A movement that began with a fatal chokehold on a Minneapolis street grew into demands for police reform, but outrage didn’t stop there. Amplifying, reverberating, it became a call for racial justice in medicine, in oncology.
Since the dawn of man: when a novel virus is introduced to the human species, the world is changed forever. Despite all of our advances—we can share information around the globe in seconds and we can fly to the moon—a never-before-seen virus can stop us all in our tracks and steal people’s lives too soon.
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
Atezolizumab in combination with bevacizumab was approved by FDA for patients with unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma who have not received prior systemic therapy.
Cyramza (Ramucirumab) was approved by FDA in combination with erlotinib for first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) mutations.
Piqray received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency.
Sarclisa (isatuximab) was approved by the European Commission in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least two prior therapies including lenalidomide and a proteasome inhibitor and have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.
The subcutaneous formulation of Darzalex (daratumumab) was granted marketing approval by the European Commission for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma in all currently approved daratumumab intravenous formulation indications in frontline and relapsed / refractory settings.
A new American Cancer Society study puts a price tag on racial disparities in cancer mortality, finding that $3.2 billion in lost earnings would have been avoided in 2015 if non-Hispanic blacks had equal years of life lost from cancer deaths and earning rates as NH whites.
A phase III trial evaluating Keytruda monotherapy demonstrated a significant reduction in risk of disease progression in death in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer.
