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Saliva testing may allow early detection of human papillomavirus–driven head and neck cancers

Scienmag

Philadelphia, September 21, 2021 – Cancer causing high-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are responsible for the rising incidence of HR-HPV–driven head and neck cancers (HNC), particularly oropharyngeal cancers (OPC, or throat cancers).

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Pfizer’s pill cuts COVID deaths and hospitalisations by 90%

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The phase 3 trial found that Paxlovid – which combines new protease inhibitor PF-07321332 with already-approved HIV drug ritonavir – reduced the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% when given to newly-diagnosed adults who were at risk of developing severe COVID-19 in the EPIC-HR trial.

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Update on FDA Advisory Committee Vote on LYNPARZA® (olaparib) Plus Abiraterone and Prednisone or Prednisolone in First-Line Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

The Pharma Data

Results from the PROpel trial showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 34% reduction in the risk of radiographic disease progression or death with LYNPARZA plus abi/pred (HR=0.66 [95% CI, 0.54-0.81]; 0.43]) and OS (HR=0.29 [95% CI, 0.14-0.56]) 0.81]; p<0.001) versus placebo plus abi/pred in patients with mCRPC.

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BlueCloud and VirTrial Collaborate to Launch the First Global Training and Certification Program for Telemedicine Best Practices

VirTrial

Verifiable and accessible in real-time, Investigator sites will also benefit by having employer’s VirTrial certifications as part of their dynamic research ready auditable (HR) GDPRDirectory® commonly used for business and compliance tracking, all from one place.”.

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PFIZER SEEKS EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION FOR NOVEL COVID-19 ORAL ANTIVIRAL CANDIDATE

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) includes clinical data from the Phase2/3 EPIC-HR ( Evaluation of Protease Inhibition for COVID-19 in High- Threat Cases) interim analysis. In preclinical studies, PF-07321332 didn’t demonstrate substantiation of mutagenic DNA relations. This submission to theU.S. FDA in October 2021.

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Roche to present data from industry leading portfolio at ESMO.

The Pharma Data

Over 70% of breast cancer cases are hormone receptor (HR)-positive, and there is a need for more effective and tolerable treatments, since up to 30% of patients develop resistance to standard of care treatments and in the adjuvant setting half of patients stop treatment due to the toll of side effects. Lung Cancer Highlights. Real world data.

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News from AACR 2024: Wednesday’s highlights

Drug Discovery World

In clonogenic assay, BRCA2-deficient DLD1 cells were ~15-fold more sensitive to FEN1 inhibition than their isogenic BRCA2-wild-type counterparts (EC50 of 350nM and 5µM, respectively), confirming the increased susceptibility of HR deficient cancer cells to FEN1 inhibition. LAE119 is a potent and selective PARP1 inhibitor and PARP1-DNA trapper.

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