Grail, the cancer detection start-up backed by tech giants Alphabet and Amazon, is already seeking new funding, mere months after it closed a $900 million round in March. The company had previously raised $100 million in 2016.
British scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer.
Androgen-deprivation therapy, which is a common treatment for prostate cancer, has been tentatively linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. A new study solidifies these concerns.
Owlstone Medical and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) have begun a clinical trial designed to identify biomarkers of cancer in breath samples. The goal is to find volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that indicate the presence of cancer, enabling physicians to make quick, noninvasive diagnoses.
On Sunday, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting, Novartis revealed the final outcome, showing that among patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, adding Kisqali to fulvestrant kept the disease away for eight months longer than fulvestrant alone.
Cost regulators for NHS treatments in England and Wales are sticking with their position that Eisai’s Halaven should not be funded by the NHS as a second-line of attack against a certain form of breast cancer.
Novartis’ CDK4/6 inhibitor Kisqali has picked up Breakthrough status in the US as an initial endocrine-based treatment in certain patients with breast cancer.
Analysts and investors think Perjeta’s end-of-the-year indication may not be as lucrative as they once hoped. The FDA green-lighted the drug in tandem with giant Herceptin and chemo for HER2-positive, post-surgery breast cancer patients with a high risk of recurrence. Patients should receive up to 18 cycles of the regimen over the course of one year, according to the indication.
Novartis announced positive topline results from the global MONALEESA-7 trial, the second Phase III trial of Kisqali® (ribociclib) in advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The MONALEESA-7 trial met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in premenopausal women with hormone-receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative (HR+/HER2-) advanced breast cancer.
EU regulators are permitting the use of AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug Faslodex at an earlier stage of the treatment pathway in patients with certain forms of the disease.
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