Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. It is broadly classified into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. The latter accounts for about 80% of the…
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Metformin Appears To Fight Lung Cancer But Only In Overweight Patients
Metformin is a common drug prescribed for patients with Type 2 patients to lower their blood sugar. It is a FDA approved drug since 1995 and is used by about 20 million…
FDA Approves New Drug for Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes behind cancer related deaths. Various studies and research works are going on to help lung cancer patients to get cure from this disease. Time-to-time,…
Tarlatamab for Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the second most form of cancers and remains the leading cause of cancer deaths. A variety of new treatments are helping to bring down the number of deaths from…
FDA Approves Optune Luna for Metastatic NSCLC
U.S. based FDA has approved Optune Lua for concurrent use with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors for treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based…
Hetronifly Recommended for Lung Cancer in European Markets
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given a positive opinion and recommended for grant of marketing authorization for the medicinal product, Hetronifly in European markets. It is intended…
Osimertinib Plus Chemo Approved as Ist-Line Treatment for Patients with Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women. It broadly splits into NSCLC and small cell lung cancer. Osimertinib (Tagrisso) in combination with pemetrexed and platinum-containing…
FDA Grants Approval to Amgen’s Treatment for deadly form of Lung Cancer
Every year, about 35k Americans are diagnosed with small cell lung cancer and the cancer usually has spread beyong the lung by the time it gets detected. The Food and Drug Administration…