Since 1990, Von Hoff says, there have been 34 late-stage trials of drugs aimed at late-stage pancreatic cancer, including this one.
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Finding cancers early saves many times that amount compared with the cost of late-stage cancer treatment, she notes.
At a meeting of oncologists the two companies were slated to present impressive results of human trials, suggesting the drugs added months to the lives of late-stage cancer patients.
Given a diagnosis of late-stage lung cancer, Walt took up cooking meth to build a nest egg and, later on, to pay his medical bills.
One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
Separately, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) used similar chips in its late-stage clinical studies of its cancer drug, Velcade.
However, I take offence at putting a price cap on saving the lives of tens of thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends with dense breast tissue who suffer unnecessarily and die needlessly from late stage breast cancer due to missed detection of mammographic screenings.
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Dr. James Lah, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine, likens this to late-stage cancer.
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Based on the new resultsRoche is planning to launch a late-stage trial of its PD-L1 inhibitor in lung-cancer patients, while Bristol-Myers is moving its combination regimen into late-phase studies as well.
But breakthroughs in targeting suspect genes in prostate cancer have yielded a tsunami of new drugs, with 100 now in mid- to late-stage human trials, almost triple the number in 1997.
He attributes his interest to the days when his good friend, the late Levon Helm of The Band, then suffering from stage 3 throat cancer, went back on the road after his stream of record royalties dried up.
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In recently completed late-stage trials Acomplia helped people quit their cancer sticks and lose an average of 19 pounds, four times as much as those who got a placebo.
He points to two late stage lung cancer vaccine trials that could remove any remaining uncertainty about the potential future of cancer vaccines.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) shares have doubled since May when a late-stage 900-patient study showed that Avastin significantly extended the lives of colorectal cancer patients.
Among the bargain stocks, Berry says, is Cell Genesys (nasdaq: CEGE - news - people ), which has a number of products in late stage-three trials, including a vaccine for non-small cell lung cancer.
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