Katie Couric, award winning journalist and colorectal cancer advocate who normalized talking about colon cancer more than two decades ago, announced she teamed up with Cologuard® maker Exact Sciences to highlight the urgent need for people to get screened.
A combination of Mirati Therapeutics Inc.’s genetic mutation-targeting adagrasib and Eli Lilly and Co.’s older cancer drug Erbitux shrank tumors in 39 percent of patients with advanced colorectal cancer treated in a small trial, the company said on Sept. 19.
An experimental Amgen Inc. drug that targets a specific genetic mutation shrank tumors in 32% of advanced lung cancer patients and 7% of those with colon cancer, according to data from an early-stage trial.
An experimental Amgen Inc. drug that targets a specific genetic mutation significantly reduced tumor size in half of evaluated patients with advanced lung cancer in a small, early-stage trial, sending the U.S. biotechnology company’s share up nearly 6 percent.
