New treatments for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were approved based on a Phase 3 clinical trial. Richard Kim has recently provided an overview of this study. The Study This study ultimately…
Thanks to advances in immunotherapy, liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma-HCC) has seen a rise in treatment options for patients in advanced stages of the disease. HCC is one of the…
According to a study published in PLOS Genetics, a recent genetic study of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cancer tumors has revealed vital information that could one day lead to a new…
Recently, the National Cancer Institute provided a $2.5M grant to support specialized medical research being performed at the Wake Forest Organoid Research Center (WFORCE). According to the press release,…
According to a story from the National Hemophilia Foundation, the drug company uniQure has provided an update in regards to a case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that emerged in a…
Sorafenib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been unbeatable for treating cancer of the liver for the past thirteen years. An article by the Cleveland Clinic stated that during that time,…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biotechnology company Tiziana Life Sciences plc has announced that it was recently granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office…
Biopharmaceutical company Theratechnologies Inc. recently announced that its therapy candidate tesamorelin is effective in the treatment of HIV-associated nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). According to new data, published in JCI Insight, tesamorelin…
In June 2019, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals submitted a clinical trial application for their DCR-A1AT therapy and expects to treat the first patient with A1AD-related liver disease near the end of…
According to a story from the Malvern Daily Record, the biotechnology company Exelixis, Inc. has recently announced that its partner company Ipsen BioPharmaceuticals Canada Inc. has had its drug cabozantinib…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, the biotechnology company Tiziana Life Sciences plc has announced the release of preliminary topline data findings from its phase 2a clinical trial, which tested…
The FDA has just recently approved CYRAMZA as a treatment for those with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), who have been treated with sorafenib, and who have ≥400 ng/mL of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP).…
According to a story from finanzen.ch, the pharmaceutical company Eisai, Inc. announced that that company presented a total of four abstracts which were related to a Phase 3 clinical trial…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, the biotechnology company Tiziana Life Sciences plc recently announced encouraging results from an interim safety review of the company's Phase 2a clinical trial. This…
According to an article from Global Banking & Financing Review, the California-based pharmaceutical company Exelixis, Inc. has announced the FDA's approval of their drug Cabometyx (cabozantinib) for patients previously diagnosed…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biotechnology company Tiziana Life Sciences Plc has recently announced that participant enrollment in its Phase 2a clinical trial has finished. This clinical trial…
According to a story from bioportfolio.com, the biopharmaceutical company Eureka Therapeutics recently released the results of the proof of concept trial for its experimental T-cell therapy ET140202 as a treatment…
According to a press release from Eisai Inc. and Merck (also known as MSD), Lenvima®(lenvatinib) has been approved by the United States FDA as a first-line treatment for patients…
According to a story from the St. Helens Star, Amanda Sackville-Wiggins was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare type of liver cancer, just after her 21st birthday. The cancer was…
According to a story from Financial Buzz, the drug development company Eisai and Merck recently announced that their cancer drug lenvatinib, marketed as LENVIMA,® has gained marketing approval from the…
Meet Andrea Wilson Woods (pictured below with her little sister); an author, public speaker, career coach, organization founder, and patient advocate. In her early twenties, Andrea became the legal guardian…
According to Phys.org, a group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina recently discovered exciting news regarding cancer cells in humans. Specifically, these scientists have found that these…
According to a report by phys.org, scientists at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical university of South Carolina discovered an interesting connection between lung cancer cells and the cellular aging…
According to medicalxpress.com, Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the world. It is also the most common form of liver cancer. New research from a…
Doctors told Samantha Youakim she had hepatocellular carcinoma when she was 10 years old. As a result of this rare form of liver cancer, the experts told her she’d only…
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