Paul Campbell has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as an assistant professor in the Cancer Biology Program.
Indiana University School of Medicine received a $14 million gift from the Walther Cancer Foundation to create a supportive oncology program that goes beyond standard therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
So, the federal government shut down while America slept, but it reopened after a five-and-a-half hour pause, by early morning Feb. 9. We've seen this dance before.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr. dared to eradicate cancer from the face of the earth. People thought he was crazy, but for someone who started out delivering fresh eggs as a boy to support his family, went on to invent and then manufacture the polystyrene egg carton, and built from scratch a $12 billion global chemical company with more than 12,000 employees, there was no holding him back. Jon was a dreamer, a risk-taker, a true visionary, and a man whose compassion for others knew no limits. He didn’t sleep. His life was dedicated to making the world a better place: a world without homelessness, a world without hunger, a world without cancer.
Withholding e-cigarettes as an alternative from smokers who are unable to quit equals supporting the continued use of conventional cigarettes, said David Abrams, a member of the National Tobacco Reform Initiative.
FDA has approved lutetium Lu 177 dotatate (Lutathera, Advanced Accelerator Applications USA, Inc.) a radiolabeled somatostatin analog, for the treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, including foregut, midgut, and hindgut neuroendocrine tumors in adults.
Amgen said the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion recommending a label variation for Kyprolis (carfilzomib) to include updated overall survival data from the phase III head-to-head ENDEAVOR trial in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (Kyprolis and dexamethasone versus Velcade [bortezomib] and dexamethasone).
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, announced a new clinical collaboration with AstraZeneca to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AstraZeneca's durvalumab, a human monoclonal antibody directed against programmed death-ligand 1, in combination with SNDX-6352, Syndax's monoclonal antibody inhibitor of Colony-StimulatingFactor 1 Receptor, across a variety of solid tumors.
Novartis has announced updated results from the pivotal ELIANA clinical trial of Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), formerly CTL019, in relapsed or refractory (pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. New data include longer-term follow-up and efficacy in 75 infused patients, analysis of expansion and persistence of Kymriah, and longer-term safety.
