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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…
Australian doctors to ban drug company reps from visiting surgeries
By Melissa Davey – The Guardian. GPs say the No Advertising Please campaign will help…
Mutations caused patient’s dramatic response to everolimus
The DNA of a woman whose lethal thyroid cancer unexpectedly “melted away” for 18 months has revealed…
Novartis works with Bristol-Myers Squibb to test lung cancer drugs
Swiss pharma group Novartis AG said on Monday it would work with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co…
Nine-valent HPV vaccine may prevent nearly 90 percent of cervical cancers
Because nine human papillomavirus (HPV) subtypes were found to cause the majority of cervical precancers,…