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Transforming cancer treatment for greatest impact

Drug Target Review

Could you provide insights into the driving factors behind exploring novel treatments for cancer types? Could you provide further details on how this phenomenon could impact broader treatment outcomes? What aspects prompted this research direction? The concept of the ‘abscopal effect’ in the 4T1 tumour model is intriguing.

Treatment 105
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Behind the new kind of cell therapy that just won FDA approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

One expert views Amtagvi’s approval as a catalyst for further investment in TIL therapies, akin to how Kymriah’s 2017 clearance buoyed CAR-T treatment.

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Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and Comparison to No Treatment

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and Comparison to No Treatment "The findings revealed that exposures to MOUD, even if not continued throughout the six-month exposure period was associated with reduced risk of a fatal poisoning compared to non-MOUD forms of treatment and no treatment exposure.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

Manguso, who’d recently graduated from college and was conducting research at the University of Copenhagen as a Fulbright scholar, moved back to the Boston area to be with his mother as she underwent treatment. His mother had a presentation of the disease that suggested her immune system was already on the job.

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Therapeutic peptide developed for triple-negative breast cancer

Drug Target Review

These findings offer a novel strategy for developing targeted treatments for triple-negative breast cancer, which currently has no approved options. The team also observed that the drug prevented in vitro cancer stem cells from self-renewing, which is a characteristic of aggressive cancer cells that supports treatment resistance.

Treatment 105
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Primary Aldosteronism Testing Rare in Treatment-Resistant HTN

The Pharma Data

Primary Aldosteronism Testing Rare in Treatment-Resistant HTN. 29, 2020 — Patients with apparent treatment-resistant hypertension are rarely tested for primary aldosteronism, according to a study published online Dec. Veterans Health Administration with apparent treatment-resistant hypertension from 2000 to 2017.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

However, these treatments will eventually fail for the majority of patients, so there is a strong need for better CAR therapies. How might the CD5 knockout approach impact the treatment of other types of cancers beyond T-cell lymphoma?