The US FDA approved a new treatment for non-small cell lung cancer - Tremelimumab + Durvalumab + platinum-based chemotherapy. The triple combination therapy significantly improves efficacy and patient survival and has a good safety profile.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a world-renowned children's hospital with a long history. It is recognised as one of the few international paediatric centres in the world that can treat children with rare, complex or multiple conditions.
Damp-heat in the spleen and stomach is a common TCM condition, which simply means that the spleen and stomach are already bad, but are affected by external invasion or diet, resulting in poor digestion and damp-heat in the spleen and stomach.
The trial is testing the effectiveness of two chemotherapy drugs, oxaliplatin and gemcitabine, in combination with radiotherapy, an approach that has been used to treat other aggressive tumours
Pfizer's new treatment, Elranatamab, has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the FDA for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Data from the trial showed a patient efficacy rate of 61.0% and that once the therapy is effective, efficacy is maintained for more than six months in over 90% of patients!
Every disease has a cause, and we are all sick because of various factors. Understanding the causes of diseases can help us to prevent them, which will help our health a lot.
Prostate cancer, which has been increasing in incidence worldwide in recent years, is now a more common cancer among Japanese men. Often, patients with prostate cancer have a poor prognosis and poor survival once they have developed multiple recurrent metastases after treatment with hormones and are difficult to treat with conventional radiotherapy.
Data from a trial show that adding the new drug Eganelisib to standard treatment significantly improves the length of survival for patients with triple-negative breast cancer whose disease remains unexacerbated. Patients benefited regardless of their PD-L1 status.
Almost everyone hopes to have a young and healthy heart. However, 62% of people over 40 years old have cardiovascular disease or risk factors to varying degrees, and 80% of them have not yet fully understood how to maintain a healthy heart. Medical research shows that among all internal organs, the heart is most likely to suffer from "obesity", especially in patients with hypertension, which can also lead to gradual thickening of the heart muscle.
As medicine continues to advance, there are many good drugs and options to fight cancer. Just recently, a study showed that the NALIRIFOX regimen significantly improved the overall survival of patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who had not received previous treatment.
