oncology
2 entries tagged oncology. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2026
The First Blood Test for Fifty Cancers Reached the FDA Today. It Still Misses Most Early Ones
A tweet promoting a podcast with oncologist Azra Raza asks whether medicine should chase cancer's first cell instead of its last. The technology closest to doing that, GRAIL's Galleri blood test, had its first-ever FDA advisory panel hearing today. What it actually finds, what a 142,942-person trial found it missing, and how far Dr. Raza's own, more radical idea still has to go.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
Pancreatic Cancer Has a Drug That Works. Now the FDA Wants It Tried First
Three weeks after approving daraxonrasib for pancreatic cancer that has already been treated — the first drug to roughly double survival in that disease — the FDA gave it Breakthrough Therapy status for newly diagnosed patients, on top of chemotherapy. What the drug does, what the trials actually showed, what "breakthrough" legally means, and the $39,800-a-month company behind it.