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Oral version of Octreotide using RaniPill™

09Feb 2020 by Ronny Allan 3 Comments

Oral Octreotide using RaniPill™

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email Credit: Rani Therapeutics Update 4th May 2021According to Fierce Biotech, Rani Therapeutics has secured $69 million in new funding to move forward with the manufacturing and clinical testing of its “robotic pill”—a small, swallowable capsule that promises to shepherd more delicate drugs past the stomach before releasing them into the bloodstream.The pill aims to make it easier for a patient to take therapies that typically require an injection or infusion, including treatments for diabetes, arthritis and other diseases.Currently, the Fierce 15 winner is working with drugmakers Novartis and Takeda to transform their liquid injections into solid pillsRani Therapeutics, a leader in oral biologics, has announced positive results from the Phase…

04Apr 2016 by Ronny Allan 3 Comments

Somatostatin Analogues and delivery methods in the pipeline

Awareness, Clinical Trials, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email This is my live blog post covering new developments in the area of new Somatostatin Analogues and new delivery systems. Abstract As most of you will be aware, there are currently two main types of Somatostatin Analogues (SSA) in use for the treatment of mainstream Neuroendocrine Tumours (NETs) - Octreotide and Lanreotide. You can click on the links for information on both of these well-known NET treatments. This post will focus on the not so well known and anything in the pipeline including different delivery systems. Those who have read the Octreotide/ Lanreotide patient leaflets will know those SSAs are also used in the treatment of a condition known as…

Whenever I post about a new trial or study, some people get excited without understanding that these new treatments and capabilities can very often take years to come to fruition and it’s also possible that clinical trials can be halted, or that national approval agencies will not approve the final product. Please bear that in […]

Blog review and top 10 for 2021: RonnyAllan.NET

I should be happy with over a quarter of a million views in 2021 but I’m not! Like 2020, my figures are down on previous years as the pandemic seems to have changed viewing habits, not to mention my own bandwidth during this period. I created my private Facebook group not that long before the […]

Neuroendocrine Cancer Diarrhea- building the jigsaw: Bile Acid Malabsorption

With Neuroendocrine Cancer patients, the mention of “diarrhea” is a topical subject. There’s the usual claim that it’s caused by carcinoid syndrome and for some that will be true, particularly people who have tumours associated with that syndrome, that is, those who have mostly a midgut primary; and that is, those who mostly have elevated […]

177Lu-DOTA-LM3 – a novel radionuclide therapy proven safe and effective to treat neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN)

This is all the information available and further details to follow if any is published. Remember, this is not yet an approved treatment, nor is it widely available. Only ever used in experimental/compassionate situations. Not even entered the formal clinical trial system. So even if there was a plan to develop and deploy it (which […]

Small Intestine Neuroendocrine Tumours: “No other cancer really looks like this”

It’s known that Neuroendocrine Cancer is quite different in many ways from other cancers, notwithstanding the misnomer term carcinoid which is thankfully being slowly moved out of terminology. As a few examples: It’s a wide spectrum heterogeneous cancer group with indolent isolated small tumours at one end all the way across to extremely aggressive metastatic […]