New Treatment for Advanced Melanoma Shows Promise supriya kashyap kashyap22 April 2016 2:18 PM ISTIn a study appearing in the April 19 issue of JAMA, Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California - Los Angeles, and colleagues examined...
Pembrolizumab new option for first line treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer and high PD-L1 expression supriya kashyap kashyap11 Oct 2016 12:50 PM ISTPembrolizumab is set to become a new option for first line treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer and high PD-L1 expression, according to the...
New category of Immunotherapy safe & effective in cancer patients with HIV Anjali Nimesh Nimesh9 Nov 2017 7:05 PM IST A new category of immunotherapies called checkpoint inhibitors that has been highly effective against many different cancers appears safe to use in...
Pembrolizumab leads to remission in patients of rare pregnancy cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh27 Nov 2017 7:00 PM ISTThree out of four patients with the cancerous forms of the gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) went into remission after receiving the...
New combo safe and effective in advanced kidney cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh12 Feb 2018 7:00 PM ISTAccording to findings of researcher at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center presented in the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in...
Keytruda Gains First Cervical Cancer Indication Vinay Singh singh15 Jun 2018 7:25 PM ISTThe Food and Drug Administration approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck and Co. Inc.) for patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer with...
Immunotherapy better than chemotherapy for some Head and Neck Cancers Hina Zahid8 Dec 2018 7:20 PM ISTA randomized clinical trial involving 97 medical centers in 20 countries, including Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, found that treating...
Rare case of Cardiac Metastasis of Malignant Melanoma Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli3 March 2019 6:00 PM ISTDr Houssein Safa, M.D at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX and colleagues have reported a rare case of Cardiac Metastases...
Combination therapy doubles survival in metastatic lung cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh19 May 2018 7:05 PM ISTThe immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, when combined with chemotherapy, doubles survival in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer...
