Researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have now identified a new treatment that promises to help cancer patients with bone marrow transplants manage side effects better than current standard therapies, making the treatment more effective and safer.
"Patient"
-
-
Apparatus
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status To Two New Therapies In a Row, And These Two Groups Of Patients Are Expected To Benefit!
Recently, the US FDA has granted orphan drug status to two new therapeutics in a row. One is a small molecule inhibitor, PCLX-001, for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia; the other is a T-cell therapy, ET140203, for the treatment of hepatoblastoma. Both therapies are currently in relevant trials.
-
Medical
Study Shows Drug Halves Recurrence Rate In Patients With Early-Stage EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer!
A new clinical trial update shows that oxitinib (known as Teresa, or 9291) nearly doubled disease-free survival and halved post-operative recurrence rates in lung cancer patients carrying an early stage EGFR mutation!
-
For patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma, the CAR-T cell therapy Ide-cel resulted in a two-fold increase in the average length of time that patients' tumours did not progress compared to standard treatment, with 71% of patients experiencing substantial tumour regression and 39% experiencing complete tumour disappearance.
-
With more and more new cutting-edge drugs emerging, the standard treatment paradigm for breast cancer is now rapidly changing, and the future is looking brighter for patients.
-
Apparatus
Significantly Longer Survival In Refractory Breast Cancer With The Addition Of Eganelisib To Standard Treatment!
Data from a trial show that adding the new drug Eganelisib to standard treatment significantly improves the length of survival for patients with triple-negative breast cancer whose disease remains unexacerbated. Patients benefited regardless of their PD-L1 status.
-
The trial is testing the effectiveness of two chemotherapy drugs, oxaliplatin and gemcitabine, in combination with radiotherapy, an approach that has been used to treat other aggressive tumours
-
Medical
K-Drug Approved For Adjuvant Treatment Of Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Significantly Extending Cancer-Free Survival Of Patients!
The US FDA has approved pablizumab (Keytruda) as an adjuvant treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. In the trial, pablizumab (Keytruda) significantly prolonged cancer-free survival in patients compared to placebo.
-
Medical
UK Launches First Clinical Trial Of Proton Beam Therapy For Breast Cancer To Help Patients Reduce The Risk Of Heart Problems Caused By Radiotherapy
The clinical trial (PARABLE) will take place at 22 sites across the UK and is planned to recruit 192 patients at higher risk of developing heart problems. the PARABLE trial is led by researchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) UK, and is managed by the Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit, funded by Cancer Research UK, at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). was conducted.
-
Biopharmaceutical company Airway has announced that the first patient will be administered AT-100 (rhSP-D) in a phase 1b randomised trial to prevent the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in very preterm infants. The novel prophylactic AT-100 reduces the incidence and severity of the severe respiratory disease BPD and may improve the prognosis of very preterm infants.