HERLEV, Denmark — A leading Danish cancer hospital has treated its first patient using RapidArc(R) radiotherapy after installing eight advanced radiotherapy treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) of Palo Alto, California. Herlev Hospital, to the north-west of Copenhagen, delivered the fast and efficient RapidArc treatment to a prostate...
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A new prostate cancer risk assessment test, developed by a UCSF team, gives patients and their doctors a better way of gauging long-term risks and pinpointing high risk cases. According to UCSF study findings, published this week, the test proved accurate in predicting bone metastasis, prostate cancer-specific mortality, and all-cause...
Amsterdam – Collaboration in prostate cancer translational research in Europe is not only vital to sustain the progress achieved in recent years but also to streamline current efforts between researchers and clinicians and avoid duplication or overlaps. This was amongst the goals of the two-day Prostate Cancer Translational Research in...
KVISTGARD, Denmark — Detailed data from a randomized Phase 2 study with PROSTVAC(TM) were presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Orlando. The presentation was made by Philip Kantoff MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who is also the principal investigator of the study....
NEWARK, Calif. – Protagonist Therapeutics (Nasdaq:PTGX) (“Protagonist” or “the Company”) today announced updated results from the ongoing Phase 2 study of rusfertide, an investigational new drug being evaluated for the treatment of polycythemia vera (PV). “This data set cumulatively builds on previously presented scientific evidence demonstrating rusfertide’s potential as the first-in-class,...
NEWARK, Calif. – Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. (“Protagonist” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PTGX), today announced the completion of enrollment for the Company’s Phase 2 study of rusfertide (PTG-300) in polycythemia vera (“PV”). Enrollment easily exceeded the targeted 50 evaluable patients for the study. Those patients eligible for enrollment, but unable to...
Israeli biotech firm Protalix Biotherapeutics Ltd. (PLX: News ) is only months away from announcing the late-stage study results of its lead product candidate prGCD for the treatment of Gaucher (pronounced Go-shay) disease. Gaucher disease is an inherited genetic disorder, in which patients lack the normal form of the glucocerebrosidase,...
CARMIEL, Israel – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: PLX) (TASE: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx® plant cell–based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research focused healthcare Group (Chiesi...
CARMIEL, Israel and BOSTON – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: PLX) (TASE: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthare Group (Chiesi Group),...
CARMIEL, Israel and BOSTON – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American:PLX) (TASE:PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins produced by its proprietary ProCellEx® plant cell-based protein expression system, and Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthcare Group (Chiesi Group),...