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The US FDA has approved Elacestrant, the first oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer who are estrogen receptor positive, HER2 negative and have an ESR1 mutation. Results of the trial showed that patients treated with Elacestrant had a 45% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death.

Prostate cancer, which has been increasing in incidence worldwide in recent years, is now a more common cancer among Japanese men. Often, patients with prostate cancer have a poor prognosis and poor survival once they have developed multiple recurrent metastases after treatment with hormones and are difficult to treat with conventional radiotherapy.

For brain cancer, the major obstacle to treatment is not the tumour, but the brain itself. How to break the "blood-brain barrier" and allow effective anti-cancer drugs to enter the brain to take effect has long been a key issue in brain cancer treatment. Recently, a new study has shown that a new type of pump can be implanted in brain cancer patients to safely break the blood-brain barrier and better treat brain cancer!

Science has published two consecutive research articles that suggest new ways to improve the efficacy of CAR-T for solid tumours.

Afamitresgene Autoleucel, also known as Afami-cel or ADP-A2M4, is a novel TCR-T cell immunotherapy that has produced durable and promising results in patients with advanced synovial sarcoma or mucinous/round cell liposarcoma

DZD1516 is a reversible, selective HER2-targeting agent with full blood-brain barrier penetration. It has demonstrated good therapeutic response in phase I studies in patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, including breast cancer patients with central nervous system metastases.

A recent study led by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on prostate cancer shows that by stopping the "transformation" of cancer cells in prostate cancer, new treatments are expected to overcome drug resistance.

The European Union has approved the marketing of the new treatment Opdualag for the treatment of melanoma patients. New data demonstrates that the treatment resulted in the complete disappearance of tumours in 16.3% of patients, a significant reduction in tumours in 26.8% and stable disease without further progression in 18.2% of patients, giving an efficiency rate of 61.3%.

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare but very deadly childhood tumour, and for more than 40 years there have been no new advances in the treatment of this disease. Recently, a study led by Professor Anton Henssen of the Charité University of Berlin has identified a promising new treatment for the disease.

A cutting-edge study from the University of California, San Francisco, recently showed that researchers have been able to make immune cells, which already recognize cancer cells, more powerful and durable through CRISPR gene editing tools, promising to become tireless, cold-blooded "cancer killers"!