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‹ Tue · 25 Aug 2026
Promising but preliminary

B cells in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: From prognostic signal to therapeutic hypothesis-A critical appraisal of the RATIONALE-309 biomarker analysis.

Adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy sustained survival benefits in advanced nasopharyngeal cancer over three years.

This PubMed record reports the 3-year follow-up of the phase 3 RATIONALE-309 trial confirmed sustained progression-free and overall survival (OS) benefit with tislelizumab plus gemcitabine-cisplatin in recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (R/M NPC). The study was classified as randomized controlled trial and is relevant to treatment innovation.

What the study was

Study design
Randomized controlled trial
Category
Treatment Innovation
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Translational oncology

Why it surfaced

Conservative triage based on the PubMed abstract, randomized controlled trial, clinical relevance, and unmet-need signals.

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