Fate Therapeutics Highlights Positive Interim Data from its Phase 1 Study of FT516 in Combination with – GlobeNewswire

8 of 11 Patients in Dose Escalation Cohorts 2 and 3 Achieved Objective Response

6 of 11 Patients Achieved Complete Response, including 2 Patients Previously Treated with Autologous CD19 CAR T-cell Therapy

Favorable FT516 Safety Profile Was Observed; No FT516-related Serious Adverse Events or FT516-related Grade 3 or Greater Adverse Events

Outpatient Treatment Regimen Was Well-tolerated; No Events of Any Grade of Cytokine Release Syndrome, Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome, or Graft-vs-Host Disease

SAN DIEGO, June 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer, today highlighted positive interim Phase 1 data from the Companys FT516 program for patients with relapsed / refractory B-cell lymphoma at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting being held virtually June 4-8, 2021. FT516 is the Companys universal, off-the-shelf natural killer (NK) cell product candidate derived from a clonal master induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line engineered with a novel high-affinity, non-cleavable CD16 (hnCD16) Fc receptor, which is designed to maximize antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), a potent anti-tumor mechanism by which NK cells recognize, bind and kill antibody-coated cancer cells. The ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation study of FT516 is currently enrolling patients in the fourth dose cohort of 900 million cells per dose.

As of the data cutoff date of March 11, 2021, four patients in the second dose cohort of 90 million cells per dose and seven patients in the third dose cohort of 300 million cells per dose were evaluable for assessment of safety and efficacy. Eight of eleven patients achieved an objective response, including six patients who achieved a complete response, as assessed by PET-CT scan per Lugano 2014 criteria (see Table 1). Patients had received a median of three prior lines of therapy and a median of two prior lines containing CD20-targeted therapy. Of the eleven patients, eight patients had aggressive B-cell lymphoma, five patients were refractory to their most recent prior therapy, and four patients were previously treated with autologous CD19 CAR-T cell therapy.

These additional data from our Phase 1 study of FT516 administered off-the-shelf in the outpatient setting continue to reinforce its differentiated safety profile and underscore its potential clinical benefit, said Wayne Chu, M.D., Senior Vice President of Clinical Development of Fate Therapeutics. Based on the favorable therapeutic profile of FT516 that continues to emerge and the potential to treat patients on-demand without delay, we plan to initiate multiple indication-specific, dose-expansion cohorts for patients with B-cell lymphomas to broadly assess FT516 in combination with CD20-targeted monoclonal antibody regimens, including those used as standard-of-care in earlier-line settings.

The ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial in relapsed / refractory B-cell lymphoma is assessing FT516 in an off-the-shelf treatment regimen of up to two cycles, with each cycle consisting of three days of conditioning chemotherapy (500 mg/m2 of cyclophosphamide and 30 mg/m2 of fludarabine), a single-dose of rituximab (375 mg/m2), and three weekly doses of FT516 each with IL-2 cytokine support. The FT516 treatment regimen is designed to be administered in the outpatient setting.

Safety Data No dose-limiting toxicities, and no FT516-related serious adverse events or FT516-related Grade 3 or greater adverse events, were observed. The FT516 treatment regimen was well tolerated, and no treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) of any grade of cytokine release syndrome, immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, or graft-versus-host disease were reported by investigators (see Table 2). All Grade 3 or greater TEAEs were consistent with lympho-conditioning chemotherapy and underlying disease. Of note, a Grade 3 or greater TEAE of infection was reported in one patient only. There were no discontinuations due to adverse events, and no patients withdrew from the study except in the setting of disease progression. In addition, no evidence of anti-product T- or B-cell mediated host-versus-product alloreactivity was detected, supporting the potential to safely administer up to six doses of FT516 in the outpatient setting without the need for patient matching.

