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Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma said on December 15 that it will discontinue its global PIII clinical study of the cancer vaccine DSP-7888 (adegramotide/nelatimotide) in patients with recurrent or progressive glioblastoma (GBM). Based on the results of the study’s second interim analysis,…
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