Iovance climbs on positive mid-stage data for skin cancer treatment
** Shares of cell therapy developer Iovance Biotherapeutics
IOVA.O rise 6.4% to $10.86 premarket
** IOVA says its cell therapy lifileucel in combination with
Keytruda showed 30% complete response rate in patients with a
type of skin cancer called advanced melanoma
** A complete response is disappearance of all signs of
cancer in response to treatment
** Up to last close, stock up 26.2% YTD
(Reporting by Christy Santhosh)
((Christy.Santhosh@thomsonreuters.com))
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