The 2020 ASCO conference, the biggest conference in oncology, had some technical difficulties, but that didn’t stop companies and researchers from presenting groundbreaking new cancer treatments. Here are 5 big moments:
Adaptimmune Makes Waves And Puts More Shares On The Market
Clinical-stage biotech Adaptimmune released encouraging data from the phase 1 clinical trial of its T-cell therapy on May 29th. The therapy, called ADP-A2M4 SPEAR T-cell therapy, treats cancer by engineering a patient’s T cells to seek out and destroy solid tumors. The data is still limited; only about 50 patients have been studied. But Adaptimmune says that its treatment shows responses in synovial sarcoma, a rare type of soft tissue cancer, as well as lung cancer and head & neck cancer.
It’s not only the illness that puts cancer patients at risk. Oncologists are worried about a surge in late-stage cancers because many surgeries and screenings have been postponed, and some patients are still too scared of contracting Covid-19 to enter a healthcare facility. Duma, who has seen these effects in her own practice, says, “we’re seeing the other consequence of the virus.”
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