New treatments aim to combat renal cell cancer and melanoma

Renal cell cancer vaccines Immatics Biotechnologies' cancer vaccine IMA901 is currently in phase III trials for the first-line treatment of metastatic renal cell cancer. The drug, which was shown to have a positive safety profile in its single-arm Phase II trial, is expected to gain approval in the US and five major EU markets* by 2015. It's estimated that IMA901 will be worth $88m by 2022, but is likely to face competition from Argos therapeutics/Kyowa HakkoKirin's AGS-003 which is currently at the same stage of development...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Source Type: news