A new partnership between the American Cancer Society and the Melanoma Research Alliance will fund research aimed at decreasing side effects associated with checkpoint inhibitors in hopes of increasing further cancer immunotherapy benefits. FDA has approved use of checkpoint drugs to combat seven cancer types including lung, head and neck, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, Merkel...
In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, managing editor, discuss the Sept. 23 meeting of the FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, during which the panel voted in favor of Galleri, the multi-cancer detection test from GRAIL Inc., to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.