Activity Data As of the data cutoff date of March 11, 2021, eleven relapsed / refractory patients in the second and third dose cohorts were evaluable for assessment of safety and efficacy. Of the eleven patients, nine patients completed both FT516 treatment cycles and eight patients achieved an objective response, including six patients who achieved a complete response, as assessed by PET-CT scan per Lugano 2014 criteria. Notably, two of four patients previously treated with autologous CD19 CAR-T cell therapy achieved a complete response. Two patients showed progressive disease following the first FT516 treatment cycle and discontinued treatment. The Company previously reported that two patients treated in the first dose cohort (30 million cells per dose) showed progressive disease.

Patient Case Study The ASCO presentation featured a case study of a 36-year old male with triple-hit, high-grade B-cell lymphoma with rearrangements of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 genes. The patient was refractory to all prior lines of therapy with the exception of autologous CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, for which a complete response of two months duration was achieved. The patient was most recently refractory to an investigational CD20-targeted T-cell engager and presented with bulky lymphadenopathy with the largest lesion measuring approximately 10 centimeters. The first FT516 treatment cycle resulted in a complete response with resolution of all metabolically active disease and 85% reduction in the size of target lesions. Subsequent to the data cutoff date of March 11, 2021, the patient completed a second FT516 treatment cycle after which the response assessment continued to show complete response.

As of March 11, 2021 database entry. Data subject to source document verification. CR = Complete Response; PR = Partial Response; PD = Progressive Disease CAR = Chimeric antigen receptor; DH/DE = Double-hit / double expressor; DLBCL = Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; FL = Follicular lymphoma; Gr = Grade; HGBCL = High-grade B-cell lymphoma; iNHL = Indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma; TH = Triple-hit; Transformed iNHL = Aggressive B-cell lymphoma transformed from indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma 1 Cycle 2 Day 29 protocol-defined response assessment per Lugano 2014 criteria 2 Subject did not proceed to Cycle 2 3 Confirmed DLBCL (transformation from Gr3A FL) subsequent to the data cutoff date of March 11, 2021 4 Cycle 2 Day 29 protocol-defined response assessment reported subsequent to the data cutoff date of March 11, 2021

CRS = Cytokine Release Syndrome; DL = Dose Level; GvHD = Graft vs. Host Disease; ICANS = Immune Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome; M = Million; SAE = Serious Adverse Event; TEAE = Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event 1 Includes two subjects in the first dose cohort of 30 million cells per dose

About Fate Therapeutics iPSC Product Platform The Companys proprietary induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) product platform enables mass production of off-the-shelf, engineered, homogeneous cell products that are designed to be administered with multiple doses to deliver more effective pharmacologic activity, including in combination with other cancer treatments. Human iPSCs possess the unique dual properties of unlimited self-renewal and differentiation potential into all cell types of the body. The Companys first-of-kind approach involves engineering human iPSCs in a one-time genetic modification event and selecting a single engineered iPSC for maintenance as a clonal master iPSC line. Analogous to master cell lines used to manufacture biopharmaceutical drug products such as monoclonal antibodies, clonal master iPSC lines are a renewable source for manufacturing cell therapy products which are well-defined and uniform in composition, can be mass produced at significant scale in a cost-effective manner, and can be delivered off-the-shelf for patient treatment. As a result, the Companys platform is uniquely designed to overcome numerous limitations associated with the production of cell therapies using patient- or donor-sourced cells, which is logistically complex and expensive and is subject to batch-to-batch and cell-to-cell variability that can affect clinical safety and efficacy. Fate Therapeutics iPSC product platform is supported by an intellectual property portfolio of over 350 issued patents and 150 pending patent applications.

