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STAT+: Oncologists more likely to provide low-value care after receiving pharma money, study finds

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The other scenario involved treatments that were more expensive, but no more effective than alternatives, such as the Abraxane chemotherapy. The researchers examined Medicare beneficiaries who were diagnosed with cancer and received treatment from 2014 through 2019.

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STAT+: An exit interview with Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Giovanni Caforio

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But Bristol stumbled in 2016 when its immunotherapy Opdivo failed to help patients with non-small cell cancer more than chemotherapy. In 2019, Caforio tried to flip the script, buying the biotech Celgene for $74 billion. STAT recently sat down with Caforio, 59, to look back on what went wrong and right with his tenure.

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‘What a gift to give’: For a woman struggling with infertility, a sister’s unexpected offer of surrogacy brings new hope

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After the brain tumor diagnosis in 2016, Gatton would undergo two brain surgeries, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, followed by an embryo transfer that failed. But after all that, another embryo transfer had worked, and in fall 2019, Gatton was expecting. Read the rest…

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STAT+: There’s a bill well-suited for drug shortage reforms, but Congress isn’t interested

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Although not new, drug shortages are now a crisis, with an increasing number of reports about cancer doctors having to ration chemotherapies and other drugs. At the request of a large bipartisan group of lawmakers, a task force chaired by the Food and Drug Administration in 2019 reported on the root causes of drug shortages.

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Dr. Reddy’s launches Toripalimab under the brand name Zytorvi in India

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The standard of care for RM-NPC in India before Toripalimab was chemotherapy (gemcitabine and cisplatin). Additionally, Toripalimab has also been approved as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with recurrent unresectable or metastatic NPC with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy. The Lancet.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Medicaid coverage of obesity drugs, a death in a sickle cell trial, and more

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Beam said the patient succumbed to respiratory failure, deemed to be “likely caused” by a regimen of chemotherapy required to prepare the patient for BEAM-101, a treatment that uses the company’s new, more precise form of CRISPR gene editing called base editing. The

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AZ/Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu gets second US cancer indication

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This latest indication adds to Enhertu first approval at the end of 2019 for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer after two or more HER2-targeted regimens. A pre-specified interim analysis showed patients treated with Enhertu had a 41% reduction in the risk of death versus patients treated with chemotherapy with a median OS of 12.5