SEJONG, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea in 2017, with heart-related illness second, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 285,534 South Koreans died in 2017, up 1.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. This is the largest death toll [...]
DENVER, Jul. 11, 2018 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) encourages all those involved in molecular testing of lung cancer patients to participate in a global survey designed to assess the implementation of best practices and ultimately develop worldwide guidelines for molecular testing. To take the IASLC Global [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The results of a new study show that cancer patients have a higher chance of contracting diabetes that non-patients. A joint team of researchers from the National Cancer Center and Samsung Medical Center revealed the results of the study today. A total of 500,000 samples were analyzed for the [...]
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — AstraZeneca and MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, today presented efficacy and safety data from two Phase I trials evaluating Imfinzi (durvalumab) in combination with tremelimumab in 2nd-line immunotherapy-naïve patients with either non-squamous advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Study 006) or metastatic urothelial carcinoma [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Samsung Bioepis Co. said Friday its biosimilar cancer drug Ontruzant has begun selling in Britain following approval from a European regulator. Global health care company MSD has begun distributing the biosimilar that references Switzerland-based Roche Holding’s Herceptin, also known as Trastuzumab, in the country, Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A report published by a demographics research institute run by NH Investment and Securities revealed South Korean parents with less education have more children, and cancer is the leading cause of death in the country. The findings showed that university graduates had on average 1.49 children, while high school [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Light drinking can raise the risk of cancers for Koreans who have less ability to perform enzymatic alcoholysis compared with Westerners, a local report said Tuesday. The report by Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, contradicts the established theory that light drinking can lower cardiovascular disease [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea in 2016, and fatalities from dementia doubled from a decade ago in line with the rapidly aging population, government data showed Friday. A total of 280,827 South Koreans died in 2016, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Competition for medical patients has gone up another notch as major hospitals are releasing advanced technological services to stay a step ahead of their competitors. According to industry sources, since April Hallym University Medical Center in Dongtan has revamped the existing model of providing medicine to patients in an effort to [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean government’s national health insurance reform, which will cover palliative care for an extended number of terminally ill patients from August, many fear the lack of hospice care infrastructure in the country will not live up to the expectations of ‘dying well’. Hospice care, which refers [...]