Roche Drug Shows Benefit in Pediatric Patients With Rare, Molecularly Defined Tumors

May 16, 2019

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Pediatric cancer patients with a variety of tumors harboring NTRK, ROS1, and ALK alterations saw their tumors shrink after treatment with entrectinib, an investigational drug Roche is studying in a pan-cancer indication.

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