Treatment with CAN-2409, an immune-modulating anticancer therapy, showed promising trends toward improved survival in a Phase 2 clinical trial involving…
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 presence of more than one high-risk genetic abnormality is associated with dramatically more aggressive multiple myeloma, a study…
Aptose Biosciences will be testing a higher dose of tuspetinib as part of a triple-combination regimen that’s being…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to review an application from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals seeking the…
A triple-combination therapy using tuspetinib, Aptose Biosciences‘ experimental oral therapy, is showing potential in treating adults with newly…
PANCREATIC CANCER
PAC-MANN blood test shows high accuracy in ID’ing pancreatic cancer
A new blood test called PAC-MANN can detect the most common type of pancreatic cancer with high accuracy, according…
An experimental immune-modulating therapy called KROS 101 was able to activate immune cells to kill glioma cells in laboratory…
GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
FDA gives RMAT status to Vigil immunotherapy for ovarian cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation to Gradalis’ experimental…
Treatment with the cancer vaccine galinpepimut-S (GPS) is showing promise to potentially improve survival in people with acute myeloid leukemia…
PANCREATIC CANCER
Checkpoint inhibitors may be effective Pan-NEN immunotherapy
Certain immunotherapies may be effective in some cases of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (Pan-NEN), a rare type of pancreatic cancer,…