Revolution Medicines is forging ahead with plans to develop its multi-RAS inhibitor, RMC-6236, to tackle pancreatic cancer, but investor concerns about the drug’s safety in lung cancer have caused its share price to dip.
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Tolerability problems with a high dose of its multi-RAS inhibitor in NSCLC patients knocked shares, but Revolution is pressing on in this setting and in pancreatic cancer. It also has eye-catching early results in colorectal cancer.

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