cancer
2 entries tagged cancer. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
Pancreatic Cancer Has a Drug That Works. Now the FDA Wants It Tried First
Three weeks after approving daraxonrasib for pancreatic cancer that has already been treated — the first drug to roughly double survival in that disease — the FDA gave it Breakthrough Therapy status for newly diagnosed patients, on top of chemotherapy. What the drug does, what the trials actually showed, what "breakthrough" legally means, and the $39,800-a-month company behind it.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
What Radioligand Therapy Is, and Why a Second Lutathera Matters
On September 14 the FDA approved Bexlutry, Curium's copy of Novartis's Lutathera — the first "radioligand equivalent" ever cleared. The question underneath the headline: what is a radioligand therapy, what does the evidence say it does for neuroendocrine tumours, and why did it take a Delaware courtroom to get a second one to market? With numbers, and the companies.