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Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, on NSCLC: A Vaccine Under Study to Treat Advanced Disease

ESMO Congress 2021

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Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, of the Institut Gustave Roussy, discusses final phase III findings from the Atalante-1 trial, which explored the question of whether the OSE2101 vaccine is more beneficial than standard treatment for patients with HLA-A2–positive non–small cell lung cancer after immune checkpoint inhibitors are no longer effective (Abstract LBA47).



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