Oncology

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Gilead tags Merck for first-line triple negative breast canc...

Take two recently-approved immunotherapies for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), put them together, and what do you get?

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Takeda buys GammaDelta to boost cancer cell therapy credenti...

Japanese drugmaker Takeda has said it will exercise its option to buy UK-based GammaDelta Therapeutics, a specialist in 'off-the-shelf' cell therapies for solid tumours and blood cancers.

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AZ/Daiichi partner with Merck on first-line lung cancer tria...

The dominance of Merck & Co's Keytruda in the treatment of previously-untreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) means it will be hard to dislodge – so AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo

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Seagen's breast cancer drug Tukysa turned down by NICE

NICE has decided not to recommend Seagen's orally-active HER2 inhibitor Tukysa for advanced breast cancer in draft guidance, saying it isn't a cost-effective use of NHS resources.<

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AZ's Imfinzi is first immunotherapy to raise survival in bil...

AstraZeneca's checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi has become the first cancer immunotherapy to improve survival in previously-untreated patients with biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare and aggress

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