These statements may not be breaking news for oncologists and other physicians, who should have been aware of the lethal nature of cigarette smoking at least since the publication of the first Surgeon General's report on Smoking and Health more than half a century ago. While the report generated front page headlines and led the network newscasts back in January 1964, the tobacco epidemic has continued, causing more than 20 million deaths in the U.S. in the decades since. Cigarette companies have persisted in using their legal, marketing, and propaganda tools to mislead and addict millions of consumers, including underage youth, for the sole purpose of increasing profits.
FDA officials are floating a proposal for a review process informally dubbed “reverse accelerated approval.”
As he goes about the task of building a cancer center, Donald “Skip” Trump has to align the money, the real estate, the recruitment—all the customary components of an institution.
FDA approved Sutent (sunitinib malate) for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients who are at a high risk of renal cell carcinoma returning after nephrectomy.
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month. For further information, contact the principal investigator listed.
Ziopharm Oncology Inc. announced positive data updates supporting survival benefit and the underlying immune system mechanism for Ad-RTS-hIL-12 plus veledimex, the company's controlled human interleukin-12 gene therapy candidate for brain cancer, at the 22nd Annual Meeting and Education Day of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.
X4 Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a CXCR4 inhibitor to improve immune cell trafficking to treat cancer and rare diseases, announced updated results from the phase I part of an ongoing phase I/II study of X4P-001-IO in combination with Inlyta (axitinib) in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Novartis announced positive topline results from the global MONALEESA-7 trial, the second phase III trial of Kisqali (ribociclib) in advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
Genentech said the phase III IMpower150 study met its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survival and demonstrated that the combination of Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and Avastin (bevacizumab) plus chemotherapy (paclitaxel and carboplatin) provided a statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in the risk of disease worsening or death compared to Avastin plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of people with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created the first mathematical model that can predict how a cancer patient will benefit from certain immunotherapies, according to a study published in Nature.
