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How is this the “first experimental cancer treatment” ?

It’s not. Of course.

It may be the first triple immunotherapy (3 checkpoint inhibitors), given in a neo-adjuvant setting, in glioblastoma.

Still cool, less catchy

(Or maybe I don’t understand “world-first” ?)



The term "world-first" in this context means that this is the first specific cancer treatment of this type:

> It is the first documented use of neoadjuvant triple immunotherapy in glioblastoma

If the headline read "world's first" then it would imply what you understood


We love to debate headlines, don’t we? But along those lines, it seems like they could just say it’s “new” and that would be good enough; a headline doesn’t need to be any more specific.




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