🧪 Excellent explainer thread on the initial findings (just shared at the ASCO conference) on a possibly amazing new treatment for head and neck cancers.
Now in clinical trials, amivantamab works both by blocking a growth factor in tumor cells and also by directing an immune response against them.
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.