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Changes to PBS rules offer patients with prostate cancer new hope
By Rachael Babin. Patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer have been given new hope by…
Costly cancer drugs may be cut from UK special funding list
By Sarah Boseley – The Guardian. Reassessment of dozens of medicines, including Kadcyla and Avastin,…
Breast cancer patients face a $93,000 a year bill for extra life
Source: The Herald – Sue Dunlevy. Women whose breast cancer has spread will face a…
A plutocratic proposal
If mega-rich people could buy places on clinical trials, would this help drive forward the…
Sea sponge drug could boost advanced breast cancer survival by five extra months
The cancer drug eribulin, originally developed from sea sponges, could give women with advanced triple…
Exceptional Responders
By Richard Saltus – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Finding genetic causes of dramatic cancer drug responses could…
Aspirin may cut mortality in nonmetastatic prostate cancer
Daily aspirin use, even at low doses, may reduce mortality among men with high-risk non…
Cancer drug discovery system is broken, global summit hears
The global system for discovering new cancer drugs is ‘broken’, and failing to turn dramatic…
Breast cancer drug holds promise in combination therapy for Ewing sarcoma
Ewing sarcoma tumours disappeared and did not return in more than 70 percent of mice…
No Advertising Please: prescribers need evidence, not marketing
By Martin Tattersall, Professor of Cancer Medicine, University of Sydney. The recent launch of the No…