Israeli Company Develops Device to Fight Tumor Growth with Electric Fields (Disclosure: Novocure is a sponsor of our organization)
We have talked a lot about this recently - I include this article because it points out that 2,000 patients have used it for gbms. That is a lot of experience. It also says that tumor treating fields are now being tried on ovarian and pancreatic cancer.
New clinical trial for Glioblastoma using immunotherapy This is an exciting new trial for gbm patients either at first recurrence or if there is residual tumor after the initial surgery and radiation. Patients must be EGFRviii positive. This type of treatment has shown fantastic results in other types of cancers and they are now trying it for GBM patients.
Quicker Access to Experimental Drugs Great news from the FDA. Now the problem becomes getting the drug manufacturers to allow us to get the drug and figure out how we are going to pay for them! But at least this removes a huge hurdle!
