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Daiichi Sankyo soars on $22bn Merck cancer drugs deal
Shares in Japan's Daiichi Sankyo soared on Friday after the pharma group announced a major cancer drug deal with US giant Merck worth up to $22 billion.
Oct 20, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Drug mechanism opens door for new anti-cancer immunotherapies
Researchers have revealed a new mechanism of targeted drug treatment used against chronic lymphocytic leukemia, through the promotion of immune cell function, that could be exploited using new anti-cancer immunotherapies.
Oct 19, 2023
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EU clears Pfizer's $43 bn takeover of biotech firm Seagen
The EU said Thursday it had given the green light for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's $43-billion acquisition of biotech firm Seagen, specializing in innovative cancer treatment.
Oct 19, 2023
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Medical research
CAR T-cell therapy effective in patients with blood cancer regardless of race: Study
Patients with multiple myeloma treated with idecabtagene vicleucel, known as "ide-cel," a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, had no difference in overall survival outcomes regardless of race and ethnicity, according ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Medical research
Promising new options for treating aggressive prostate cancer
Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have identified two promising new treatment options for men with recurrent prostate cancer—both of which helped patients live longer without their disease progressing than the current standard ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Health
FDA proposes ban on formaldehyde in hair straighteners over health dangers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a ban on the use of formaldehyde in hair relaxers over concerns about its link to respiratory problems and certain cancers.
Oct 18, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Experimental drugs could help lung cancer treatment research enter a new era
More people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are likely to benefit from new drugs that target molecular alterations in tumor cells, with less need for chemotherapy, following results of multiple clinical trials reported ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Nearly half of oncology drugs approved since 1998 are precision therapies
Of the 198 new oncology drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1998 and 2022, approximately 43% were precision oncology therapies, the use of which is guided by biomarker testing.
Oct 18, 2023
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Genetics
Genetic risk scores not useful in predicting disease, study argues
Polygenic risk scores, which estimate a person's disease risk based on thousands or millions of common genetic variants, perform poorly in screening and prediction of common diseases such as heart disease, according to a ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Human lung chip leveraged to faithfully model radiation-induced lung injury
The lung is one of the tissues most sensitive to radiation in the human body. People exposed to high radiation doses following nuclear incidents develop radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), which affects the function of ...
Oct 17, 2023
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