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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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There’s been huge progress in treatments for blood cancer in recent years – but drawbacks of expensive CAR-T cell and injected antibody therapies have led drug developers to look at novel oral therapies as patient-friendly alternatives. These are particularly important in the progression of certain blood cancers.

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Unveiling Potential: Exploring Alpha Emitter Radiopharmaceuticals

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Radiobiological and Clinical Considerations from CRO and Emerging Biotech Radiopharmaceuticals are medicinal formulations containing radioisotopes that are used in the field of nuclear medicine primarily for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, particularly cancer.

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Life Sciences 2022 Year in Review

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In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the following four new gene therapies: Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg) for the treatment of adult patients with high-risk Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS) with or without papillary tumors.

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A history of Johnson & Johnson

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The company has also faced claims that it did not adequately communicate the risks of its opioid painkillers in its marketing, contributing to the US’ ‘opioid epidemic’, and that its talc products could contain small amounts of asbestos and lead to cancer. But ultimately these dips are likely to only be blips on the radar for J&J.

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PFIZER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER 2021 RESULTS

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up 28%, primarily driven by continued strong demand in the metastatic and non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer indications, as well as the metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer indication, which was approved in the U.S. in December 2019; and. View source version on businesswire.com : [link].