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The most hopeful cancer news in years

Attendees cheer as Dr. Brian Wolpin presents his results at the 2026 ASCO annual meeting in Chicago on May 31, 2026. | ASCO/Scott Morgan 2026 In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium and in a voice that sounded as if he was reading from the phone book, recited a set of numbers that brought a roomful of cancer doctors to their feet for 42 seconds. Adam Feuerstein, a biotech correspondent for the health news site Stat who has covered cancer conferences like this for two decades, said he had never witnessed anything like...