Cancer Drug stories:
UPDATE 1-Poniard cancer drug misses study goal; shares plunge
Nov 16th, 2009 - Reuters
* Says late-stage study data misses primary endpoint * Shares down more than 80 pct Nov 16 (Reuters) - Poniard Pharmaceuticals Inc (PARD.O)said a late-stage study of its experimental lung cancer drugmissed the main goal...
Local biotech firm wins OK on cancer drug
Nov 6th, 2009 - Boston
Gloucester Pharmaceuticals, a six-year-old Cambridge biotechnology start-up, has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market its first drug in the United States. The drug...
Sanofi Sees Profit Gain From Swine Flu as Generics Erode Sales
Oct 30th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA raised its full-year profit growth forecast, saying demand for swine fluvaccines has buoyed sales this quarter. Earnings per share...
SciClone to restructure, cut work force 17 percent
Oct 28th, 2009 - Boston
FOSTER CITY, Calif.—SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Wednesday said it will cut 17 percent of its work force -- which was at 227 people at the end of 2008 -- as part of a corporate restructuring.
Celgene's 3rd-quarter profit jumps 58 percent on cancer drug sales, tops forecasts
Oct 22nd, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
SUMMIT, N.J. (AP) - Biotech drugmaker Celgene Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter profit surged 58 percent on a boost in sales of the cancer drugs Revlimid and Vidaza. The company earned $216.8 million...
Cancer Drug videos from YouTube:
0:59NHS denies drug to cancer patients
People with an advanced form of liver cancer will be denied a new drug on the NHS. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com
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2:24NanoMedicine Cancer Drug Delivery
Medicines do not simply enter the body and wander around until they finds something to cure, and getting compounds to their intended target is one of the biggest challenges for drug manufacturers. The virtual lab in NanoMission V2 allows you to go from the organ view down to individual cells ...
7:04China's Cancer Drug - China
May 2007 Cancer patients are traveling to China hoping that controversial gene therapy Gendicine may prove a miracle cure. But western scientists are very reluctant to back the therapy which remains available only in China. Philomina Moniz was given six months to live by Australian doctors ...
Cancer Drug from WikiPedia:
Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, and do not invade or metastasize. Most cancers form a tumor but some, like leukemia, do not. The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is oncology.
Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age. Cancer causes about 13% of all human deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007. Cancers can affect all animals.
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