The American Cancer Society has published a first-of-its-kind study, “Cancer in People who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Gender-nonconforming (LGBTQ+)”.
The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science has released its annual trends report, Global Oncology Trends 2024: Outlook to 2028.
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center—published this month in Drug Resistance Updates—revealed a previously unknown biological process through which breast tumor cells develop resistance to standard treatment. It could open the door for cancer scientists to further target this vulnerability and create more effective therapies for disease.
Up to 80% of breast cancer deaths occur in patients with tumors that express estrogen receptor-alpha, according to a study published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
A multidisciplinary research team at the University of California, Irvine, has revealed that the circadian clock can be leveraged to enhance the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy.
The phase III KEYNOTE-522 trial evaluating Keytruda, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, met its overall survival endpoint, in combination with chemotherapy as pre-operative treatment and then continuing as a single agent after surgery for the treatment of patients with high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer.
Novartis presented positive results from the pivotal phase III ASC4FIRST trial as a late-breaking abstract at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
Novartis presented positive primary endpoint data from the phase III NATALEE trial at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
An ongoing phase I/II study evaluating Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ first-in-class costimulatory bispecific antibody, REGN7075 (EGFRxCD28), in combination with Libtayo (cemiplimab) in patients with advanced solid tumors showed positive new results.
Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc. a commercial biotechnology company focused on innovating, developing, and delivering novel polyclonal tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapies for patients with cancer, has updated clinical data for lifileucel in combination with pembrolizumab in frontline advanced melanoma, as well as translational data, for the upcoming 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting.
