MD Anderson study finds combination immunotherapy treatment effective before lung cancer surgery

The College of American Pathologists in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Pathology Society, Association for Molecular Pathology, and the LUNGevity Foundation have developed evidence-based recommendations for the testing of immunotherapy biomarkers, including programmed cell death ligand-1 and tumor mutation burden in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma.

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Clinical Roundup

Clinical tool predicts immunotherapy response in uveal melanoma patients

Research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient’s T cells outside the body before reinfusing them, can successfully treat this rare and aggressive cancer.

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Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Alecensa for ALK-positive early-stage lung cancer

FDA approved Alecensa (alectinib) for adjuvant treatment following tumor resection for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer (tumors ≥ 4 cm or node positive), as detected by an FDA-approved test.

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