Physicans' Financial News: October 2007
June 30th 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on newsworthy and/or notable companies in the oncology/biotech sector. In this issue:1) Genentech: Continues to Grow Oncology Portfolio2) ImClone: Erbitux News Initially Raise ImClone Shares3) AstraZeneca: Prostate Drug Enters Phase II4) Kiadis Pharma: One Blood Cancer Treatment Clears Phase II Hurdles, Another May Hit Market By 20095) Big Pharma Stocks Show Signs of Life
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Fast Facts: New Cancer Survival Data
June 29th 2010New data recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has provided a degree of hopeful news to oncologists and their patients, suggesting that progress is being made in the fight against cancer and that a number of trends are pointing toward continued gains.
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Physicians' Financial News November 2007
June 29th 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on newsmaking and/or notable companies in the oncology/biotech sector. In this issue: 1) Pharmion: Oncology-Centered Focus Fuels Continued Pharmion Growth 2) Bristol-Myers Squibb: Treatment-Resistant Breast Cancer Targeted 3) Merger-Mania Poised to Envelop Biotech Sector? and more
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Physicians' Financial News: January 2008
June 25th 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on news-making and/or notable companies in the oncology/biotech sector. In this issue: 1) Bristol-Myers Squibb: BMS Boasts Bright Oncology Future 2) Infinity Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca: Prostate Cancer Partnership Begins to Bear Fruit 3) Genentech: Avastin Shown To Halt Brain Cancer Progress, and more
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Physicians' Financial News: February 2008
June 23rd 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on news-making and/or notable companies in the oncology/biotech sector. In this issue: Millennium Pharmiceuticals, Inc.: Future Looking Bright After Record 2007 Eisai Co., Ltd.: Eisai Purchases MGI Pharma Amgen, Inc.: Denosumab Linked With Increased Bone Density in Breast Cancer Patients Genzyme Corporation: Thyrogen Captures New Thyroid Cancer� Related Indication
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Physicians' Financial News: March 2008
June 21st 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on news-making and/or notable companies in the oncology biotechnology sector. In this issue: Novartis: Novartis Leverages Formidable Size and Pipeline to Maintain Strong Oncology Position Roche AG: Ventana Medical Systems Taken Over by Roche Schering Plough: Potential Melanoma Treatment Granted Priority Review Amgen: Studies Suggest Expanded Role for Vectibix in Colorectal Cancer OxiGene: Potential Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Treatment Hits a Key Phase II Target
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Physicians' Financial News: April 2008
June 17th 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on news-making and/or notable companies in the oncology biotechnology sector. In this issue: Sanofi-Aventis: Pushing Forward Pipeline, Products, and Profits OncoGenex Technologies: Prostate Cancer Product Candidate Hits Primary Phase II Endpoint GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Genmab: Potential Leukemia Treatment Shows Positive Response in Dual-Phase Trial Genentech: Avastin Approval Brightens Genentech's Outlook Adherex Technologies, Inc.: ADH-1 Attains Orphan Status Novacea: Potential Advanced Cancer Treatment Clears Key Phase I Hurdles
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Physicians Financial News: June 15, 2010
June 15th 2010Physicians' Financial News focuses on news-making and/or notable companies in the oncology biotechnology sector. In this issue: Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Flourishing on Strength of Single Agent With Multiple Applications Cephalon, Inc.: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Treatment Approved: First New Option in Seven Years Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: New Challenges, New Hope Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Potential Ovarian Cancer Treatment Advancing Through Development Pipeline BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and ASKA Pharmaceutical: Enhanced Survival, Tolerability Observed in Joint Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Trial
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ASCO Policy Change Creates Massive Avalanche of Pre-Meeting Data
June 9th 2010When ASCO decision-makers decided to revise the manner in which they disseminate eagerly anticipated clinical research data, the news made headlines and reverberations that were felt throughout the worlds of oncology research, practice, finance, and investment.
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Academic research is fueling tremendous strides in oncology and biotechnology. The Academy delivers the latest news on biotech and oncology research, providing a link between the clinical world of cancer care and the university researchers who are pushing the envelope of knowledge and discovery.
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Stanford Researchers Lock on to Novel Leukemia Treatment Target
May 24th 2010Stanford University School of Medicine investigators may have discovered a new chemotherapy target for a deadly form of leukemia. A molecular signal, glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), known to regulate cell growth appears to play a %u201Cdouble agent%u201D role.
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Nanotech-based Methylation Testing May Profoundly Impact Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment Assessment
May 24th 2010Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, have developed an innovative test to screen for chemical modifications to DNA, which are known as methylation. The test could potentially be used to diagnose cancer early on and to assess patients%u2019 response to cancer therapies.
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Study Links Hepatitis B Exposure to Increased Pancreatic Cancer Risk
May 24th 2010In what researchers are touting as a first-of-its-kind finding, Houston-based University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center investigators have discovered a potential connection between exposure to the hepatitis B virus and an increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
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Eli Lilly Lands Expanded Lung Cancer Latitude
May 24th 2010Eli Lilly and Company has obtained FDA approval for an expanded indication of its anti-cancer agent Alimta. This new indication allows Alimta to be combined with cisplatin as a first-line treatment in locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for patients with nonsquamous histology.
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Three Trials Affirm Anticancer Benefit of Zometa in Early-Stage Breast Cancer
May 24th 2010At the 33rd Annual ESMO Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, investigators presented new data from 3 clinical trials that indicate Zometa reduces the risk of local and distant breast cancer recurrence in pre- and postmenopausal women with early stage disease (stage I or II).
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FDA Approves First Anti-Nausea Patch for Patients in Chemotherapy
May 24th 2010ProStrakan Group plc, announced it had attained FDA approval to market Sancuso in the United States. The company describes Sancuso as the first and only anti-nausea and vomiting agent formulated for delivery via a transdermal patch, designed specifically to prevent these adverse effects in patients with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy.
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