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Tests for new cancer drugs not reliable enough, doctors say

2015-06-02 08:56:21| Biotech - Topix.net

CHICAGO: Drugmakers including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Merck & Co are testing which patients will most benefit from new cancer treatments based on a protein found in their tumors, but that guide, known as a biomarker, may be too unreliable, researchers and health experts said. Bristol's Opdivo and Merck's Keytruda are both therapies designed to block a protein known as Programmed Death receptor that tumors use to evade the body's natural defenses.

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