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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

New pill helps double survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer

It is hoped the treatment could give cancer patients more time with loved ones (PA) - (PA Archive)

A once-daily pill helped almost double survival time for patients with an aggressive and advanced form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.

The drug also caused fewer side-effects, with experts hailing daraxonrasib as “landscape-changing” for people with the disease.

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