The plan is to create new “interventions" using "field of injury" technology to catch molecular changes in the lining of the respiratory tract, which can indicate cancer or cancer-related changes in the lung.
The immunotherapy drug was approved for lung cancer patients with no chance for surgery whose cancer had not yet spread to other parts of the body.
US regulators are undertaking a priority review of Roche unit Genentech’s PD-L1 inhibitor Tecentriq, in combination with Avastin and standard chemotherapy for some patients with lung cancer.
SBRI Healthcare alumni and Cambridge-based Owlstone Medical has announced that it has raised $15 million (£11 million) to drive the global commercialisation of its Breath Biopsy® platform.
Artificial intelligence is gradually being adopted by health services to assist medics with the diagnosis of serious diseases. In one new development, scientists in Oxford, U.K. have launched an AI system for heart disease.
Blocking the motion of a key protein frees oxygen to injury iron-dependent proteins in lung and breast cancer cells, slowing their enlargement and making them more straightforward to kill.
An estimated 300 million Chinese people are smokers. China has also a serious issue with hazardous air pollution. Here concentrations of small, breathable particles (PM2.5) invariably exceeding 300 micrograms per cubic meter in the industrialized northern regions.
US regulators have accepted an application by AstraZeneca and MedImmune to expand the scope of Imfinzi (durvalumab) to include patients with a certain form of lung cancer.
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