On November 4, 2022, the U.S. FDA has approved the marketing of mivituximab soratansine (Elahere), a cutting-edge antibody-coupled drug targeting folate receptor alpha (FRα), for the treatment of adult patients with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who have received one to three systemic treatment regimens and are folate receptor alpha (FRα)-positive and platinum-resistant.
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Medical
Approved! With Just One Oral Dose Per Day, This Type Of Breast Cancer Patient Gets a New Drug
The US FDA has approved Elacestrant, the first oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer who are estrogen receptor positive, HER2 negative and have an ESR1 mutation. Results of the trial showed that patients treated with Elacestrant had a 45% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death.
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Study Shows That a Blood Pressure Drug Combined With Radiotherapy Improves Outcomes In Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is known to be a highly fatal and incurable type of cancer known as the "king of cancers". Currently, the only possible cure for pancreatic cancer is the complete surgical removal of the tumour tissue. Once the cancer has spread beyond the pancreatic organ, the patient's treatment options are very limited.
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Apparatus
Nature Medicine publishes results of H-drug combined with chemotherapy for first-line treatment of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
H-Drugs in the leading international journal again!
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With more and more new cutting-edge drugs emerging, the standard treatment paradigm for breast cancer is now rapidly changing, and the future is looking brighter for patients.
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New Drug For IDH1 Mutation/Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukaemia With Good Complete Remission Rates And Manageable Toxicity
The results of a new study recently showed that Olutasidenib monotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukaemia carrying the IDH1 mutation elicited high rates of complete remission with manageable toxicity.
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Immune And Astrazeneca Launch Strategic Research Collaboration To Accelerate Drug Target Discovery
The collaboration aims to improve the efficiency of the drug discovery pipeline by leveraging industry-leading capabilities to identify genetic variants that cause human disease.
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Disease
Long-Term Antihypertensive Drugs Hurt Liver And Kidneys? Doctors: No Medication Is More Risky!
Many elderly people have high blood pressure themselves, but refuse to stick to their antihypertensive medication, thinking that taking it for a long time will have many side effects.
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Specialising in RNA 3D structure prediction, Atomic AI wants to launch an RNA version of AlphaFold to accelerate drug discovery!
The impact of AlphaFold on protein structure prediction has been transformative.
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The US FDA has accelerated the approval of the new drug Pirtobrutinib for the treatment of relapsed or refractory set of cell lymphomas. The drug led to substantial tumour disappearance in 50% of patients, with 13% of them having complete tumour disappearance.