vendredi 9 octobre 2015

Onco Actu du 9 octobre 2015


1. Biologie

How the elephant got less cancer (and other stories) [The Institute of Cancer Research]

How elephants avoid cancer [Nature News & Comment]

What elephants can teach scientists about fighting cancer in humans [LA Times]

Elephants: Large, Long-Living and Less Prone to Cancer [NY Times]

3.1 Tabac

It Just Got a Lot Harder for Big Tobacco to Defend Itself [WIRED]

Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China, study finds [Reuters]

4.13 Dép., diag. & prono. - Peau

Myriad Genetics to Highlight New Clinical Outcomes Data on myPath(R) Melanoma at the American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting [Myriad]

4.5 Dép., diag. & prono. - Colorectal

USPSTF Refusal to Name CT Colonography a Recommended Screening Tool May Slow Colorectal Cancer Screening Progress and Increase Spending [American College of Radiology]

5.2 Pharma

Exelixis Announces Positive Overall Survival Results from Phase 3 Pivotal Trial of Cobimetinib in Combination with Vemurafenib in Patients with BRAF V600 Mutation-Positive Advanced Melanoma [Exelixis]

With FDA 'breakthrough' in hand, Eli Lilly shoots for accelerated abemaciclib OK [FierceBiotech]

Lilly Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Abemaciclib - a CDK 4 and 6 Inhibitor - in Advanced Breast Cancer [Lilly]

5.2.3 Pharma - économie

Big Pharma teams up to defeat drug pricing proposal in California [FiercePharma]

5.5 ASCO

2015 Symposium Highlights Notable Research Advances in Palliative Care [ASCO]

6.5 Médecines alternatives

Another child with cancer endangered by alternative medicine [Respectful Insolence]