Colorectal Cancer

Sep 05, 2023

FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designations to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for HER2+ Solid Tumors, Including mCRC ENHERTU® (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) has been granted two additional Breakthrough Therapy Designations (BTDs) in the United States for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastati...

Aug 10, 2023

Quest Introduced First-To-Market Consumer-Initiated Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease Risk Assessment on Questhealth Website On July 31, 2023, Quest Diagnostics, a leader in diagnostic information services, announced the introduction of the AD-Detect™ Test for Alzheimer's Disease on questhealth.com – the first ...

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 27, 2022

FDA Approves Gilead Sciences’ Sunlenca Sunlenca, a Gilead Sciences therapy for people with multidrug-resistant (MDR) HIV infection that only needs to be taken twice a year, has received FDA approval for the second time of asking. Sunlenca, which is based on the HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir, is intended to be...

Jul 26, 2022

FDA Approves Incyte’s Opzelura as First Vitiligo Therapy The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Incyte’s Opzelura cream 1.5% for the topical treatment of non-segmental vitiligo in adult and paediatric patients 12 years of age and older. With this approval, Opzelura is the first and only FDA-approved...

Jan 10, 2022

Colorectal cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the colon or the rectum. Colorectal Cancer is the third most lethal and fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. In 2020, nearly 2 million new cases were expected, with approximately 1 million deaths across the globe....

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...

Mar 11, 2020

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Ofev (nintedanib) has received FDA recommendation for the treatment of chronic fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILD) with a progressive phenotype Interstitial Lung Disease - ILD – a group of a large number of lung disorders resulting in scarring or fibrosis of lungs, caused by conditi...

Feb 27, 2019

Patients suffering from Colorectal Cancer (CRC) usually gets affected with distant organ metastases spreading the tumor to other parts of the body. Patients with unresectable or borderline resectable Colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) are given Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NC) to limit liver resection and to lower dow...

May 24, 2017

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA, Merck & Co.) for adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic, microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) solid tumors that have progressed following prior treatment and...