McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. U·ni·ted States A·dopt·ed Names (USAN)(yū-nī'tĕd stāts ă-dop'tĕd nāmz) Designation for nonproprietary names (for drugs) adopted by the USAN Council in cooperation with the manufac...
HiFiBiO Therapeutics, a clinical stage global biotech company focusing on improving patient lives with single cell precision, announced that Fierce Biotech has named it as one of 2023’s “Fierce 15” biotechnology companies.
Two immunotherapy drugs for previously untreated CLL, obinutuzumab and ofatumumab (in combination with standard chemotherapy) Two molecularly targeted drugs for treatment-resistant or relapsed CLL, ibrutinib and idelalisib "These new therapies fill an enormous need for thousands of patients living with CLL...
Chemotherapymodulating agents are a class of drugs used to treat asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate-resistant (hormone-refractory)prostate cancer. The only drug that belongs to this class is “sipuleucel-T,” anautologous, personalized cellularimmunotherapy(a type of vaccine) created...
or umbilical cord blood of the above products), cancer vaccines and immunotherapy products (such as dendritic cell vaccine, activation of T and B lymphocytes, monocytes, modified or unmodified version of the cancer cells), allograft islet...
BCG(bacillusCalmette-Guérin) live bacterial vaccine that protects againsttuberculosis(TB) is also used asimmunotherapyin treatingbladdercancer. The vaccine stimulates the immune system to attack the cancer cells. BCG vaccine is derived fromMycobacteriumboviswhich is similar toMycobacterium tuberculosisthat ...