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Merck KGaA supports Get Tested colorectal cancer campaign

Coincides with the first World Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Day

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Lilly signs cancer pact with Chinese biotech

Marks first major deal between a Western pharma company and a Chinese biotech

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NICE system ‘slowing market access to cancer meds’

Two new reports show that UK access to new treatments and survival rates among lowest in Europe

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Cancer Drugs Fund a ‘missed opportunity’, says MP

Chair of the Liberal Democrat health committee Paul Burstow says the CDF should have gone further

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Cancer Drugs Fund cull ‘won’t save NHS money’

New survey also finds that oncologists believe the cuts will ‘worsen patient outcomes’

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Opdivo gains new US lung cancer licence

Adds to Bristol-Myers Squibb’s therapeutic vaccine’s melanoma indication

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AbbVie to acquire cancer biopharma Pharmacyclics for $21bn

Comes six months after the US firm pulled out of a $54bn deal with Shire

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BMS buys immunotherapy specialist Flexus in $1.2bn deal

And signs new cancer research partnership with Rigel

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Half a million cancer patients in EU use targeted drugs

New data also shows breast and lung cancers are among the most treated in Europe

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Roche acquires cancer biobank firm Signature Diagnostics

Marks Swiss firm's fifth deal this year to expand its molecular diagnostics business

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CDF chair regrets undermining NICE

But Prof Clark says he wholeheartedly supports the Institute

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EU approval for Lilly’s Cyramza in stomach cancer

Follows shortly after the drug's US approval in non-small cell lung cancer

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