Scientists from MIT designed a microfluidic device to capture and count circulating plasma cells in small samples of blood. This technique can only be carried out through routine blood drawing, which is expected to reduce the pain of patients' myeloma testing.
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What Are The Diets And Contraindications For Liver Cancer Patients? How Can Liver Cancer Be Prevented?
We all know that we need to pay attention to our diet after suffering from a disease, because improper diet will affect the recovery of the disease and the health of the patient.
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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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Bile duct cancer is a rare but highly malignant tumour that occurs in the human bile duct system and has long had a poor prognosis. Now, researchers at University College London and University College London Hospitals, in an international multi-centre trial, have identified potentially good treatments that may radically improve the lives of some patients with bile duct cancer.
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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.
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Innovative Therapy Zolbetuximab In Combination With Chemotherapy Significantly Improves Survival Of Gastric Cancer Patients!
New research confirms that the innovative treatment Zolbetuximab, in combination with chemotherapy, is highly effective in the treatment of gastric cancer, especially in advanced stages, and is expected to be a potential new treatment for patients with gastric cancer.
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New Targeted Drug For Leukaemia Approved, 35% Of Patients' Cancer Cells Disappear Completely!
The US FDA has approved a new leukaemia drug, Olutasidenib, which has been shown to be effective and has a controlled safety profile, resulting in the complete disappearance of cancer cells in 35% of patients enrolled, with efficacy lasting up to 25.9 months.
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Gout is an ancient disease. As early as the Babylonian period, gout was one of the most prevalent diseases at that time. It was also called "the disease of kings" and "the disease of kings" because of its frequent occurrence in the court and among the dignitaries.
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Significant Improvement In Survival For Pancreatic Cancer Patients! A first-Line NALIRIFOX Regimen To Look Forward To!
As medicine continues to advance, there are many good drugs and options to fight cancer. Just recently, a study showed that the NALIRIFOX regimen significantly improved the overall survival of patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who had not received previous treatment.
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Study Shows Drug Halves Recurrence Rate In Patients With Early-Stage EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer!
A new clinical trial update shows that oxitinib (known as Teresa, or 9291) nearly doubled disease-free survival and halved post-operative recurrence rates in lung cancer patients carrying an early stage EGFR mutation!