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Radiopharmaceutical therapy delivers promising meningioma survival rates

30 September 2024 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

The Phase II clinical trial is the first completed prospective trial for refractory meningiomas with a tumour growth rate of 15 percent or more over six months.

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NICE recommends Novartis precision brain cancer treatment

24 April 2024 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

An “innovative, life-extending treatment” for BRAF V600E mutation-positive glioma has been recommended for certain young people on the NHS.

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Intratumoural viral delivery improves glioblastoma survival

17 May 2023 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

“Injecting a virus into a patient’s brain tumour” combined with immunotherapy improved glioblastoma survival outcomes in a clinical trial.

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Novel device opens blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy

3 May 2023 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

A novel ultrasound technique opened the blood-brain barrier to successfully deliver chemotherapy to glioblastoma patients in a first-in-human trial.

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$38 million will fund rare disease research over four-year period

19 October 2022 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Research for rare diseases including ALS will be supported over the next four years by $38 million in FDA funding.

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Nanoparticle gene therapy drug delivery for paediatric brain cancer tested in mice

9 January 2020 | By Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review)

A study has shown that PBAE nanoparticles could replace viral vectors in gene therapies and provide a safe treatment option for paediatric brain cancer patients.

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Neoantigen-based immunotherapy targets misshapen protein in DIPG

4 December 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer may benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against an abnormally shaped protein found on cancer cells...

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Arsenic identified as a potential treatment for brain cancer

18 October 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Arsenic trioxide could extend the survival of glioblastoma patients by three to four times the historic median...

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FDA approves first biosimilar for the treatment of cancer

15 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Mvasi, a biosimilar to the cancer drug Avastin, is approved for certain colorectal, lung, brain, kidney and cervical cancers…

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Roche’s Avastin approved in Japan for treatment of the most aggressive form of brain cancer

17 June 2013 | By Roche

First approval of Avastin for the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma...

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