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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? Additionally, in evaluating the effectiveness of our initial pipeline asset, we sought tumours suitable for intratumoural injection that present surface-accessible lesions. What aspects prompted this research direction?

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New targeted therapies show promise in lung cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

These types differ in their etiology, natural history, and present distinct challenges in disease management. 2 Unmet needs in lung cancer treatment Recent decades have seen significant advancements in lung cancer treatment, especially with the introduction of targeted therapies and immunotherapies, which have notably improved survival rates.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. Other changes around this time aimed at improving treatment accessibility included increased use of take-home doses and telehealth appointments.

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Breakthrough for pancreatic cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

1 Although pancreatic cancer is rarer than the abovementioned cancers, it claims over 50,000 lives each year in the United States because of a lack of effective treatments. Since then, two therapies have been approved for use in lung and breast cancer but it did not advance pancreatic cancer treatment.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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Long-term treatment with the streptococcal exotoxin streptolysin O inhibits vascular smooth muscle contraction by inducing iNOS expression in endothelial cells [Cardiovascular]

ASPET

We previously reported that short-term treatment with SLO at relatively high concentrations (10-1000 ng/mL) diminished acetylcholine-induced, endothelial-dependent relaxation in a concentration-dependent manner. In this study, treatment of rat aorta with endothelium with SLO (0.1-10 In vivo SLO treatment (46.8

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BSV163/DOPE?mediated TRAIL gene transfection acts synergistically with chemotherapy against cisplatin?resistant ovarian cancer

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

The combined treatment successfully enhanced cisplatin cytotoxicity and helped to overcome cisplatin resistance in CR-Caov3 cells. Most patients experience recurrence and succumb eventually to resistant disease, underscoring the need for an alternative treatment option.

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