Phase 3 Trial Tests Tyvyt as Esophageal Cancer Therapy
The ORIENT-15 Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating Tyvyt (sintilimab injection) combined with chemotherapies Taxol (paclitaxel) and Platinol (cisplatin) as treatment for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is now underway. Tyvyt was developed by Innovent Biologics and Eli Lilly and Company in China as an immune checkpoint inhibitor that will work against PD-1, a protein found on […]
Continue readingFirst Patient Receives Phase 1 Clinical Trial Dose of FS118
The clinical trial for an antibody designed to treat advanced cancers has begun with the first dose of FS118. The treatment is supposed to target two immune checkpoint proteins. The study, based in the US, will be enrolling 51 patients who have been diagnosed with metastatic cancers. The patients have not previously responded to […]
Continue readingAdvanced Cancer Vaccine enters Phase 1 Trials
In the United Kingdom, a group of researchers have begun trial testing on a new vaccine that will help the human immune system fight advanced cancer. They believe it will help fight cancers that are no longer responding to standard therapy. They are expecting an initial ten participants in the study until other English research […]
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