A new cancer treatment is hailed as a breakthrough, but Canadians don’t have access to it. Here’s why
2026-07-14 from ctvnews.ca
A medical oncologist says a new pill for pancreatic cancer is the “biggest breakthrough” in treating the disease, but there are reasons why it isn’t available yet in Canada.
A U.S.-led study published in May had found that the experimental medication daraxonrasib had doubled the survival time of patients in a clinical trial.
“This is the first drug in a whole class of drugs that are being developed now that target a mutation in pancreas cancer called RAS,” Dr. Jennifer Knox, medical director of the pancreatic cancer clinic at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, told CTV Your Morning on Monday.
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