About FT516 FT516 is an investigational, universal, off-the-shelf natural killer (NK) cell cancer immunotherapy derived from a clonal master induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line engineered to express a novel high-affinity 158V, non-cleavable CD16 (hnCD16) Fc receptor, which has been modified to prevent its down-regulation and to enhance its binding to tumor-targeting antibodies. CD16 mediates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), a potent anti-tumor mechanism by which NK cells recognize, bind and kill antibody-coated cancer cells. ADCC is dependent on NK cells maintaining stable and effective expression of CD16, which has been shown to undergo considerable down-regulation in cancer patients. In addition, CD16 occurs in two variants, 158V or 158F, that elicit high or low binding affinity, respectively, to the Fc domain of IgG1 antibodies. Scientists from the Company have shown in a peer-reviewed publication (Blood. 2020;135(6):399-410) that hnCD16 iPSC-derived NK cells, compared to peripheral blood NK cells, elicit a more durable anti-tumor response and extend survival in combination with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies in an in vivo xenograft mouse model of human lymphoma. Numerous clinical studies with FDA-approved tumor-targeting antibodies, including rituximab, trastuzumab and cetuximab, have demonstrated that patients homozygous for the 158V variant, which is present in only about 15% of patients, have improved clinical outcomes. FT516 is being investigated in a multi-dose Phase 1 clinical trial as a monotherapy for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and in combination with CD20-targeted monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of advanced B-cell lymphoma (NCT04023071). Additionally, FT516 is being investigated in a multi-dose Phase 1 clinical trial in combination with avelumab for the treatment of advanced solid tumor resistant to anti-PDL1 checkpoint inhibitor therapy (NCT04551885).

About Fate Therapeutics, Inc. Fate Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of first-in-class cellular immunotherapies for patients with cancer. The Company has established a leadership position in the clinical development and manufacture of universal, off-the-shelf cell products using its proprietary induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) product platform. The Companys immuno-oncology pipeline includes off-the-shelf, iPSC-derived natural killer (NK) cell and T-cell product candidates, which are designed to synergize with well-established cancer therapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies, and to target tumor-associated antigens using chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Fate Therapeutics is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.fatetherapeutics.com.

Forward-Looking Statements This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including statements regarding the safety and therapeutic potential of the Companys iPSC-derived NK cell product candidates, including FT516, its ongoing and planned clinical studies, and the expected clinical development plans for FT516. These and any other forward-looking statements in this release are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that results observed in studies of its product candidates, including preclinical studies and clinical trials of any of its product candidates, will not be observed in ongoing or future studies involving these product candidates, the risk that the Company may cease or delay clinical development of any of its product candidates for a variety of reasons (including requirements that may be imposed by regulatory authorities on the initiation or conduct of clinical trials, the amount and type of data to be generated, or otherwise to support regulatory approval, difficulties or delays in subject enrollment and continuation in current and planned clinical trials, difficulties in manufacturing or supplying the Companys product candidates for clinical testing, and any adverse events or other negative results that may be observed during preclinical or clinical development), and the risk that its product candidates may not produce therapeutic benefits or may cause other unanticipated adverse effects. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause the Companys actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the risks and uncertainties detailed in the Companys periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Companys most recently filed periodic report, and from time to time in the Companys press releases and other investor communications.Fate Therapeutics is providing the information in this release as of this date and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Action Taken by Governor Phil Scott on Legislation – June 7, 2021 – Office of Governor Phil Scott

Montpelier, Vt. - Governor Phil Scott announced action on the following bills, passed by the General Assembly.

On June 7, Governor Scott signed bills of the following titles:

Governor Scott issued the following statement when signing S.3:

Public safety is a top priority for my Administration, as is the mental health of Vermonters. This important piece of legislation will help address the limitations of our current systems by lessening the gap between the criminal justice and mental health systems. It also takes steps to ensure due process in the criminal system, protect public safety, and ensure that those experiencing mental illness receive appropriate treatment. I want to thank our partners and members of the judiciary committees for their work.

Governor Scott issued the following statement when signing S.15:

Im signing this bill because I believe making sure voting is easy and accessible, and increasing voter participation, is important. Having said that, we should not limit this expansion of access to general elections alone, which already have the highest voter turnout.

For greater consistency and to expand access further, I am asking the General Assembly to extend the provisions of this bill to primary elections, local elections and school budget votes when they return to session in January.

