Cervical cancer

Jan 12, 2022

In the year 2000, the first-ever Antibody-drug Conjugate (ADC) - Mylotarg, was launched by Pfizer and was considered a miracle in cancer treatment. And it appeared like there was no looking back for these antibody-drug conjugates. But it took almost another 11 years for the next ADC to launch in the market - Adectr...

Mar 16, 2021

Merck, Gilead  to co-develop combined HIV treatments Merck and Gilead have announced a collaboration to investigate Gilead’s investigational capsid inhibitor, lenacapavir, and Merck’s investigational nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitor, islatravir, into a two-drug regimen.  Both...

Jul 01, 2020

Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually lea...

Jan 21, 2019

Ladies, January is the month of raising awareness about cervical cancer. In the US, 250000 women are affected every year. One can refrain from the cancer by avoiding human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is sexually transmitted. We can eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem through intensified vaccinati...

Jan 25, 2017

Cervical cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. A recent publication in nature reported the extensive molecular characterization of 228 primary cervical cancers, and has been dubbed as the largest comprehensive genomic study of cervical cancer to date. The authors observed strik...