A study presented today at the IASLC 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer suggests how oncology practices in the United States changed after 2018, when durvalumab became available for patients with unresectable Stage III non-small cell lung cancer. In 2018, PACIFIC trial results on durvalumab were published and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved […]
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FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss drugmaker Roche is seen at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann(Reuters) – Roche Holding AG said on Friday it was withdrawing its immunotherapy, Tecentriq, for the treatment of a type of breast cancer in the United States following a consultation with the Food and Drug […]
A first-in-kind kidney cancer drug developed from laboratory and translational studies conducted at UT Southwestern Medical Center received approval from the Food and Drug Administration, providing a new treatment for patients with familial kidney cancer. Merck's belzutifan grew out of the discovery at UT Southwestern of a protein, HIF-2α, that is key to fuel the […]
Sign up for Daily Star Hot Topics newsletter for the most exciting real life, fashion and sex tips HOT off the press “Pretty girls don’t get cancer” – it’s a sentence you wouldn’t expect to hear from your doctor. But as Patricia Diaz met with her GP to talk about breathlessness and other symptoms, he’d […]
Common blood-pressure drugs may improve survival for patients with colorectal cancer, a new study suggests. After reviewing outcomes of almost 14,000 patients with colorectal cancer, researchers determined that ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers and thiazide diuretics were all associated with decreased mortality. They also found that patients who took their blood-pressure drugs consistently were less likely to […]
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have identified for the first time how a highly aggressive form of breast cancer can evade one of the most powerful and effective drugs used to treat it, reporting their findings in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The findings could help improve therapy and […]
Too many "exhausted" T cells left in the wake of aggressive chemotherapy regimens for patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) make it more challenging for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy to do its job. Now, a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows […]
Read what your sign's 2021 horoscope predictions have in store for you or check out the Cancer personality profile. Welcome to August, Cancer! Last month saw you embracing life as friends and family safely began socializing in a post-vaccine world. You're an excellent caretaker and host, so you may have hosted small gatherings or cooked a delicious meal […]
It usually takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new drug, and they cost around US$2.6 billion each. Because it’s difficult to predict how a drug candidate will interact with human cells, many drugs never pass clinical trials. Testing new drugs on human cells is expensive and complicated, so it is difficult to do […]
