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oncology

4 stories tagged "oncology"

Cancer

ALTAIR Missed Its Primary Endpoint. The Press Tour Found Something Else.

A phase 3 trial testing chemotherapy in ctDNA-positive colorectal cancer patients missed its primary endpoint at p=0.107, and a post-hoc reanalysis is doing the public-facing work.

Cancer

Six melanoma patients, six weeks, one common variable: the question oncology is choosing not to study

An oncologist's bedside pattern, a Senate hearing, and a mechanism paper sitting in a mainstream oncology journal: the case that repeated mRNA boosters may be lifting the brakes off cancers oncologists thought they had quiet is no longer fringe enough to wave away.

Drugs & FDA

The Macaques Get a Reprieve. Pharma Gets a Faster Pipeline.

The FDA's new draft guidance lets oncology developers cut animal studies for certain biologics and conjugated products. The replacement laboratory methods are still being validated.

Cancer

Pancreatic cancer's undruggable wall just cracked. The follow-up is 8.5 months and the money was already placed.

Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib nearly doubled median overall survival versus chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer at ASCO 2026, with 8.5 months of follow-up and a two-billion-dollar Royalty Pharma deal already riding on what comes next.