▲Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows(theguardian.com)
70 points by c-oreills 2 hours ago | 7 comments
▲amluto 1 hour ago
Derek Lowe’s writeup is good: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/progress-against-p...
▲rvnx 38 minutes ago
The founders of Lovable and Builder.ai individually received more funds than the whole group of the researchers behind this medicine...
▲StephenAmar 45 minutes ago
If you want to see what the side effects look like, look at ex Senator Ben Sasse: https://youtu.be/7CFo6-6BN9k?si=2B3dqB4rOhAnPiZl
▲maxall4 1 hour ago
Paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2605555?query=fe...
▲mrandish 21 minutes ago
Totally naive question: is this a situation where stacking the drug with chemo might be even better?
▲chilldsgn 48 minutes ago
I hope they can get this to people quickly. Someone I love has been diagnosed with stage 3 end of Feb this year and it's utter hell. For everyone, not just the patient.
▲thowland 26 minutes ago
While not fully approved, the company has early access available to people who meet the treatment criteria and would potentially benefit. Their HCP should evaluate this (it's not all types of pancreatic cancer, and it's not a silver bullet - but it looks like its double the survival time than current chemo). Hopefully this evolves into a new class of treatment.
▲Herodotus38 1 hour ago
Source article for those interested:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2505783

Paywalled but has a free access option if you make an account.