Governor Scott issued the following statement when signing S.48:

Making it easier to live and work in Vermont to address our demographic and workforce crisis has been a top priority for my Administration. I am proud of the work we have done in previous years with the Secretary of States Office to make it easier for servicemen and women to transition into the civilian workforce in Vermont, and reforming rules to make it easier for people with licenses in other states to become licensed in Vermont.

After all weve been through the past 15 months, it is more clear than ever how important nurses are to our communities, and we need to continue to add tools to attract more to the Green Mountain State. Joining the compact will help us do that, while also ensuring more uniform standards and protecting public health.

To view a complete list of action on bills passed during the 2021 legislative session, click here.

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Cancer research: New advances and innovations – Medical News Today

In the second part of our whats exciting the experts series, Medical News Today spoke with another group of cancer experts. We asked them what recent advances have given them the most hope. Here, we provide a sneak peek at the fascinating forefront of cancer research in 2021.

Cancer is not a single disease but a collection of diseases. It is complex and does not readily give up its secrets. Despite the challenges cancer poses, scientists and clinicians continue to hone the way in which they diagnose and treat it.

Modern medicine means that diagnosis rates for many cancers are up, as are survival rates. However, with an estimated 19.3 million new cases of cancer worldwide in 2020, there is still much work to be done.

MNT recently contacted a number of medical experts and researchers and asked them to speak about the aspects of cancer research that they find most exciting. Their answers are fascinating and demonstrate the incredible variety of approaches that scientists are using to understand and combat cancer.

We will start todays journey into cutting edge oncology with a surprising guest: magnetically responsive bacteria.

Due to the difficulty of targeting systemically delivered therapeutics for cancer, interest has grown in exploiting biological agents to enhance tumor accumulation, explained Prof. Simone Schrle-Finke, Ph.D., from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

In other words, getting cancer drugs to the right place is not as straightforward as one might hope. Prof. Schrle-Finke is among the researchers who are now enlisting the help of specialized bacteria.

She told MNT how scientists have known for a century that certain bacteria can colonize tumors and trigger regression. She explained that today, thanks to modern genetic engineering techniques, attenuated bacteria are available that can have a therapeutic effect exactly where this is necessary.

These therapeutic effects include secretion of toxins, competition for nutrients, and modulation of immune responses.

However, despite the promise of bacterial cancer therapy, there are still challenges to meet. Delivering the doses to the right place and getting them into the tumor remain foremost among challenges hampering clinical translation only about 1% of a systemically injected dose reaches the tumor, explained Prof. Schrle-Finke.

To address these challenges, her team at ETH Zurich is using magnetically responsive bacteria.

These so-called magnetotactic bacteria naturally orient themselves like compass needles to Earths magnetic field.

Although this ability evolved for navigation, scientists are keen to find out whether magnetic steering or pulling could allow them to repurpose it for cancer delivery.

In a recent study, Prof. Schrle-Finke and her colleagues used rotating magnetic fields to override the bacterias natural propulsion. As the authors of the study explain, they used swarms of magnetotactic bacteria to create a directable living ferrofluid.

These magnetotactic bacteria have a high demand for iron, so once they reach the tumor, as Prof. Schrle-Finke told MNT, they can metabolically influence cancer cells through starvation from this vital nutrient. We have shown in in vitro models that an increasing number of bacteria induce an upregulation of iron-scavenging receptors and death in cancer cells.

By uniting engineering principles and synthetic biology, we aim to provide a new framework for bacterial cancer therapy that addresses a major remaining hurdle by improving the efficiency of bacterial delivery using safe and scalable magnetic stimuli to these promising living therapeutic platforms.

Prof. Simone Schrle-Finke, Ph.D.

Personalized medicine is transforming the landscape of medicine and how healthcare providers can offer and plan personalized care for each of their patients, believes Dr. Santosh Kesari, Ph.D., director of neuro-oncology at Providence Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica, CA.

