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    Lenvatinib can continue to be administered in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma that has Child-Pugh class B liver function, as they experienced a similar tumor size reduction as their Child-Pugh class A counterparts in a post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 REFLECT trial.

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    Ghassan K Abou-Alfa (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA) presented the results of a global phase 2 study of the investigational PD-1 antibody tislelizumab in patients with previously treated unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. 249 patients were enrolled and received tislelizumab 200 mg intravenously every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint, overall response rate by…

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    Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can achieve durable responses, and overall survival is “encouraging” with the novel immunotherapy, even after multiple prior therapies.

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    • With the new immunotherapy tislelizumab, durable responses are achieved for patients with advanced HCC, regardless of the number of prior lines of therapy, show results from a phase 2, open-label trial. https://t.co/1EaEujRbMs #WorldGI2021