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Other Immunotherapy Approaches in Gastric/GEJ Cancers – OncLive

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OncLive

Other Immunotherapy Approaches in Gastric/GEJ Cancers
OncLive
There’s also a host of new drug development focused on combining immunotherapy with targeted therapy, such as, in the case of gastric and GEJ cancer, HER2 inhibitors such as trastuzumab, pertuzumab, or some of the other HER2 inhibitors. And in

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Gene therapy stocks tank after leading scientist reveals safety …
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Shares of gene therapy companies fell sharply Tuesday, after a report by a prominent scientist revealed the safety concerns that led him to resign recently from Solid Bioscience Inc.’s SLDB, -17.00% scientific advisory board. Gene therapy researcher

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Patch.com

Batten Disease: Gene Therapy Offers Hope For Boulder Girl
Patch.com
She giggles in excitement as she rides atop the therapy horse or splashes in the lake pretending to be a mermaid. And she never gets enough of her brother’s stories and jokes.” Amid all the devastating news came a glimmer of hope that, over the past

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Endpoints News

Gene therapy pioneer James Wilson sounds an alarm on high-dose AAV studies following toxic reactions in monkeys
Endpoints News
Penn professor James Wilson is one of the preeminent scientists working today in gene therapy. He’s also the key figure in a fatal gene therapy trial back in the late ’90s that left the field in limbo for years, until a new generation of biotechs
Gene Therapy May Not Be a Viable Option for Many PatientsGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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Medscape

Clinical Cancer Advance of the Year Is CAR T Cells
Medscape
This product “can eradicate relapsed ALL in children. This represents one of the most remarkable advances in the treatment of childhood cancer in the last decade and could dramatically change treatment paradigms for this disease,” the report authors
ASCO Names CAR T-Cell Therapy as Cancer Advance of the YearOncLive
CAR T-cell therapy named ASCO’s ‘Advance of the Year’Healio

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