Dr. Kesari is also chair of the Department of Translational Neurosciences at Saint Johns Cancer Institute and regional medical director for the Research Clinical Institute of Providence Southern California.

Describing personalized medicine, Dr. Kesari said, It is an approach for disease prevention and treatment that takes into account biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, and social risk factors that are unique to every individual.

He continued, Personalized medicine is rooted in early detection and prevention; integrating data from genomics and other advanced technologies; digital health monitoring; and incorporating the latest medical innovations for optimizing outcomes.

This is becoming very apparent in oncology, where genetic testing for tumor mutations and predispositions is increasingly being utilized and showing more value in using targeted drugs more wisely and improving outcomes.

Dr. Santosh Kesari, Ph.D.

Some personalized cancer approaches are already in use, such as EGFR, HER2, and NTRK inhibitors and the super personalized CAR-T cells.

According to Dr. Kesari, the future of personalization is bright, and progress has only accelerated in the past 5 years.

Continuing with the personalization theme, Dr. Robert Dallmann from Warwick Medical School at Warwick University in the United Kingdom talked with us about chronotherapy:

Propelled by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology [going] to three circadian biologists for uncovering the molecular mechanism of circadian biological clocks, cancer chronotherapy is gaining critical momentum to enter mainstream oncology especially in the context of personalized medicine.

Dr. Dallmann explained that many key physiological processes in the cells of our body are modulated in a daily fashion by the circadian clock. These cellular clocks are disrupted in some tumors but not in others.

Interestingly, a functional clock in the tumor predicts the survival time of patients, which has been shown for brain as well as breast tumors.

Therefore, he explained, if scientists could determine the clock status in solid tumors, it would allow doctors to more easily determine whether a patient is at high or low risk. It might also help guide therapy.

There is great potential in optimizing treatment plans with existing drugs by taking into account the interaction with the circadian system of the patient, continued Dr. Dallmann.

More recently, the circadian clock mechanism itself has been proposed as a novel treatment target in glioblastoma. The authors of the glioblastoma study concluded that pharmacologic targeting of circadian networks specifically disrupted cancer stem cell growth and self-renewal.

However, whether this might be generalized to many solid tumors or even other chronic diseases remains to be elucidated, said Dr. Dallmann.

In summary, he told MNT, circadian clocks have long been recognized to modulate chronic disease on many levels. The increased mechanistic understanding has the potential to improve diagnosis and existing treatments of cancer, as well as develop a new class of clock-targeting treatments.

Dr. Chung-Han Lee is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is also a member of the Kidney Cancer Associations Medical Steering Committee. He talked us through recent advances in the treatment of kidney cancer.

The development and subsequent regulatory approval of combination immunotherapy for patients with metastatic kidney cancer have led to transformative change in the lives of many patients and are the hallmark of how greater scientific understanding has impacted cancer care, Dr. Lee told MNT.

Prior to 2005, treatment for metastatic kidney cancer was very limited, with most patients passing away in less than 1 year despite undergoing treatment. According to Dr. Lee, the development of antiangiogenic drugs that inhibit the growth of new blood vessels was among the first breakthroughs to improve the outcomes for patients.

However, even with antiangiogenic drugs, most patients ultimately developed resistance to treatment, and 18 months was considered a long-term response. Next came immunotherapies.

Prior to the development of antiangiogenic medications, it was known that kidney cancer could be treated by activating the immune system to better recognize the disease. However, the tools to activate the immune system were often very nonspecific. Therefore, responses to these early immunotherapies were rare, and the side effects related to treatment were not only burdensome but also could be life threatening.

With recent advances in immunotherapy, we have demonstrated that more targeted immunotherapies that activate specific immune checkpoints are not only possible but can have substantially increased activity against disease.

Two emerging treatment approaches have now become the new standard of care for kidney cancer: dual immunotherapies (such as ipilimumab/nivolumab) or combinations of antiangiogenic targeted therapies with immunotherapies (such as axitinib/pembrolizumab).

