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Cancer treatment devised in 1980s is newly proved effective; data likely support approval of Amgen's KRAS-targeted drug

 

 

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STAT+: Cancer treatment devised in the 1980s has proven effective (again). Will it finally get approval?

By Jason Mast

Wellcome Collection

Despite good results, TIL therapy, which uses T cells that infiltrated tumors, has not been approved. This time, Dutch regulators may bite.

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STAT+: Data likely support approval of Amgen's KRAS-targeted drug, but still come with disappointments

By Adam Feuerstein

Andy Wong/AP

Still, the new data show lung cancer patients are not benefiting from Lumakras as much as previously hoped.

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Biden appoints former government scientist as first leader of ARPA-H

By Sarah Owermohle

White House photo

Wegrzyn currently works at Boston-based Ginkgo Bioworks but has experience in two government agencies Biden hopes to emulate with ARPA-H.

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STAT+: Gilead drug prolongs survival of women with common form of breast cancer

By Adam Feuerstein

Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA

The result could lead to a better treatment option for patients with advanced breast cancer and strengthen the drug’s commercial outlook.

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STAT+: Roche pays $250 million to acquire Good Therapeutics and its preclinical cancer therapy

By Damian Garde

Good Therapeutics

The deal marks an encouraging sign in what remains a difficult market for biotech startups, which have struggled to maintain their valuations.

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STAT+: Why Illumina has a merger mess of its own making

By Matthew Herper

Molly Ferguson for STAT

At the start, there was a kind of “heads you lose, tails I win” kind of logic about Illumina’s decision to close the Grail purchase.

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Opinion: Congress should not compel Medicare to pay for liquid biopsies

By H. Gilbert Welch

Gillian Flaccus/AP

Until a trial shows that a liquid biopsy to detect early cancer helps more than it harms, Medicare should not be compelled to pay for it.

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STAT+: Relay Therapeutics drug shows promise in early trial

By Matthew Herper

Wikimedia Commons

Relay’s drug, known as RLY-4008, works only in tumors that have a particular kind of mutation related to a gene for a protein called FGFR2.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

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