The European Commission June 3 approved Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with etoposide, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine and dexamethasone—a chemotherapy regimen—in adult patients with newly diagnosed stage 2b with risk factors, stage 3, and stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma. The decision follows a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on April 25.
The National Medical Products Administration in China approved zanidatamab for the treatment of patients with previously treated, unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive biliary tract cancer.
Meitheal Pharmaceuticals Inc. on May 29 announced it has launched, through an exclusive license and supply agreement with its parent company, Hong Kong King-Friend Industry Co., Ltd., paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension (albumin-bound), a generic form of Abraxane, in the U.S.
At the end of her first day on the job as CEO of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, W. Kimryn Rathmell reflected on her decision to take the CEO job at the third largest cancer hospital in the United States.
Pfizer External Research & Grants’ “Improving Breast Cancer Quality of Care via Meaningful Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa,” powered by EveryGrant, has announced grants totaling more than $900,000 for addressing inequities and improving the quality of breast cancer care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It started innocuously enough. I looked in the mirror and noticed a pigmented area on my scalp just into the hairline. Like many patients, thoughts started running through my head: “Maybe it’s nothing.” Looking at my Outlook calendar, it was packed morning-to-night with meetings, patients, and travel, so I decided I would get that spot checked out the minute I had “time.”
With advances in treatment and screening for earlier detection, oncologists have improved cancer survival rates dramatically. That is excellent news, but the surging number of survivors means it is increasingly important for providers to focus more diligently on what patients need to thrive after treatment.
In the morning of May 28, presumably before turning off the lights and closing the office door, someone at the now defunct NCI Office of Communications and Public Liaison decided to post a farewell message to the cancer community. The message, posted on multiple social media accounts, read: Indeed, the entire communications arm of NCI... […]
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is considering a ban on government scientists publishing their work in top-tier medical journals, which he says are abed with pharmaceutical companies.
President Trump has issued an executive order, titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” which “ensures that agencies practice data transparency, acknowledge relevant scientific uncertainties, are transparent about the assumptions and likelihood of scenarios used, approach scientific findings objectively, and communicate scientific data accurately.”
