Marlowe Tessmer
Executive Editor of Clinical Cancer Research, published by AACR @theaacr.bsky.social. Brown & Northwestern Alum, home chef by night. Opinions are my own. @aacrjournals.bsky.social
- 🧪🔬 The Impact of Concordance between Liquid and Tissue Biopsy for Actionable Mutations: Insights from the ROME Trial Phase Ib/II Study of Zanidatamab in Combination with Tislelizumab and Chemotherapy in First-Line HER2-Positive Gastric/Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma
- For January, the editors of AACR’s 10 peer-reviewed journals highlighted studies about better understanding the naked mole rat’s cancer resistance, the importance of using tissue and liquid biopsy in concordance, and more Read on the #AACRBlog: buff.ly/vi2eP6h
- 🧪Punxsutawney Phil made his sad prediction. Only a beautiful February Cover for Clinical Cancer Research can cheer me up. Tumor section from a patient with head & neck squamous cell carcinoma showing strong MHC-II and CD86 expressions within a proliferation center. Article by Chaudhary et al.
- 🧪The authors enhanced the anti-tumor response in recurrent high grade glioma patients by combining the oncolytic adenovirus Delta-24-RGD with IFN-𝛾 to activate immune cells. Peripheral blood analysis distinguished a small number of patients with longer-term survival. aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...
- The cover shows multiplex immunohistochemical staining of a colorectal cancer tissue section highlighting proliferating tumor cells and cytotoxic T cells within the tumor microenvironment. For details, see the article by Kastinen and colleagues in this issue of CCR.
- If you are going to the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego and want to discuss publishing your work in Clinical Cancer Research, I'll be in attendance if you want to set up a time to meet.
- Register by February 27 to get the lowest available rates for the AACR Annual Meeting 2026 (April 17-22; San Diego). Learn more: buff.ly/rpx0sov #AACR26
- A four biomarker blood panel significantly enhances the detection of early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
- Read the study, just published in Clinical Cancer Research: Improving a Plasma Biomarker Panel for Early Detection of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma with Aminopeptidase N (ANPEP) and Polymeric Immunoglobulin Receptor (PIGR) doi.org/10.1158/1078...
