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More than thirty years after President Nixon vowed to win the war on cancer, the battle rages on with no victor in sight. But that won't stop Big Pharma and biotechs alike from trying to entice investors next week with fresh reports on the hunt for a panacea.
Wyeth filed with the FDA an application for an experimental drug that would extend the life of terminally ill kidney cancer patients, the company said Friday.
Sutent, an anti-cancer drug from Pfizer that's been on the market just a few months, shrank tumors and stopped them from spreading in the lungs and kidneys of patients, according to studies unveiled this weekend.
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A SMALL COMPANY called Biotherapeutics Inc., in Franklin, Tennessee, opened a private front in the war against cancer three years ago. At that point the new cancer-killing wonder drug Interleukin-2...
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