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Bristol, Merck, Astra Cancer Killers Face Off

At this year’s American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, a medical conference that starts Friday in Chicago, some of the world’s biggest drugmakers will show off the latest data from a new class of cancer drugs that could bring new hope to patients — and enrich investors. These drugs are part of a field called immuno-oncology (I-O), which uses technologies that manipulate the patient’s immune system to help it fight cancer.

Bristol-Myers Downgraded On Lung-Cancer Drug Data

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) was down more than 6% on the stock market today after the company’s latest cancer-drug data moved one analyst to downgrade the stock, though others saw little that was unexpected. Late Wednesday, the abstracts for various presentations at the upcoming American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting went online, including phase-two data on Bristol’s much-anticipated immuno-oncology candidate nivolumab in combination