Phase II study of personalized cancer vaccine in CRC shows positive preliminary PFS and long-term ctDNA data

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The ongoing, signal-seeking phase II portion of the phase II/III study evaluating Granite, a personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine, in front-line metastatic microsatellite stable colorectal cancer, produced positive preliminary data. 

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