Cancer

A survey was done in which thousands of advanced cancers indicated a way to detect those that respond to revolutionary therapies that unleash an immune response against tumours. However, the results show difficulty level to translate an approach into a reliable clinical test. The findings are the latest evidence to...

In what could be regarded as a first of its kind, researchers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom have recently reported that they created two machine learning models that are able to precisely predict the severity of three common symptoms ...

In a groundbreaking clinical trial, a 66-year-old Ohio woman became the first patient to become cancer free through the CAR T Cell Therapy. In August this year, Denise Kennan had participated in the cancer treatment trial at the Seidman Cancer Center in University Hospitals of Cleveland; following which 30 days late...

Gold nanoparticles may soon turn out to be a Prostate cancer treatment option. Apparently, there are certain risks associated with conventional cancer treatments such as uncontrolled bleeding, fatal blood clots and dangerous reactions to the anaesthetic, among others. To relieve patients from such risks, a new clini...

The world of cancer cells is bewildering, very difficult in understanding. The behaviour of cancer cells is not only complex but also intriguing. Research has been unfolding mystery after mystery of the complex world of cancer cells, shedding more and more light into the mysterious nature of cancer cells. In a new t...

What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer? Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is defined as a heterogeneous breast cancer phenotype where the estrogen and progesterone receptor are negative, and there is a lack of overexpression of HER2, as assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), or the absence of its gene amplificati...

Gene Therapy is now touted as a new revolution for cancer treatment. If the list of new cancer treatment methodologies is traversed, then the end seems to be farther and farther away. As a sequel to the relentless efforts by researchers across the world to formulate therapies better than the existing ones, new prosp...

Orchard files for USD173 Million IPO to run pivotal gene therapy trials Orchard Therapeutics, Transatlantic biotech, has filed to raise USD 173 million in an IPO. This will lead it to take three gene therapies through the clinic. Orchard recognised itself as one of the broadest clinical-phase gene therapy pipelines ...

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for th...

AstraZeneca dragout Entasis files to fund antibiotic phase 3 for USD 86 Million IPO Massachusetts-based Entasis Therapeutics has spun out to raise up to USD 86 Million through an IPO. The AstraZeneca spinout is attempting to fund a phase 3 trial of a drug to overcome bacterial resistance to beta-lactams. In 2015, ...