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JULY 12, 2018

Investigational Immunotherapy Looks Positive for HPV-Related Epithelial Cancers

By SPC News Staff

An investigational new drug that targets human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) in solid tumor cancers caused by HPV shows promise, according to a session at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago (abstract 3043).

T-cell receptor (TCR) therapy is a type of personalized immunotherapy designed to activate the immune system’s ability to recognize and target specific tumors. TCR therapy involves engineering a person’s own T cells