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Antibody-immunotherapy treatment shows benefit in serious endometrial cancer

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

The novel combination cancer therapy facilitated “exceptional” responses in some patients enrolled in a Phase II study for endometrial cancer.

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Immunotherapy drug achieves trial-first in fifty years

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

Major findings from a Phase III trial show that using immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab post-surgery extended survival and delayed disease recurrence in kidney cancer.

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Novel small molecule drug facilitates leukaemia remission

15 March 2023 | By Catherine Eckford (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Leukaemia patients went into remission when given a novel drug containing a small molecule that inhibits menin and MLL1 interaction, a study showed.

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Mobocertinib approved as first oral therapy for EGFR Exon20+ NSCLC

16 September 2021 | By Anna Begley (European Pharmaceutical Review)

FDA approves mobocertinib as the first oral therapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR Exon20 insertion mutations.

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Ide-cel provides lasting remissions in multiply-relapsed myeloma

25 February 2021 | By Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review)

BMS and bluebird bio have applied to the FDA for approval of ide-cel as a standard therapy for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma based on positive Phase II trial results.

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COVID’s impact on cancer therapeutics: clinical trial and treatment disruptions

19 February 2021 | By Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review)

In this article, European Pharmaceutical Review’s Hannah Balfour discusses how COVID-19 has impacted the pharma industry with regard to cancer clinical trial and treatment disruptions.

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Two new developments in kidney cancer treatments

15 February 2021 | By Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Studies suggest there are better treatment options than sunitinib for kidney cancers; cabozantinib in metastatic papillary kidney cancer and lenvatinib/pembrolizumab for renal cell carcinoma.

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Axi-cel highly effective in patients with advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma, finds Phase II trial

7 December 2020 | By Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Investigators report 76 percent of trial participants had a complete response to axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), despite being resistant to other therapies.

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Blood test shows potential for early detection of lung cancer

4 June 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)

A test that analyses free-floating DNA in the blood may be able to detect early-stage lung cancer...

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Cell-weighing method may predict how drugs will affect cancer cells

20 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Cell-weighing technique may predict which therapies a patient is most sensitive or resistant to...

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