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Stomach Cancer Research

  • Nivolumab Improves Survival for Some Patients with Advanced Stomach Cancer
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    For some people with advanced stomach cancer, the drug nivolumab (Opdivo) plus chemotherapy may improve how long they live, results from a large clinical trial show. The trial also included patients with gastric cancers that involve the esophagus.

  • Incidence of Cancers of the Lower Stomach Increasing among Younger Americans
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    A type of cancer that occurs in the lower stomach has been increasing among some Americans under the age of 50, even though in the general population the incidence of all stomach cancers has been declining for decades, according to a new study.

  • Pembrolizumab Secures FDA Approval in Stomach Cancer
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    The FDA has granted accelerated approval to the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) for use in patients with advanced gastric (stomach) cancer that is PD-L1 positive.

  • TCGA researchers identify four subtypes of stomach cancer
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    Stomach cancers fall into four distinct molecular subtypes, researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Network have found. Scientists report that this discovery could change how researchers think about developing treatments for stomach cancer, also called gastric cancers or gastric adenocarcinomas.

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