CDX-011 Study Gives Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients New Hope

“This is the most promising phase 3 trial in triple negative breast cancer in the last five years, since the phase 3 trial with the PARP inhibitor iniparib,” says Cleveland Clinic oncologist and principal investigator Alberto Montero, MD. “CDX-011 is a novel targeted drug for a disease that is defined clinically by the absence of any targets. A potent chemotherapy is delivered in a targeted fashion by being attached to an antibody that recognizes GPNMB, which is overexpressed in about 25 to 30 percent of all triple negative breast cancers.”
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