Archive: 21/02/2018
Precision cancer therapy effective in both children and adults
Three quarters of patients, both adults and children, with a variety of advanced cancers occurring in different sites of the body responded to larotrectinib, a novel therapy that targets a specific genetic mutation. Results ...
Feb 21, 2018
Drug successfully targets cancers with tumor-specific gene mutations
Pediatric and adult cancers with one of three fusion genes responds well to a new drug, larotrectinib, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The drug is designed to target a specific ...
Feb 21, 2018
End-of-life hospital and healthcare use among older adults with Alzheimer's disease
Because people are now living longer and often healthier lives, the rate of some illnesses that are more likely to develop with age has risen. These illnesses include dementia. In fact, the number of us living with dementia ...
Feb 21, 2018