News and Trends 26 Jan 2023 Ibex to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on AI breast cancer product Ibex Medical Analytics has announced an agreement with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, for the development, clinical validation and early adoption of an AI-powered product to aid pathologists with an accurate and reproducible assessment of HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) scoring in breast cancer patients. Scoring of HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) protein expression in breast […] January 26, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 12 Jan 2023 Breast cancer most studied disease area in 2022 Phesi, a global provider of patient-centric data analytics, has released the results of its global analysis of all clinical trials conducted in 2022. The report, which analyzed 80,917 trial records, reveals that breast cancer retained its position as the most-studied disease area, followed by COVID-19. Three of the top five most-studied disease areas fell within oncology, […] January 12, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 9 Jan 2023 ErVaccine raises €4.5M to start therapeutic cancer vaccine trial ErVaccine Technologies, announces the closing of a €4.5 million ($4.8 million) seed round, including dilutive and non-dilutive funds, with Seventure and Bpifrance as part of the Aide au Développement de l’Innovation (ADI) program. ErVaccine is a biotech company and spin-off from the Centre Léon Bérard-Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, France, which develops next-generation […] January 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment Therabest USA. Inc, Therabest Korea and Glycotope GmbH have signed an agreement to assess the clinical development of Therabest’s EiNK (enhanced iPSC-derived NK) cell therapy, TB-100, in combination with Glycotope’s immuno-cytokine, GT-00AxIL15 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. NK (natural killer) cell therapies from various cell sources have demonstrated exciting results in early clinical trials […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 9 Dec 2022 New targeted drug shows benefit against breast cancer in first phase III trial A new type of targeted medicine has shown ‘remarkable’ benefits for patients with advanced breast cancer in a major phase III clinical trial. The drug capivasertib combined with hormone therapy doubled the time it took for cancer to progress in people with advanced forms of the most common type of breast cancer. The findings, presented […] December 9, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 8 Dec 2022 Enhertu’s positive results demonstrate improvement in overall survival Enhertu, an antibody drug conjugate, being jointly developed by Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca, has demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival. Updated results from DESTINY-Breast03 phase 3 trial showed Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) was performing better than trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2 positive unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer previously treated […] December 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 6 Dec 2022 Startup Graegis developing therapies for radiation side-effects Graegis Pharmaceuticals, a startup developing new therapies aimed at preventing the side effects of radiotherapies, is set to complete the regulatory nonclinical package allowing entry in clinical trials. The company, founded in the last quarter of 2021, spent the first year of operations running critical experiments on the new therapies, which will target radiation side […] December 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Nov 2022 Positive results of cancer treatment to be presented at Boston conference Results of a cancer treatment in the treatment of gynecologic and breast cancer are to be presented next week, November 8-12, at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) conference in Boston. Alderaan Biotechnology is a preclinical biotech company that focuses on monoclonal antibody development. It will be making announcements about the most recent development […] November 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 29 Sep 2022 Positive results from study of drug to treat patients with breast cancer published Results from a phase 1b study of a drug to treat patients with androgen receptor positive (AR+) metastatic breast cancer (mBC) in China were published yesterday (September 28). Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited, a clinical stage biotech company has developed Pruxelutamide, an oral new generation AR antagonist which has shown promising activity in heavily pretreated AR+ mBC […] September 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 16 Sep 2022 Ghana first to benefit from Roche partnership with Jhpiego to improve cervical and breast cancer outcomes for women Roche has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics (Jhpiego) to improve cervical and breast cancer outcomes in resource-constrained countries. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer and the cause of the most cancer-related deaths in women. Similarly, cervical cancer is the fourth most […] September 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 12 Sep 2022 Reveal Genomics reveals more HER2DX breast cancer validation data Reveal Genomics, S.L. says it has received more validation of HER2DX, the world’s first specialized genomic test for HER2+ breast cancer. Valentina Guarneri from the University of Padova presented the data at the European Society of Medical Oncology Congress 2022 in Paris, France. The data obtained from the analysis of tumor samples from the PerELISA […] September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 8 Sep 2022 Lutris Pharma radiation trial brings positive results for breast cancer patients Top line results from a clinical trial treating breast cancer patients with radiation dermatitis (RD) have been positive. Lutris Pharma, based in Israel, is a biopharma company focused on improving cancer therapies. It announced its results from the open label part 1 and double blinded part 2 of it phase 1/2 trial yesterday (September 7). […] September 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email