Tag: Cancer
Explaining bone marrow, its cancer and treatment!
Dr Dinesh Bhurani, Director, Hemato-Oncology and BMT, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center, New Delhi explains all the basics about bone marrow, its cancer and the kind of treatment that would work best in the patients...…………….
Breast cancer patients likely to benefit under a new precision medicine...
The TAILORx study, the largest ever breast cancer treatment trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June, has concluded that about 70 percent of early-stage breast cancer patients could avoid agony of chemotherapy by...…………………..
IISER-Bhopal scientists develop new method to synthesize bio-conjugates
The researchers at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, have now demonstrated that it was possible to synthesize an effective conjugate with lysine without much of a problem....................
Biocon’s indigenous biologic for head & neck cancer a viable solution,...
At a panel discussion held by the Biocon at New Delhi, the leading oncologists deliberated on the results of a large scale clinical study on novel biologic, BioMab EGFR (Nimotuzumab) for head and neck cancer and its impact as a targeted therapy on patient outcomes
Regulatory support, big pharma interest will boost precision medicine for cancer
The leading market analysis firm, GlobalData has predicted that the precision medicine approaches for for tumor agnostic development will accelerate due to the enhanced regulatory support and interest from big pharmaceutical players in the market...………..
Diabetes raises risk of cancer, with women at even greater likelihood:...
The findings published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) highlight the need for more research into the role diabetes plays in developing cancer...………….
Make cancer treatment affordable: Vice President
The Vice President, Mr M Venkaiah Naidu asked doctors to establish a regular communication with the patients, especially in a dreaded disease like cancer..............
AstraZeneca receives marketing permission for Durvalumab (ImfinziTM) in India
Durvalumab is the only immunotherapy approved for patients with unresectable Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) and was granted US FDA ‘breakthrough therapy’ designation on July 31, 2017.....................
US FDA approves Mylan & Biocon’s biosimilar, Fulphila
Second FDA-approved biosimilar through the Mylan-Biocon collaboration,, Fulphila is expected to be the first biosimilar pegfilgrastim available in the U.S. to help patients with nonmyeloid cancers reduce the risk of infection...............
Claims for breast cancer in the age group of 35 to...
Among all breast ailments, breast cancer accounts for the highest percentage of claims between FY 2015-16 and FY 2017-18.............