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Education as the solution to the rare disease ‘diagnostic odyssey’

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The Scleroderma Foundation, he explained, runs annual educational seminars for doctors across the US and Canada, and also publishes national and local newsletters to raise awareness. “But most doctors only study autoimmune diseases for two to three weeks during their studies, and scleroderma is just one of 200-odd autoimmune diseases.”.

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The evolution of durvalumab in NSCLC care

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Durvalumab is ‘promising step forward’ The latest approval from the MHRA is based on positive data from the AEGEAN Phase III trial in rNSCLC , which showed that durvalumab-based treatment before and after surgery reduced the risk of recurrence, progression events or death by 32% versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone.