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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.
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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