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Mashup Score: 11Does FDA Withdrawal of Cancer Drug Show Bigger Changes Needed? - 1 month(s) ago
The recent withdrawal a cancer drug that had been granted accelerated approval by the FDA may be illustrative of concerns raised by some critics.
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Mashup Score: 8Doc Debates CEO as Calls to End MOC Intensify - 8 month(s) ago
Aaron Goodman, MD, recently debated the CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine about whether Maintenance of Certification should continue.
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Mashup Score: 0Oncologists Wary of Fallout From Proposed Blood Biopsy Coverage Bill - 8 month(s) ago
Oncologists may soon face increased workloads if blood biopsy insurance coverage expands, as PCPs are likely to increasingly refer patients with unclear results.
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Mashup Score: 0Open-Label Placebo Pill Improves Cancer-Related Fatigue - 2 year(s) ago
Patients with advanced cancer who received an open-label placebo pill reported greater improvements in cancer-related fatigue than those who were put on a waitlist to get the placebo.
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Dr. Gail Eckhardt, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Women Who Conquer Cancer Award recipient, discusses the importance of allowing mentees to pivot in their careers, the inherent bias when it comes to women in oncology leadership, and ways to maintain a work/life balance.
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Mashup Score: 0What’s Next for Immuno-Oncology? Jedd D. Wolchok Discusses - 2 year(s) ago
Robert Figlin, MD, and David Karnofsky Award recipient Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD, discuss the future of immunotherapy, including new directions in combination therapy, how to think about side effects of adjuvant therapy, and the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration.
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(BioPharma Dive) May 26, 2022 – Mirati Therapeutics hopes to later this year win U.S. approval of only the second drug able to target tumors spurred by mutations in an elusive gene called KRAS.
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Mashup Score: 2
(BMS) May 16, 2022 – Bristol Myers Squibb today announced the Phase 3 CheckMate -901 trial, comparing Opdivo (nivolumab) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) to standard-of-care chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with untreated unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, did not meet the primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) in patients whose tumor cells express PD-L1 ≥1% at final…
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Mashup Score: 0Positive Patient-Reported Outcomes Data Expand On The Efficacy Benefits Of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan And Pembrolizumab - 2 year(s) ago
(ESMO Breast Cancer 2022) May 3, 2022 – Two studies show that quality of life was maintained or improved with new treatments for advanced breast cancer.
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Neil O’Brien, PhD, of UCLA, discusses pre-clinical results showing that tucatinib, a novel HER2 inhibitor, shows much higher selectivity than other HER2 inhibitors, and tucatinib and trastuzumab together showed strong inhibition of HER2 signaling in cancer cells.
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