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The Promise And Pitfalls Of IO Exuberance And How To Rethink The Approach To Cancer Innovation

Immuno-oncology has produced some exciting successes, but the field has become intensely crowded. Enormous resources are being poured into duplicative work and shaky hypotheses—overshadowing other pursuits in cancer research while producing limited results. It is time to re-evaluate how the sector should be pursuing innovation in cancer and how it can be smarter in its use of resources—financial investment, talent, bandwidth, patients and data.

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IO Has Become A Crowded Field With Many Players Attacking The Same Targets • Source: Shutterstock

Innovation in thinking and approaches holds the promise to drive innovation in cancer care. These three approaches will help the R&D sector pursue oncology innovation in a smarter, more effective way:

In oncology clinical development, every year brings new breakthroughs: drugs that can put previously intractable cancers into remission, or double...

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