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2. Etiologie
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3.1 Tabac
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Smoke signals [The Economist]
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The
most skilled contortionist in the industry may be Philip Morris
International, the world’s biggest tobacco firm. To date, any good news
for shareholders has been bad news for lungs. But the firm now says it
wants to improve profits and health alike.
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Teens most drawn to e-cigarettes by online ads [Reuters]
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“E-cigarette
ads use many of the same themes used to sell cigarettes and other
conventional tobacco products, such as independence, rebellion and sex,”
said lead study author Dr. Tushar Singh of the Office on Smoking and
Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta.
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4. Dépistage, diagnostic et pronostic
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4.1 Dép., diag. & prono. - Prostate
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5. Traitements
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5.12 Immunothérapies
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5.12.3 Immunothérapies-combinaisons
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AstraZeneca to trial a new cancer vaccine with its PD-L1 drug (FierceBiotech]
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AstraZeneca’s
biologics arm MedImmune and the Jacksonville, FL-based biotech will
start a Phase II trial of the cancer vaccine TPIV 200--a multi-epitope
anti-folate receptor vaccine (FRα)--in combination with AstraZeneca’s
PD-L1 drug candidate durvalumab, in patients with platinum-resistant
ovarian cancer.
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5.2.1 Pharma - Partenariats
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AbbVie pens third oncology tie-up this week [FierceBiotech]
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The
drug, currently in the preclinical stage, is designed to attack both
solid and blood cancers by targeting transferrin receptor 1 (also known
as CD71), but is believed to be able to help attack the tumor without
damaging healthy tissue--something that typically causes major side
effects in traditional cancer therapies.
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5.2.3 Pharma - économie
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More drug makers are taking hefty price hikes on more drugs [STAT]
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Given
the clamor over the cost of prescription drugs, most manufacturers were
expected to avoid drawing attention to themselves by boosting price
tags. But several companies have been hiking prices for their medicines
at a rate that one Wall Street analyst found surprising.
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5.3 Traitements - FDA, EMA,...
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6. Lutte contre les cancers
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6.1 Observation
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Does sex protect men against prostate cancer? [Reuters]
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“While
our findings should be confirmed in studies that evaluate the potential
biological mechanisms underlying the observed associations, the results
of our study suggest that ejaculation and safe sexual activity
throughout adulthood could be a beneficial strategy for reducing the
risk of prostate cancer.”
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6.11 Patients
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6.3 Associations
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6.6 Publications
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6.7 DMP, Big Data & applis
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Europe plans $7.5B region-wide cloud system to connect scientists [FierceBiotech]
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A
phased rollout of the project is planned between now and 2020. The
first step is the creation of the European Open Science Cloud, an
initiative that will pull together existing platforms and scientific
clouds to create a region-wide location for the storage and analysis of
data. Work on this task is up and running already.
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