressed on B-cells, and to the CD3 receptor on T-cells, TNB-486 activates and recruits T-cells to CD19-expressing tumours where they can elicit an immune response. “By The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory clearances.