FDA approved Tevimbra (tislelizumab-jsgr), in combination with platinum-containing chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (≥1).
The University of New England recently signed its first intellectual property license agreement with Satya Diagnostics—a company that recently received $100,000 in MaineHealth Bonfire Funding to help it achieve its goal of improving cancer detection and treatment in communities across the world.
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
The House Republicans have narrowly pushed through a FY25 budget resolution, setting off a tangle of life-and-death sequelae for access to health insurance through Medicaid and Obamacare, and through a second-order effect, biomedical research.
On the evening of Feb. 15, when the dreaded letter of termination arrived, an NCI employee was just a few weeks away from job security—the end of the probationary period.
Knowledge is power, and this information, true for many cancers, is valuable for everyone to know—either to have an awareness of their own bodies and the factors that they can control, or to create spaces for empathy with persons they might encounter with cancer.
Shearwood McClelland III’s grandfather was a ditchdigger who dreamed that his six Black daughters would become doctors. McClelland’s mother did not disappoint—she became the first Black woman board-certified in maternal fetal medicine in the history of the United States. Now, McClelland is the chief medical officer of Cancer Health Equity at the University of Oklahoma... […]
As oncology enters a new era of precision medicine, the Food and Drug Administration’s evolving biomarker strategy aims to ensure that life-saving therapies are tailored to individual patient needs, fostering safer and more effective treatments. Historically, therapies were approved with broad indications based on overall efficacy, even when outcomes for biomarker-positive and -negative patients were... […]
Former CDER Director Patrizia Cavazzoni named Pfizer chief medical officer, executive vice president
Patrizia Cavazzoni will rejoin Pfizer Inc. as chief medical officer and executive vice president.
Jenny Chang, a cancer clinician-scientist, was named executive vice president, president and CEO, and chief academic officer of the Houston Methodist Academic Institute.
