Advocates across North America are launching a wave of fundraisers and educational campaigns this week as May kicks off Brain Tumor Awareness Month. From high-profile…
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GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
FDA gives fast track edge to ovarian cancer combo therapy now in testing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track status to a combination of lunresertib and zedoresertib — two therapies in development by…
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCBD), a network of community-based oncology practices across Maryland, has launched a program to make CAR…
In adults newly diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia (CBF-AML), genetic mutations present before treatment do not…
PANCREATIC CANCER
Cadonilimab combo boosts survival in advanced pancreatic cancer patients
Akeso’s candidate therapy cadonilimab, in combination with chemotherapy, showed encouraging results as a first-line treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer in the Phase 2 COMPASSION-26 study. The…
The European Commission has approved Ipsen’s oral therapy Ojemda (tovorafenib) to treat certain children with pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG).
GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
Mo-Rez shows strong early responses in ovarian, endometrial cancers
In an early clinical trial, people with certain advanced or treatment-resistant gynecological cancers showed strong responses to the experimental therapy mocertatug rezetecan (Mo-Rez), according…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track status to Opna Bio‘s OPN-6602 as a potential treatment for people…
AML World Awareness Day, an annual effort to educate people about acute myeloid leukemia (AML), is coming up on April 21, and the advocacy…
PANCREATIC CANCER
Daraxonrasib may offer new hope in previously treated pancreatic cancer
Most people with previously-treated metastatic pancreatic cancer lived for at least one year after receiving the oral therapy candidate daraxonrasib in a clinical trial…
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