Categories Cancer

Livermore: Culinary Angels provides nutritious meals to cancer patients

Livermore: Culinary Angels provides nutritious meals to cancer patients In 2016, Lisa McNaney’s family friend was diagnosed with brain cancer. This was not the first time McNaney had been confronted with the deadly disease. Both McNaney and her 18-year-old daughter are survivors of breast cancer, and her mother succumbed to cancer in 2015. A personal […]

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Categories Cancer

Living with lung cancer: ‘Even when I started coughing up blood, I didn’t tell anyone about it. If I had …

Living with lung cancer: ‘Even when I started coughing up blood, I didn’t tell anyone about it. If I had … Lung cancer is Ireland’s biggest cancer killer, despite being largely preventable and treatable. The problem is, this is often diagnosed at a late stage, partly because people find it difficult to distinguish a cough […]

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Categories Multiple Myeloma

Pfizer Reports Positive Phase II Trial of BRAF, MEK Inhibitor Combo in Multiple Myeloma

Pfizer Reports Positive Phase II Trial of BRAF, MEK Inhibitor Combo in Multiple Myeloma NEW YORK – In a small Phase II trial evaluating Pfizer’s encorafenib (Braftovi) and binimetinib (Mektovi), the majority of heavily pretreated, refractory multiple myeloma patients with BRAF V600 mutations saw their tumors shrink on the combination regimen, researchers reported at the American […]

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