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Incyte Achieves $25 Million Milestone as c-MET Inhibitor INC280 Advances Into Phase II Development
(Reuters) Apr 29, 2013 - Incyte Corporation announced today that it has earned a $25.0 million milestone payment from Novartis based on the formal initiation of a Phase II clinical trial evaluating c-MET inhibitor INC280 (formerly INCB28060) as monotherapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Peregrine Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in Breast Cancer Clinical Trial for Bavituximab
(Yahoo! Finance) Apr 29, 2013 - Peregrine Pharmaceuticals today announced the completion of patient enrollment in an investigator-sponsored Phase I trial evaluating bavituximab in combination with the chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel in patients with metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer.
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Mapping of Cancer Cell Fuel Pumps Paves the Way for New Drugs
(Karolinska Institutet) Apr 29, 2013 - For the first time, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have managed to obtain detailed images of the way in which the transport protein GLUT transports sugars into cells.
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Tests on Cancer Cells Shows Them as “Squishy”, Yet Tactically Strong
(R&D Magazine) Apr 29, 2013 - A team of student researchers and their professors from 20 laboratories around the country have gotten a new view of cancer cells.
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Supplements Don't Help with Prostate Cancer: Study
(Reuters Health) Apr 26, 2013 - Despite dietary supplements being popular among prostate cancer patients, a new review of past research says they are not effective treatments for the disease.
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Forma Strikes $200M Deal With Celgene to Discover Cancer Drugs
(Xconomy Boston) Apr 29, 2013 - Forma Therapeutics is entering into a different kind of deal with Celgene that could turn the Watertown, MA-based company into a bigger enterprise that discovers, develops, to someday market its own drugs.
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Variations on a Gene, and Tools to Find Them
(New York Times) Apr 27, 2013 - Cancers have long been categorized by the tissue where they originate in the body, but new tools and tests are helping doctors tailor treatment to specific gene mutations.
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Leading Leukemia Experts: High Leukemia Treatment Costs May Be Harming Patients
(ASH) Apr 25, 2013 - The increasing cost of treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the United States has reached unsustainably high levels and may be leaving many patients under- or untreated because they cannot afford care, according to an article published online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
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HIV Vaccine Trial Shut Down
(Los Angeles Times) Apr 25, 2013 - Federal researchers shut down a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine involving about 2,500 subjects after it is found to be ineffective at preventing healthy subjects from contracting the virus.
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Midlevel Health Jobs Shrink
(Wall Street Journal) Apr 25, 2013 - The health-care sector, one of the last redoubts of stable and well-paying jobs for less-educated workers, is beginning to look less secure.
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Millions Can't Afford to Go to the Doctor
(CNN Money) Apr 26, 2013 - A growing number of Americans are skipping needed medical care because they can't afford it.
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Pfizer Arthritis Drug Rejected by European Regulators
(Reuters) Apr 25, 2013 - European regulators declined to approve marketing of Pfizer Inc's new rheumatoid arthritis treatment Xeljanz, citing the risks of the drug compared with its potential benefit, the company said on Thursday.
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Draft Bill Gives FDA Authority Over Some Pharmacies
(Reuters) Apr 26, 2013 - The Food and Drug Administration would gain greater authority over pharmacies that compound sterile drugs for tailored use and ship them across state lines, under proposed legislation announced on Friday.
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Latin America 'Threatened by Rising Cancer Cases'
(BBC News) Apr 25, 2013 - Cancer is threatening to overwhelm Latin American countries, experts writing in Lancet Oncology warn.
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Maine Center for Cancer Medicine Achieves National QOPI® Certification
(Yahoo! Finance) Apr 25, 2013 - Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Blood Disorders (MCCM) has been nationally recognized for its commitment to continuous quality improvement in oncology care.
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CURE Magazine Announces Winner of the 2013 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing
(The US Oncology Network) Apr 25, 2013 - CURE magazine announced the winner of the 2013 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing during a special award ceremony at the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) 38th Annual Congress.
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Cancer Fighters See More Than $60B in Health Savings From Obama Cigarette Tax
(Washington Times/Inside Politics blog) Apr 26, 2013 - An advocacy wing of the American Cancer Society said Friday that President Obama’s proposed cigarette tax hike would save the nation more than $63 billion in long-term health care costs.
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April 2013 Practice Update (Part Two)
(ASH) Apr 25, 2013 - Congress Working on Legislation to Reform Physician Payment; ASH Advocates for a Minimum of 5 Years of Congressionally Mandated Stable Payment; Representatives Higgins and King will Introduce Cancer Oral Drug Parity Legislation; ASH Advocates for Patients with Blood Cancers to Have Equal Access to Treatment; and more.
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Working With Cancer: A Brave New Professional World
(CNN Money/Fortune) Apr 25, 2013 - As more employees choose to continue working after being diagnosed with cancer, employers must grapple with relatively new territory.
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Geron Updates Imetelstat Development Strategy, Including Progress of Investigator-Sponsored Study in Myelofibrosis
(MarketWatch) Apr 25, 2013 – Company to discontinue discovery research program and close research laboratory facility to focus resources on clinical development in hematologic malignancies.
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Biotech Stock Mailbag: ASCO, Sarepta, Cel-Sci and Hate Mail!
(The Street) Apr 26, 2013 - Here are some highlights from the upcoming ASCO annual meeting based on my first, quick look through the abstracts:
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Monoclonal Antibody with Xencor's High ADCC Fc Technology Enters Phase 2 Study in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
(Yahoo! Finance) Apr 26, 2013 - Xencor announced today that MorphoSys AG has dosed the first patient in a Phase 2 clinical trial of MOR208 in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL).
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Two Cups of Coffee a Day Halves the Risk of Breast Cancer Returning by Boosting the Effect of Medication
(Daily Mail) Apr 26, 2013 - Drinking two cups of coffee a day could stop breast cancer recurring in recovering patients, new research has revealed.
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Periodic Bursts of Genetic Mutations Drive Prostate Cancer
(Weill Cornell Medical College) Apr 25, 2013 - Sequencing of 57 prostate cancer genomes shows cancer gains powerful advantage with abrupt intervals of complex, large scale DNA reshuffling.
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Video May Help Terminal Patients Make CPR Choice
(Reuters Health) Apr 25, 2013 - Terminally ill cancer patients who watched either of two videos about the option to forego resuscitation overwhelmingly elected that route for the patient in the video, if not for themselves, according to a new study.
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