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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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Pluvicto™ offers survival benefits for metastatic prostate cancer

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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.

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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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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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MHRA approves Pluvicto® and Locametz® for prostate cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

Radioligand therapy (RLT), which combines a targeting compound (ligand) with a therapeutic radioactive atom (radioisotope), is an emerging treatment approach that may offer an alternative treatment option for some cancer patients. Its licensing makes it the first diagnostic PSMA imaging tracer to receive this status in Great Britain.

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Astellas, Seagen seek speedy reviews of Padcev in bladder cancer

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One of the filings is to convert the ADC’s current conditional approval as a later-line therapy for urothelial cancer in patients previously treated with PD-1/L1 checkpoint inhibitors and platinum-based chemotherapy into a full approval. Both have been granted an FDA priority review with an action date of 17 August.