Treatment with pembrolizumab — an immune-modulating therapy sold for some cancers under the brand name Keytruda — improved survival among people with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer…
Gynecological cancer
The use of testosterone as part of gender-affirming care does not increase the risk of gynecological cancers in transgender men or gender-diverse people, a study…
Thursday is World Ovarian Cancer Day, an annual effort to raise awareness about ovarian cancer, the second most common type of gynecological cancer.
Tepylute (thiotepa), a chemotherapy medication from Shorla Oncology that was approved last year for treating certain breast and ovarian cancers, has launched in the…
Offering genetic testing at the provider’s office at the time of diagnosis effectively increased the number of people with gynecological cancers who underwent testing. That’s…
An experimental immunotherapy known as MOv18 IgE showed promise in overcoming the immune suppression caused by ovarian cancer cells, potentially enabling the immune system…
Corcept Therapeutics is launching a Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of relacorilant as a triple combination treatment — with…
Adding relacorilant to standard chemotherapy was shown to extend survival among people with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, meeting the primary endpoint, or goal, of a…
Interim data from a Phase 3 trial failed to show that a combination of nemvaleukin, an experimental immune-modulating therapy, and Keytruda (pembrolizumab) could outperform standard…
Treatment with AbbVie’s Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine) reduced the risk of death by 32% in women with difficult-to-treat epithelial ovarian cancer over standard chemotherapy. That’s according…
