Rasonque

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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.

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