Metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who received a targeted pill from Revolution Medicines lived nearly twice as long as patients who received chemotherapy, a striking result in a notoriously deadly and intractable malignancy.
Patients who took the daily pill, called daraxonrasib, lived a median of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months for patients who received chemotherapy.
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It’s “very impressive,” said Benjamin Weinberg, an associate professor of medicine at Georgetown University who was not involved in the study, in an email.
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