Oncology

Feb 24, 2023

Cancer is the world’s second leading cause of death. Every year, 10 million people die from cancer. Cancer kills 70% of people in low-to-middle-income countries. Cancer is estimated to cost the global economy USD 1.16 trillion per year. Millions of lives could be saved annually by implementing resource-appropriate ...

Dec 16, 2022

Blood cancers have seen tremendous advancements in the past few years owing to the dedication of the researchers who are putting their endless efforts just to bring innovation into the lives of suffering patients. These experimentations and their upshots are always brought to us through various platforms, the Ameri...

Nov 30, 2022

Antibody-drug conjugate (ADCs) is a new emerging class of highly potent pharmaceutical drugs, which is a great combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Over the past couple of decades, antibody-drug conjugates have revolutionized the field of cancer chemotherapy. ADCs are composed of 3 parts: an antibody drug...

Nov 09, 2022

The growth and development in the Digital health technologies, such as mobile health (mHealth) apps, electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), wearable devices, telehealth, and telemedicine, as well as personalized medicine, have immensely transformed the healthcare industry and its marke...

Apr 25, 2022

Bispecific Antibodies (BsAbs) are antibodies that contain two different antigens or have two different epitopes on the same antigen. It is observed for Bispecific Antibodies in clinical trials that the therapeutic effects of these are considerably higher than those of monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs). There are a vast...

Apr 18, 2022

Post Lumakras ‘approval,  Adagrasib’s PDUFA date, Novartis now ready to enter the KRASG12C space Novartis is now heading towards its unique KRASG12C inhibitor in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The company presented the promising preliminary data (Phase Ib) from the KontRASt-01 study e...

Apr 14, 2022

Updates on F-star Therapeutics’ and Akeso’s Bi-specific Antibody targeting LAG-3 and PD-L1 F-star Therapeutics presented the preclinical mechanistic data on the Novel LAG-3 Reduction and Shedding Mechanism with FS118 at AACR 2022. The data demonstrated that the tetravalent and unique structure of FS118 played a ...

Mar 03, 2022

Enhertu with Opdivo exhibited clinical efficacy with an ORR of 36.7% in HER2+ urothelial cancer in Phase Ib study On the second day of ASCO-GU 2022, the rapid abstract session highlighted the results from the DS8201-A-U105 trial (NCT03523572; Active, not recruiting) of Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) with Opdiv...

Mar 02, 2022

Chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, targeted therapies, and antibody-drug conjugates are being used for treating Urothelial Carcinoma(UC) patients and now PARP inhibitors are being studied in UC in the neoadjuvant, first-line, maintenance therapy, and subsequent lines of the setting. It is worth n...

Feb 25, 2022

Phase II study of neoadjuvant cabozantinib in patients with locally advanced non-metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma Based on the findings from the Phase II study (NCT04022343), neoadjuvant cabozantinib was safe and induced a reduction in tumor size in all patients with locally advanced nonmetastatic ccRC...