STAT
OCTOBER 25, 2023
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.
STAT
OCTOBER 5, 2022
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
OCTOBER 30, 2023
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.
STAT
JULY 13, 2023
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.
Express Pharma
MARCH 31, 2025
This is different from traditional chemotherapy which is usually given orally and intravenously. Researchers completed phase 1 clinical trials demonstrating safety and tolerance to NEO100 in 2019.
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 8, 2021
China’s Shanghai Henlius Biotech says its experimental PD-1 inhibitor serplulimab has extended survival when added to chemotherapy in a phase 3 trial as first-line therapy for extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), setting up regulatory filings.
Big Molecule Watch
MAY 22, 2023
According to the press release, FYLNETRA—Amneal’s third biosimilar launch in the United States since late last year—is used to treat neutropenia (low neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that fights infection) which is commonly experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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