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Cascade of Costs Could Push New Gene Therapy Above US$1 Million Per Patient
Outrage over the high cost of cancer care has focused on skyrocketing drug prices, including the US$475,000 price tag for the country’s first gene therapy, Novartis’ Kymriah, a leukemia treatment approved in August 2017.
But the total costs of Kymriah and the 21 similar drugs in deve...
Cancer is the leading cause of death across the globe. For years now, researchers have led meticulous studies focused on how to stop this deadly disease in its tracks. How close are we to finding more effective treatments?
The World Health Organization (WHO) note that, worldwide, nearly 1 in 6 deaths are down to cancer.
In the United States alone, the National Cancer Institut...
Medical researchers find 11 genes responsible for the spread of cancer
A groundbreaking discovery has identified previously unknown therapeutic targets that could be key to preventing the spread of cancer. Researchers found that by inhibiting several newly identified gene targets they could block more than 99.5 per cent of cancer metastasis in living cells.
In a new study publishe...
Chronic inflammation is a predisposing condition for colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
Reporting last month in the journal Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Anna Means, Ph.D., and colleagues have now linked inflammation-driven carcinogenesis in the colon to loss of an important signaling protein called SMAD4.
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Dr. Zui Pan. Credit: University of Texas at Arlington
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation have developed a new nanoparticle-based platform for simultaneous imaging and treatment of esophageal cancer.
Together with colleagues from The Ohio State University, researchers manufactured polypeptide nanoparticles, which have ne...
Results from two clinical trials are expected to improve the outlook for people diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer that can be treated with surgery.
In the first trial, changing the type of chemotherapy given after surgery from a single drug to a multi-drug regimen greatly improved how long patients lived. Patients in the trial treated with the multi-drug regimen survived for an ...
Treatment wakes up dormant tumour cells which can allow cancer to come back after chemotherapy before slamming on an irreversible ‘stop’ button
A medication more commonly used to treat fungal toenail infections may be helpful in fighting off persistent colorectal cancers which kill 4,000 people in the Thailand each year, a new study has found.
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The Provincial Health Office of Roi Et, Thailand, received the 2018 UN Public Service Award for its cervical cancer prevention programme and promoting gender responsive public services.
Just two decades ago, cervical cancer was the most common cancer for women in Thailand and the country struggled to provide the standard cytology and referral approach due to lack of infrastructure, acce...