Caris Life Sciences has launched a new diagnostic tool that aims to help guide treatment decisions for people with…
Marisa Wexler, MS
Marisa holds a Master of Science in cellular and molecular pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. Her areas of expertise include cancer biology, immunology, and genetics, and she has worked as a science writing and communications intern for the Genetics Society of America.
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Articles by Marisa Wexler, MS
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to AMXT 1501 to treat…
GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
New CAR-NKT cell therapy targets endometrial cancer on two fronts
Researchers have developed a new cell therapy that aims to treat endometrial cancer by targeting cancer cells while also depleting…
Add-on treatment with mezigdomide significantly delayed cancer progression among people with hard-to-treat myeloma in a Phase 3 clinical trial,…
Sellas Life Sciences is seeking people with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for a clinical trial testing…
PANCREATIC CANCER
Ketogenic diet with chemo shows survival trend in pancreatic cancer
People with advanced pancreatic cancer who followed a ketogenic diet program administered by Virta Health while receiving chemotherapy…
GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
Immune duo safely targets hard-to-treat gynecological cancers
A combination of two immune-modulating treatments, Lymphir (denileukin diftitox) and Keytruda (pembrolizumab), was well tolerated in an exploratory clinical trial…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the combination of Tecvayli (teclistamab) and Darzalex Faspro (daratumumab…
Treatment with the targeted therapy Venclexta (venetoclax) in combination with chemotherapy led to disease remission for most people with hard-to-treat…
PANCREATIC CANCER
Experimental therapy outperforms approved treatment in PNET trial
The experimental therapy 177Lu-edotreotide outperformed the approved treatment everolimus in prolonging progression-free survival in people with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors…