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With immunotherapy trial, ‘a real paradigm shift’ in rare skin cancer – Fred Hutch News Service

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2017-04-03 NEWS

Fred Hutch News Service

With immunotherapy trial, ‘a real paradigm shift’ in rare skin cancer
Fred Hutch News Service
Dr. Paul Nghiem of the University of Washington and Fred Hutch was a senior investigator on a trial of an immunotherapy drug in chemotherapy-resistant, metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer. The one-year follow-up data were presented at

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Daily Mail

Scans reveal colours of cancer cells and body’s defence
Daily Mail
Dr Emma Smith, Cancer Research UK’s science information manager, said: ‘These stunning images show white blood cells, called CAR T cells, in action after they have been retrained to spot and attack cancer cells. ‘Immunotherapy is an important new

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Nanoparticle treatment could improve immunotherapy against cancer UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
EurekAlert (press release)
“Our data shows that two compounds on a single nanoparticle will make immunotherapy treatments even more effective,” said the study’s senior author Andrew Wang, MD, a UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine …

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Bristol-Myers immunotherapy combination extends survival in melanoma
WHTC
(Reuters) – Patients with advanced melanoma who received Bristol-Myers Squibb’s immunotherapies Opdivo and Yervoy had improved overall survival compared with those on Yervoy alone, with 64 percent on the combination therapy still alive after two years …
BMS to Use Foundation Medicine Platform in Immuno-Oncology PartnershipGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)

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Bristol-Myers immunotherapy combination extends survival in melanoma
Reuters
Patients with advanced melanoma who received Bristol-Myers Squibb’s immunotherapies Opdivo and Yervoy had improved overall survival compared with those on Yervoy alone, with 64 percent on the combination therapy still alive after two years, according …
Bristol-Myers Squibb Enters Collaboration To Leverage Foundation Medicine’s Molecular Information PlatformBio-IT World
BMS to Use Foundation Medicine Platform in Immuno-Oncology PartnershipGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Monday, April 3, 2017Medical Marketing and Media
GenomeWeb –Endpoints News –MilTech
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Bristol-Myers immunotherapy combination extends survival in melanoma
Reuters
Patients with advanced melanoma who received Bristol-Myers Squibb’s immunotherapies Opdivo and Yervoy had improved overall survival compared with those on Yervoy alone, with 64 percent on the combination therapy still alive after two years, according …

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2017-04-03 NEWS

Update on ‘Three blind mice and human with lung cancer’
The Badger
Back at the start of term, the Badger brought to you the exciting news of a breakthrough in the research of CRISPR techniques from the Salk Institute California. This concerned the use of non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) to help medical researchers in