FILE PHOTO: The company logo for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, U.S., April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (This Dec.20 story corrects first paragraph to say the approval came four months ahead of schedule, not three months, after FDA clarification) (Reuters) – The U.S.… Read More »
FDA Approves Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) for Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer, the Most Common Type of Bladder Cancer Print this page TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash., Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to Padcev™ for the… Read More »
Plenty of women enjoy a good hair dye or chemical hair straightener, such as a relaxer. For Black women in particular, however, the regular use of such products may significantly increase breast cancer risk, according to new findings published in the International Journal of Cancer by researchers at the National Institute of Environment Health Sciences… Read More »
A new study published in the American Cancer Society’s journal Cancer reveals that the healthy Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle is linked with reduced cancer risk—specifically, for Black Americans, according to a press release from the journal’s publisher, Wiley. Until now, there has been little research on the effects of this lifestyle on cancer risk among Black… Read More »
Clinical trials on a new treatment expected to improve the survival rates for sufferers of lung and ovarian cancer will begin soon in South Australia. Recruiting patients for the trials will start in early 2020 thanks to a partnership between AusHealth and researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. RAH Cancer Clinical Trials Unit chief Michael… Read More »
A new analysis of 1.4 million adults from the United States, Europe and Asia reveals that adhering to a high-fiber and -yogurt diet is linked to a lower risk of lung cancer, reports VUMC Reporter of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. For the investigation, published in JAMA Oncology, participants were divided into five groups based on… Read More »