Cancerous cells can emerge in all locations of the human body. Though most of them have the potential to metastasize, i.e, spread to a different organ or tissue in the body, not…
Tag: Lung Cancer
Over 20,000 women in UK diagnosed with lung cancer annually
A leading cancer charity in the UK has revealed that the number of cases of lung cancer in women per year have surpassed the 20,000 mark for the first time since the…
Roche’s alectinib shows promise against ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer
Roche revealed positive results in two studies that investigated the capabilities of its oral investigational anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor (ALKi) dubbed alectinib with the drub being able to shrink tumours in people…
Novartis gains EU approval for Zykadia
Novartis announced today that the European Commission has approved Zykadia (ceritinib) to treat adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) previously treated with crizotinib. The approval…
AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drug delays disease progression by over a year
AstraZeneca has revealed latest data from the ongoing AURA study of AZD9291 [a drug for lung cancer] in patients with advanced epidermal growth factor receptor mutation positive (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer…
UBC researchers target protein associated with aggressive, hard-to-treat tumours
University of British Columbia have showed through their latest research that it is possible to inhibit a specific protein associated with aggressive, hard-to-treat tumours thereby slowing down their ability to spread to…
People over 60 at a greater risk of emergency cancer diagnosis
A new Cancer Research UK-supported study has found that people over the age of 60 are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with lung or bowel cancer as an emergency in…