Oncology News

Five Prime Therapeutics and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced today that they have signed a collaboration agreement for the discovery, development and commercialization of immuno-oncology therapies directed toward targets identified in two undisclosed immune checkpoint pathways using Five Prime's proprietary target discovery platform.

The Kit receptor signaling pathway includes activation of PI 3-kinase, Src family kinases and PLC gamma.

Edison Pharmaceuticals today announced the initiation of a phase 2 study entitled "A Phase 2 Safety and Efficacy Study of EPI-743 ) in Children with Pearson Syndrome."

Americans' excessive alcohol use contributes to thousands of deaths each year, and the majority who die are working-age adults, according to a new government report.

So as she and her husband Gary crossed the finish line of the Weekend to End Women's Cancers in Victoria Park yesterday, their reason for trekking 60km over two days to raise funds for research into women's cancers was not far from their minds.

Mindfulness meditation was shown to improve sleep and reduce depressive symptoms in adolescents with cancer in a small, eight-week study.

The Duchess of Cornwall with Yasmine Tornblad and her dog Nano, the first peanut allergy detection dog in Europe, at St James's Palace Great Horwood charity Medical Detection Dogs has a new Royal patron - and a massively raised profile - following a visit to St James's Palace on Tuesday.

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Mount Sinai's Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg says, "More and more adults with sickle cell are able to have children, work, and live fulfilling lives."

Former mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed months after leaving office with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes, a jolting discovery that he described as the most profound challenge of his life.

Health providers may experience information and financial loss during the mandated conversion from the current International Classification of Diseases to its new and improved version, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Americans' excessive alcohol use contributes to thousands of deaths each year, and the majority who die are working-age adults, according to a new government report.

On February 25, 2014, DARA BioScience, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Orphan Drug Designation to KRN5500 for the parenteral treatment of painful, chronic, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy that is refractory to conventional analgesics.

The Cancer Care Center of Davis Medical Center is joining a statewide cancer clinical trials network in order to keep cancer patients closer to home when receiving treatment.

The second time, Bash wanted to explore all her options, including an experimental treatment that manipulates a patient's tumor cells to trigger an immune response.

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There is an association between pancreatic cancer and diabetes, new research indicates.

Alix Hayden has brain cancer, but instead of undergoing surgery and grueling chemotherapy, she's fighting it with the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet and has been doing great so far.

Sibley Memorial Hospital is making another bid to offer proton radiation therapy to pediatric cancer patients - this time with Children's National Memorial Center as a partner.

Marline Van Duyne almost underwent chemotherapy without knowing whether she was among the 80 percent of people with her type of breast cancer who don't need it.