Microarrays and the fingerprints of cancer
July 10, 2011
How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart | www.nytimes.com
Genetic testing in regards too cancer cells has been a long time projectMicroaaray techniques using more reliable RNA versus DNA patterns will likely lead the wayProteionomic is is yet a further downstream approach to classifying cancer uniqueness
Profitable palliation of none at all?
July 4, 2011
There is a plethora of new treatments for cancer.Universally new cancer treatments are very expensive.There are as many cancer patients being treated for palliative purposes as cure
Avastin: a targeted drug without a target?
June 30, 2011
Breast Cancer Patients Plead for Avastin Approval | www.nytimes.com
Targeted cancer therapy is the trend in oncology therapyAvastin is a targeted therapy that has only theory backing up it's mode of actionAvastin has the benefit and drawback of being designated as broadly active yet specific to no cancer!
Tarceva gives more proof: One should know the target for Targeted therapy
June 4, 2011
Roche’s Tarceva Stalls Lung Cancer With Gene Mutation in Late-Stage Study | www.bloomberg.com
So called targeted therapy has been a term coined over the last decade in the approach to treating cancer. A recent Roche study demonstrates almost doubling of disease control when one uses a patient population that has a defined target is treated with the drug Tarceva
Necessity may be the mother of invention,but the father is profit.
April 16, 2011
Shortage Worsens of Leukemia Drug | online.wsj.com
There is a shortage of many cancer fighting medications, as more and more of the agents used to treat cancer become generic. The problem is both profit and regulation driven.
Will provenge fall the way of radioimmunotherapy
November 19, 2010
Medicare Panel Supports Use of Provenge in FDA-Approved Population | blogs.wsj.com
Provenge recently approved for HRPC .Provenge was designed for asymptomatic patients with increasing PSAsProvenge involves referral to a specialized center to perform the procedure
January 30, 2010
Roche gets EU approval for Herceptin to treat HER2-positive advanced stomach cancer | www.pharmabiz.com
There has been between a 20-30% Her over expression detected on adeno ca of gastric mucosaThe fastest growing esophageal malignancy is GE junction adenoca, which acts and is treated very similar to adeno ca of stomachOther solid tumors are likely to also demonstrate a similar benefit
December 16, 2009
BiPar Sciences' BSI-201 phase-3 trial makes progress in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer | www.pharmabiz.com
Recent evidence suggest that PARP is a new enzyme related target for TNBCTNBC sorely needs more effective therapyBe certain, the PARP target is not TNBC specific
December 10, 2009
Novartis' Tasigna demonstrates greater efficacy over Glivec in chronic myeloid leukaemia | www.pharmabiz.com
Gleevec has revolutionized outcome/ therapy in CMLRecent phase III demonstrates better tolerance of Tasigna over GleevecCML outcome is reflected in MR and Tasigna seems to do it better
Roche's Avastin declined by European "bean counters" for brain tumor
November 23, 2009
European medical advisory committee does not recommend approval of Avastin for deadly form of brain cancer | www.pipelinereview.com
Avastin utilized successfully in US for primary brain tumors, including the very aggressive GBMHealth care, including cancer, will be all about rationingRoche and other pharma companys better get ready for a rough future
February 7, 2012
What do the cloud, collaboration and virtualization have in common?
January 27, 2012
Clinical diagnostic acquisitions dominate 2011 top ten list
January 12, 2012
Gene therapy success threatens drugs for hemophilia and rare diseases
December 13, 2011
Medtech M&A activity accelerates in 2011
November 30, 2011