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Chemotherapy and Compounding – What You NEED to Know

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Epicur Pharma’s Advisory Council member Ann Donoghue, DVM, MS shares her personal perspective on the important relationship between veterinary oncology and compounded medications used in chemotherapy treatments. Many of the presentations discussed the chemotherapies available to treat dogs.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

With alpha particles, you must be very careful how the drug is made to ensure that the compound remains stable between manufacturing and use. How do you perceive radiopharmaceuticals complementing existing cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy? What do you envision the future of radiopharmaceuticals to be like?

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Novartis’ Pluvicto presents survival benefit for castration-resistant prostate cancer

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Pluvicto becomes the first PSMA-targeted intravenous radioligand therapy – combining a targeting compound or ligand with a therapeutic radionuclide or radioactive particle (in this case, lutetium-177) – to demonstrate clinical benefit in mCRPC patients before receiving taxane-based chemotherapy.

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Are Exact Strength Medications Exact? Why Standard Strength is Better for Veterinary Patients

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However, the more closely we look at what it takes to compound an exact strength, the clearer it becomes standard dosages are more beneficial to both patients and veterinary practices. Exact strengths are compounded by a technician in capsules or tablets at traditional 503A pharmacies. milligram tablet and a 1.6 milligram tablet.

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Novel oral chemotherapeutic holds potential for stomach cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

The availability of oral chemotherapy treatments would provide stomach cancer patients with the option of more efficacious drugs with improved tolerability in a more convenient dosage format” The poor clinical outcomes of stomach cancer make it a key target for drug development. Benefits of daily oral chemotherapy over IV.

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US FDA approves Incyte’s merkel cell carcinoma therapy

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It is also being assessed in other tumour types and along with other Incyte pipeline compounds. Zynyz monotherapy showed a 52% objective response rate (ORR) in chemotherapy-naïve patients. We continue to study the potential of Zynyz in additional tumour types and in combination with other Incyte pipeline compounds.”

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Pluvicto™ offers survival benefits for metastatic prostate cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

PSMAfore, is a Phase III, open-label, multi-centre, 1:1 randomised study comparing the efficacy and safety of Pluvicto to a change in ARPI in 469 patients with PSMA–positive mCRPC. Pluvicto is an intravenous radioligand therapy that combines a ligand, a targeting compound with lutetium-177, a therapeutic radionuclide.