Eli Lilly profit beats estimates on demand for cancer, diabetes drugs By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read (Reuters) -Eli Lilly and Co beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Friday, boosted by strong demand for its diabetes and cancer drugs and a partial lift from sales of its COVID-19 antibody treatment. Slideshow ( 2 […]
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Activity of Sorafenib plus Capecitabine (SorCape) in Previously Treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Lessons Learned Treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) typically involves multiple lines of therapy with eventual development of treatment resistance. In this single arm, phase II study involving heavily pre‐treated patients, the combination of sorafenib and capecitabine (SorCape) yielded a clinically […]
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A Stunning 3-D Journey Inside a Cancer Cell OpenCompilation of 3-D color-projection photographs of a cancer cell highlights its internal structures. The photography technique used to capture these images, called Z stacking, helps researchers see the contents of cells and where each part lies in relation to the others. Credit: Dylan T. Burnette and Aidan […]
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Plitidepsin found to work better than remdesivir for treating COVID-19 Credit: CC0 Public Domain A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., France and Spain has found that the drug plitidepsin worked better at treating COVID-19 than did remdesivir in a lab setting. In their paper published in the […]
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Hem/Onc Roundup: Radiation for Prostate Cancer, Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trials, and More DocWire News spoke with Raj Chakraborty, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Division of Hematology/Oncology, about promising results from current clinical trials for newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma. Recent Clinical Trials for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma, with Dr. Raj Chakraborty […]
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Friday Frontline: Oncologist With Terminal Cancer Gifted Tickets to 2021 Super Bowl, Indiana … A trip to the 2021 Super Bowl allows an oncologist with terminal cancer to fulfill a lifelong dream Dr. Brian Lane, a urological oncologist at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was first diagnosed with cancer in 2018. Treatment initially went […]
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