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Here’s a new data point for cancer patients to consider: ‘time toxicity’

STAT

When Jeannette Cleland learned earlier this year that she could get chemotherapy at home, after dropping a particularly toxic medication, it seemed like good news. But then Cleland, a 44-year-old Minneapolis event planner who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, did the math. Read the rest…

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Imfinzi with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Demonstrates Significant Benefit in Event-Free Survival Treating Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

PharmExec

FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee acknowledged that Imfinzi met its primary endpoint of event-free survival in the treatment of resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

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Chemotherapy and Compounding – What You NEED to Know

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Epicur Pharma’s Advisory Council member Ann Donoghue, DVM, MS shares her personal perspective on the important relationship between veterinary oncology and compounded medications used in chemotherapy treatments. Many of the presentations discussed the chemotherapies available to treat dogs.

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Merck discontinues Phase 3 trial for lung cancer combo drug

Express Pharma

Additionally, when compared to patients in the control arm, patients in the vibostolimab and pembrolizumab fixed-dose combination arm experienced a higher rate of adverse events (AEs) and immune-related AEs. At a pre-planned analysis, data showed that the primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) met the pre-specified futility criteria.

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NICE backs use of MSD’s KEYTRUDA for triple-negative breast cancer

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the use of KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) as an option with chemotherapy for neoadjuvant, and alone as adjuvant treatment after surgery, for adults with early TNBC, at high risk of recurrence, or locally advanced TNBC. After a median follow-up of 39.1

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$5 billion bispecific antibody pharma collaboration

European Pharmaceutical Review

In addition, A Phase III trial of Ivonescimab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutated advanced non-squamous NSCLC that failed in prior epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) therapy is ongoing. percent and a median progression-free survival (mPFS) of 8.2

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Immunomedics wows ESMO with breast cancer data reveal

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Data from the phase 3 ASCENT study showed Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan) significantly extended overall survival (OS) and improved overall response rate (ORR) and clinical benefit rate (CBR), compared with standard chemotherapy in TNBC patients with brain metastases treated with at least two therapies. in the chemotherapy arm.