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Investor delighted to support cancer drug project
2015-07-23 14:13:36| Biotech - Topix.net
FUND manager Woodford Investment Management, based in Oxford, is one of several new investors in Immunocure as a result of the biotechnology firm's A 205m private financing round. The company said it would use the proceeds to accelerate its pipeline of biological drugs, which it calls ImmTACs, and which the biotech firm believes have the potential to treat solid cancer tumours.
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Bristol-Myers' Opdivo found effective in kidney cancer
2015-07-20 17:36:34| Biotech - Topix.net
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said a late-stage trial of its drug, Opdivo, was stopped early after the immunotherapy was found to be effective in patients with the most common form of kidney cancer. The U.S. drugmaker said on Monday the study, Checkmate-025, was stopped early after an independent data monitoring committee concluded that Opdivo provided a survival advantage over the cancer drug, everolimus, among patients with advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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Leading Danish Cancer Center First in Europe to Use Varian's Calypso Transponders for Liver Cancer Patients
2015-07-20 12:31:12| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
AARHUS, Denmark Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark has treated two liver cancer patients with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) using Calypso 'GPS for the Body' transponders from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) for real-time monitoring during the treatment. A 77-year-old man and a woman, aged 76, both...
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Toledo Speedway Hosts ROC Out Cancer Benefit Concert Sunday
2015-07-15 05:35:20| Agriculture - Topix.net
Toledo Speedway will host the ROC Out Against Cancer Benefit Concert and Motorcycle, Truck and Classic Car Run this Sunday, July 19. Proceeds from the day will go to the Nightingales Harvest Cancer Family Pantry and Resource Center of Toledo. The track, located at the I-75/Alexis Road exit on Benore Road, will be the site of the starting point for the vehicle registration, beginning at 9 a.m. through 9:45 a.m. Sunday.
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Monsanto says 'expert panel' to review WHO finding on cancer link to herbicide
2015-07-15 00:16:34| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monsanto Co, maker of one of the world's most widely used herbicides Roundup, said Tuesday that a panel of scientific experts will review the findings of a World Health Organization cancer research unit that found the key ingredient in Roundup is "probably carcinogenic to humans." The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer's said in March that it came to the conclusion that the key ingredient known as glyphosate was probably cancer-causing after reviewing a range of scientific literature.
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