je.st
news
Tag: cancer
Ventana, Halozyme partner to develop companion diagnostic assay for cancer treatment
2015-05-31 03:08:15| Biotech - Topix.net
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. and Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. , a member of the Roche Group, announced today a global agreement to collaborate on the development of, and for Ventana to ultimately commercialize, a companion diagnostic assay for use with Halozyme's investigational new drug, PEGPH20. The Ventana assay will be used to identify high levels of hyaluronan .
Tags: partner
treatment
develop
cancer
Clovis Oncology's Phase 2 Studies of Rucaparib in Ovarian Cancer...
2015-05-30 21:49:00| Logistics - Topix.net
Clovis Oncology today announced updated Phase 2 results from two ongoing clinical studies with rucaparib: ARIEL2 and Study 10. Rucaparib is the Company's investigational oral, potent, small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2 being developed for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer, specifically in patients with BRCA mutations and other DNA repair deficiencies beyond BRCA, commonly referred to as "BRCA-like." Updated data from the ARIEL2 study in 204 patients with advanced ovarian cancer are being presented Monday in an oral presentation by Professor Iain McNeish at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago.
Tags: studies
phase
cancer
ovarian
Pfizer's Ibrance drug slows progression of breast cancer
2015-05-30 19:03:57| Biotech - Topix.net
CHICAGO: A Phase III trial of Pfizer Inc's drug Ibrance showed that, in combination with hormone therapy, the drug more than doubled the duration of disease control for women with the most common type of breast cancer. At the time of an interim analysis, patients given Ibrance in combination with AstraZeneca Plc's Faslodex , a widely used treatment to block estrogen, lived an average of 9.2 months before their cancer worsened.
Tags: drug
cancer
breast
progression
Doctor with cancer raises alarm about medical device
2015-05-30 14:52:20| Biotech - Topix.net
Is the FDA doing enough to protect patients from potentially dangerous medical devices? Two Philadelphia area doctors say no. They're fighting to prevent more tragedies, while living through their own medical nightmare.
Tags: medical
device
cancer
doctor
Softball team raising money for breast cancer patient
2015-05-30 06:42:18| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
What would you do for a close friend in need? For her best friend Cheryl Draleau, Shirley Weaver Hanson started a softball team.  Draleau, a lifelong Clinton resident and Nypro employee for 28 years, has stage 4 breast cancer, which has spread to the bone.
Tags: money
team
cancer
patient
Sites : [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] next »