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The Phone Calls: Another Friend With Breast Cancer
May 28th 2019As a cancer survivor and advocate, I have gotten the calls that we survivors hate: calls from someone we don’t know who says that a mutual friend told them to call, and friends saying they have been received a diagnosis. I am always ready when the phone rings.
FDA Approves Piqray to Treat Breast Cancer
May 25th 2019The Food and Drug Administration has approved the PI3K inhibitor Piqray (alpelisib) for the treatment of postmenopausal women, and men, with HR-positive, HER2-negative, PIK3CA-mutated, advanced or metastatic breast cancer following progression on or after an endocrine-based regimen.
FDA Approves First Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Therapy in Over 15 Years
May 24th 2019The Food and Drug Administration has approved the NovoTTF-100L System in combination with pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy for the front-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic malignant pleural mesothelioma.