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  • FDA Approves Drug Targeting Johns Hopkins-Discovered Brain Cancer Gene Mutation

    FDA Approves Drug Targeting Johns Hopkins-Discovered Brain Cancer Gene Mutation

    A new drug for treatment of a type of brain cancer, called IDH-mutant low-grade glioma, was approved Aug. 6 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The promising new drug stems from a 2008 genetic discovery made at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

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