Banner MD Anderson study finds breakthrough potential in melanoma treatment

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Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center is offering a new hope for patients with advanced melanoma who no longer respond to standard immunotherapies.

In a Phase II clinical trial, researchers found that a novel investigational treatment — RP1, a genetically engineered virus — used in combination with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab significantly shrank tumors in about one in three patients whose disease had progressed after standard treatment…

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