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New Treatment Gives Hope to Cancer Patients

A new treatment called amivantamab gave new hope to cancer patients who had run out of options. The treatment, a simple jab, made tumours vanish completely in 15 patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Tumours shrank or disappeared in 43 people, often within weeks. The results were led by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

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The essential points

  1. 01New treatment gives hope to cancer patients
  2. 02Simple jab made tumours vanish in 15 patients
  3. 03Tumours shrank or disappeared in 43 people
  4. 04Results led by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research
The full brief

A new treatment called amivantamab gave new hope to cancer patients who had run out of options. The treatment, a simple jab, made tumours vanish completely in 15 patients with advanced head and neck cancer.

Tumours shrank or disappeared in 43 people, often within weeks. The results were led by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research in London and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.