Clifton Leaf is a cancer survivor. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Fortune magazine. And he has long argued that we may not be making the most astute decisions about how we are trying to find “the best” and “the rightest” ways to diagnose, treat, and manage cancer. … READ MORE …
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A poster presented at the ESMO meeting in Munich has just reported data from an unplanned, preliminary analysis of data from the first 85 patients (out of a scheduled total of 150 patients) enrolled in the TRITON 2 trial of the PARP inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca) … READ MORE …
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The major, Switzerland-based, global pharmaceutical company Novartis has just agreed to acquire Endocyte — the developer of both Lu-177- PSMA-617 and Ac-225-PSMA-617, which are in clinical trials for the treatment of advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper by an international group of investigators has given us some further insight in to the roles of immunotherapeutic agents in the treatment of at least a subset of men with advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A media release issued on Tuesday this week by a usually highly respected medical center in the Los Angeles area is misleadingly entitled, “Hormone therapy can make prostate cancer worse, study finds”. … READ MORE …
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