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Volume 13 Issue 5

Considerations for Clinical Trial Design Involving Radiotherapy

Radiation therapy has been used for many years as an effective form of treatment against many cancer types, yet it remains less well researched and utilised than othe...
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Regional News

ESMO: Bristol Myers’ Opdivo-Yervoy, Pfizer-Merck KGaA’s Bavencio hit walls in head and neck cancer

Suffering two separate clinical trial blows, Bristol Myers Squibb and a collaboration between Merck KGaA and Pfizer learned the hard way that head and neck cancer is ...
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CDC enlists comedian to embrace the awkwardness of gynecology visits—and encourage women to go

Going to the gynaecologist can be embarrassing, weird and uncomfortable, but thanks to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web series with comedian...
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Europe

PROSTATE CANCER DRUG BYPRODUCT CAN FUEL CANCER CELLS, UNITED STATES-BASED RESEARCHERS FIND

A genetic anomaly in certain men with prostate cancer may impact their response to common drugs used to treat the disease, according to new research in the United Sta...
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Atlantic Health System enrolling patients in pancreatic cancer clinical trials

Angela Alistar, M.D., director of GI medical oncology at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center of Morristown Medical Center,...
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Compugen Advancing Cancer Immunotherapies to Clinical Trials

Compugen today said clinical trials will be launched for a pair of its cancer immunotherapy candidates targeting advanced solid tumors—its lead immuno-oncology progra...
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Tecentriq extends streak with win in breast cancer trial

Roche's checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq helped extend progression-free survival in a Phase 3 study of patients with a hard-to-treat form of metastatic breast cancer...
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Clinical trial targets metastatic colorectal cancer with new combination therapy

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is offering a clinical trial targeting an advanced form of colorectal cancer with a combination vaccine/immunotherapy drug trea...
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Cancer Research UK tests first of its kind vaccine to treat lung cancer

 A first of its kind treatment vaccine has moved into a phase I clinical trial for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), under a collaboration agreement...
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Doctors Call Off Clinical Trial After Experimental Cancer Treatment Has Tragic Results

 A recent clinical trial attempting to rid three patients of an uncommon type of blood cancer has gone tragically wrong. Rather than fighting the cancer that was rava...
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