Sentences with phrase «many lung cancers»

It was published posthumously, after Kalanithi died of lung cancer in 2015 at age 37.

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

But with the exception (perhaps) of some infections, human disease, including lung cancer, is rarely «caused» by one (and only one) thing.

A large, long - term study of male smokers found that those who regularly took Vitamin A were more likely to get lung cancer than those who didn't.

The Hong Kong - listed company has two blockbuster drugs on its roster — anlotinib for lung cancer and tenofovir for hepatitis B — and a few blockbuster generics aiming for approval before 2021.

Another advance in lung cancer, this time from AstraZeneca.

No wonder she got lung cancer.»

The company has performed thousands of tests and is working on detecting prostate, breast, colon, and lung cancers.

Less than a year after growth picked up at the test prep company, Hansoo Lee, Parikh's co-founder, passed away from lung cancer.

Can Merck's Keytruda be stopped in lung cancer?

That leaves Merck largely free of competitors in the near - term in its quest to become a go - to, first - line option for lung cancer patients in combination with chemotherapy (Merck recently surprised investors with an early FDA filing for that combination).

«This is the lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure, another terrible prognosis.»

Some PAHs have caused cancer in laboratory animals when they breathed air containing them (lung cancer), ingested them in food (stomach cancer), or had them applied to their skin (skin cancer).»

Then 1994 happened, and the public turned against big tobacco amid revelations that the companies» executives were exposed to research that suggested nicotine was addictive and cigarettes could cause lung cancer.

«The problem with lung cancer today is we don't have great tools to diagnose it,» says Morgan Stanley analyst David Lewis, who has covered Intuitive for a decade.

Intuitive has teamed up with China's Fosun Pharma, for instance, in a joint venture to detect lung cancers in their earliest stages, developing a flexible robotic catheter that can navigate into the cavernous regions of the lungs.

«It's not lung cancer.»

While she was finishing her last year of college, her mother died suddenly of lung cancer.

But now, Merck is going in for the kill, pushing a combination therapy of Keytruda and chemotherapy that would give the company a far wider reach into the massive lung cancer market.

When lung cancer claimed Nathalie Estime's husband, Roger Ndeffo, in 2007, she lost more than her life partner — she lost her sense of purpose.

Analysts at the investment bank said the Dow member's sales could boom because of Keytruda, a blockbuster drug used to treat lung cancer.

This drug has already staked its claim in the world of next - gen «checkpoint inhibitor» cancer treatments by besting rival Bristol - Myers Squibb's competing treatment Opdivo in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Romero died Sunday following a battle with lung cancer, said his family in a statement provided by his manager Chris Roe.

Immune cells modified by CRISPR - Cas9 were inserted into a lung cancer patient at the West China Hospital in Chengdu in the hopes that they'll be able to fight tumors, and 10 people total will receive injections of CRISPR re-engineered cells in order to assess the method's safety.

The medicines, which help unleash the immune system on cancer cells, were tested in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Disney died in 1966 from lung cancer, and his death was relatively sudden and unexpected.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

Researchers from the Sichuan University in Chengdu inserted the re-engineered cells into a lung cancer patient participating in a clinical trial at the West China Hospital on October 28th, according to Nature.

Freenome says its tests do better than the current options for diagnosing prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung cancers.

Since then, the companies have been scrambling to rack up indications for the rival drugs, which are both approved for treating melanoma and lung cancer.

Disney was cremated after dying from lung cancer, and his ashes are interred in Glendale (you can actually find his memorial).

Merck's cancer immunotherapy Keytruda is one of the pharma giant's rising stars, especially in the wake of evidence that the therapy had a survival benefit over standard chemotherapy in advanced lung cancer patients.

At 55 years old, Carol Cesario's stage IV lung cancer treatments induced hallucinations of Jon Bon Jovi, a rock star she's loved since the»80s.

The company has been trying to win FDA approval for Opdivo to be used as a first option treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

More than 800 of these people were found to have invasive lung cancers over the study's course, and the risk seemed to be especially associated with men who took discrete supplements with vitamin B6 or B12.

A new study making the rounds suggests that high intake of B vitamins is associated with an increased risk for lung cancer.

Smoking is one of the single biggest risk factors for lung cancer, which makes up more than 13 % of all new cancer diagnoses and more than one in four cancer deaths in the U.S.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

Valued for its resistance to heat and corrosion, asbestos was widely used for decades in such products as building materials, pipe insulation and floor tiles before studies linked it to lung cancer and other diseases.

The drug had $ 942 million in global 2015 sales (versus $ 566 million for Keytruda) and, according to the company, has been prescribed to 60 % of new lung cancer patients.

«We observed a 49 percent increased risk of lung cancer among subjects with the highest daily glycemic index,» author of new study says.

It has shown promise in metastatic melanoma, renal, and lung cancers — the last of which represents a huge opportunity for pharmaceutical companies (160,000 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer this year, compared with 10,000 from melanoma).

said they will discontinue a late - stage trial of their experimental lung cancer drug after an interim analysis showed it would not meet the main goal of improving overall survival.

The company actually beat Wall Street profit estimates largely thanks to its superstar cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda, which has been shown to best chemotherapy in helping lung cancer patients live longer and given Merck a leg up over rivals like Bristol - Myers Squibb's immune therapy Opdivo.

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The trial results «should start to put Merck on a better commercial trajectory in lung cancer,» the analyst said in a Thursday note to investors.

The PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda hit its goals in a new trial in previously untreated non-small cell lung cancer patients, beating chemo at staving off cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

Meanwhile, Bristol - Myers rolled out data from a new analysis comparing Opdivo and its fellow BMS immunotherapy Yervoy against Opdivo alone in previously untreated lung cancer patients.

Merck R&D chief Roger Perlmutter said his company believes the Keynote - 024 results «have the potential to change the therapeutic paradigm in first - line treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer.»

Flavonoids in apples improve lung function, protecting you from lung cancer and from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.