clinical trial
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AstraZeneca AZN -0.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle said its new breast-cancer pill missed the key goal of slowing the disease from worsening in a late-stage clinical trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Danish drugmaker said the clinical trial met its primary goal after 68 weeks of treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Based on the early-stage findings, Sylvester is now advancing a neoadjuvant clinical trial that will combine IL1RAP targeted treatment with chemoimmunotherapy in patients with operable pancreatic cancers prior to surgery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
"It shouldn't ever be misconstrued as clinical trial data, or double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed data. It is just meant as a starting point to be able to garner support for future studies."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Their fifty-three patients were, in effect, a clinical trial, and an astonishingly successful one.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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