FDA denies accelerated approval for ImmunoGen, Genentech potential breast cancer treatment
FDA denies accelerated approval for ImmunoGen, Genentech potential breast cancer treatment
WALTHAM, Mass. – Federal regulators have ruled that a potential breast cancer treatment from ImmunoGen failed to meet the standard for accelerated approval, the company said Friday.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Treatment Tags: Accelerated, Approval, breast, cancer, Denies, Genentech, ImmunoGen, Potential, Treatment
Supreme Court Denies Wyeth’s Request For New Trial In Hormone Replacement Therapy Case
Supreme Court Denies Wyeth’s Request For New Trial In Hormone Replacement Therapy Case
The Supreme Court on Monday denied Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ request for a completely new trial of a lawsuit that claimed the drugmaker’s hormone replacement therapy drugs led to the plaintiff’s breast cancer, the Wall Street Journal reports. The court let stand a lower court’s 2009 ruling that said Wyeth is entitled to a partial retrial to assess punitive damages awarded to plaintiff Donna …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Information Tags: case, court, Denies, Hormone, replacement, Request, Supreme, Therapy, Trial, Wyeth's
Clinic denies man breast cancer screening because he’s not a woman
Clinic denies man breast cancer screening because he’s not a woman
A man whose parents both had breast cancer and who developed the same worrisome symptoms as his dad was denied a mammogram at a local health clinic – because he’s a man.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Mammogram Tags: because, breast, cancer, Clinic, Denies, he's, Screening, Woman
Win for Wyeth in Hormone Therapy Case Upheld After Pa. High Court Denies Review
Win for Wyeth in Hormone Therapy Case Upheld After Pa. High Court Denies Review
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear the first hormone replacement therapy tort case to reach the state’s highest court, leaving intact a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of drugmaker Wyeth that wiped out a $3 million jury award for the plaintiff in 2007. The plaintiffs in the HRT litigation allege their breast cancer was caused by Wyeth’s and other drugmakers …
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