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Two Cancer-Promoting Pathways Linked In Esophageal Cancer

Identification of a non-traditional pathway for spiriting a cancer-promoting protein into the cell nucleus points to a possible combination therapy for esophageal cancer and indicates a mechanism of resistance for new drugs that attack the Hedgehog pathway. A team of researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in the March 20 ...

GSK announces positive vote from FDA panel for pazopanib in certain advanced soft tissue sarcomas

GlaxoSmithKline announced today that the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) to the US FDA voted 11 to 2 that evidence from clinical studies support a favourable benefit – risk assessment for use of Votrient in treating patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma who have received prior chemotherapy, noting that those with gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) ...

FDA To Review Potential New Use Of XGEVA® (Denosumab) At Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has invited the Company to participate in a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) on Feb. 8, 2012 to discuss the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for XGEVA® (denosumab) to treat men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) at high risk of developing ...

FDA Approves Incyte’s Jakafi(TM) (Ruxolitinib) for Patients With Myelofibrosis

WILMINGTON, Del.– Incyte Corporation (Nasdaq: INCY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Jakafi™ (ruxolitinib) for the treatment of patients with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis (MF), including primary MF, post-polycythemia vera MF and post-essential thrombocythemia MF. Patients with intermediate and high-risk MF represent 80 to 90 percent of ...

Glucose Necessary For Cancer Growth May Prove To Be Its Weak Link

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that cancer cells tap into a natural recycling system to obtain the energy they need to keep dividing. In a study with potential implications for cancer treatments, Einstein researchers used genetic manipulation to turn off this recycling system within the walls of cells ...