In patients treated with ipilimumab and nivolumab, over 50% remain alive at 4 years, and with some [combined antiangiogenic and immunotherapy approaches], nearly 50% of patients remain on their initial therapy at 2 years.

Despite these advances, Dr. Lee is far from complacent, telling us that there remains considerable work to be done. [] Unfortunately, in 2021, for most patients, kidney cancer remains fatal. Even for those who have outstanding responses to treatment, most still require ongoing systemic therapy.

With the rapid improvements in treatments, the development of correlative biomarkers, and the improved biologic understanding of the disease, we have only started to entertain the possibility of curative, time-limited therapy.

Building on the sacrifices of patients and caregivers and the hard work of clinicians, research staff, and scientists, a cure may, one day, be a reality for our patients, he concluded.

Our study from late 2020 has shown that the antidepressant sertraline helps to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in mice, Prof. Kim De Keersmaecker from KU LEUVEN in Belgium told MNT.

Other studies had already indicated that the commonly used antidepressant has anticancer activity, but there was no explanation for the cause of this. Weve been able to demonstrate that sertraline inhibits the production of serine and glycine, causing decreased growth of cancer cells.

Cancer cells and healthy cells are often reliant on the amino acids serine and glycine, which they extract from their environment. However, certain cancer cells produce serine and glycine within the cell. They can become addicted to this production.

This internal production of serine and glycine requires certain enzymes, and these enzymes have become targets for cancer researchers. Preventing them from functioning can starve the cancer cells.

Previous studies have identified inhibitors of serine/glycine synthesis enzymes, but none have reached the clinical trial stage. As the authors of a KU LEUVEN study note, because sertraline is a clinically used drug that can safely be used in humans, it might make a good candidate.

Prof. De Keersmaecker explained that when used with other therapeutics, the drug strongly inhibited the growth of cancer cells in the mice.

The authors of the study concluded: Collectively, this work provides a novel and cost efficient treatment option for the rapidly growing list of serine/glycine synthesis-addicted cancers.

Christy Maksoudian from the NanoHealth & Optical Imaging Group team at KE LEUVEN is excited about the promise of nanotechnology for the treatment of cancer. She told MNT that because of the unique properties that emerge at such a small scale, nanoparticles can be designed in a multitude of ways to exhibit specific behaviors in organisms.

Currently, she explained, many available nanoformulations in the clinic are composed of organic materials because of their biocompatibility and safety. In this context, organic refers to compounds that include carbon.

However, she explains that inorganic nanomaterials, which do not contain carbon, also hold promise for cancer treatment because they possess further functionalities.

For instance, some magnetic nanoparticles, such as those of superparamagnetic iron oxide, can be magnetically guided toward the tumor, while gold nanoparticles generate heat upon exposure to near-infrared light and can, therefore, be used for photothermal therapy (via tumor tissue ablation).

In short, it is possible to introduce gold nanoparticles to the bloodstream of people with cancer. From there, these nanoparticles accumulate in tumors because tumors have particularly leaky blood vessels. Once that region is exposed to near-infrared light, the gold nanoparticles heat up and, consequently, kill cancer cells.

Because of the potential of such broad range of nanomaterial designs, there are always novel cancer therapies being developed.

Christy Maksoudian

I am excited to take part in this movement with my work on copper oxide nanoparticles. Maksoudian and her colleagues use copper oxide nanoparticles doped with 6% iron.

Maksoudian told MNT that these nanoparticles exploit intrinsic metabolic differences between cancer cells and healthy cells to induce high levels of toxicity in cancer cells while only causing reversible damage in healthy tissue.

The fact that such cancer-selective properties can arise due to minor modifications of the nanoparticles at the nanoscale is truly extraordinary and reaffirms the significant role that nanomedicine can play in expanding the treatment landscape for oncology.

Cancer is complex, so approaches to its treatment must match that complexity. As the summaries above demonstrate, scientists are not short on ingenuity, and the battle against cancer continues at pace.

Read the first part of our series on cancer researchers and their exciting work here.

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