Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models
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#3What’s the process for this to be tested and moved onwards toward approved use?
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#4Question from a layman:
>100% of solid tumors
Solid tumors == all cancer, or would something like a lymph node cancer not be included?
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#5The story is beautiful, too: https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/new-cancer-hope-as-pill-kills-...
Named after a girl that died. Resulted in fundraising for Neuroblastoma, and this medicine.
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#6What’s the process for this to be tested and moved onwards toward approved use?
Phase 1: basic safety, some amount of dose-finding. Small number of patients.
Phase 2: does it appear to work as intended, tested in a larger number of people
Phase 3: is it better than alternatives.
Then approval, followed by monitoring of the drug and side effects.
There's also an additional phase of getting insurance to pay for the new drug, which can be the most difficult.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/making-treatme...
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#7What’s the process for this to be tested and moved onwards toward approved use?
Phase 1 trial scheduled to end in March 2024
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#8Question from a layman: >100% of solid tumors Solid tumors == all cancer, or would something like a lymph node cancer not be included?
I'm a layman too but I think this distinguishes them from blood cancer, which does not form solid clumps of cancerous mass...
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#9Amazing if true, and can't be released soon enough. In the US this will likely be a million dollars or something insane, because its the US.
Re: Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models
#10Amazing if true, and can't be released soon enough. In the US this will likely be a million dollars or something insane, because its the US.
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