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FDA gives Daiichi Sankyo’s HER3 drug a breakthrough tag

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After EGFR therapy fails, platinum-based chemo has limited efficacy, generally preventing disease progression or death for between four and six months. Daiichi Sankyo has now started a phase 2 trial – called HERTHENA-Lung01 – in 420 patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC previously treated with at least one EGFR inhibitor and platinum-based chemo.

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Drug Combo May Be Safe, Effective Therapy for Rare Leukemia

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22 in the New England Journal of Medicine , could lead to an effective — and chemo-free — treatment for the cancer. Among adults with ALL, 10% to 20% die during chemo, according to Dr. Dieter Hoelzer, of the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. The chemo-free approach could shorten that. © 2020 HealthDay.

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Sprycel Plus Blincyto Drug Combo May Be Safe, Effective Therapy for Rare Leukemia

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22 in the New England Journal of Medicine , could lead to an effective — and chemo-free — treatment for the cancer. Among adults with ALL, 10% to 20% die during chemo, according to Dr. Dieter Hoelzer, of the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. The chemo-free approach could shorten that. © 2020 HealthDay.

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Enhertu gets breakthrough tag in HER2-low breast cancer

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The top-line results showed that Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) achieved a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in both progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) when compared to physicians’ choice of chemo.

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Gilead tags Merck for first-line triple negative breast cancer trial

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Gilead is sponsoring the new study to see if adding Trodelvy can be an alternative chemo when added to Keytruda in the first-line treatment of advanced TNBC, in the hope of moving the ADC up the treatment pathway. The post Gilead tags Merck for first-line triple negative breast cancer trial appeared first on.

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