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First-Of-Its-Kind Surgery Uses Eye Socket To Remove Spinal Cancer

TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 — A first-of-its-kind surgery has gone through a young woman's eye socket to remove a cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine. Surgeons threaded a thin lighted tube called an e...

FDA Approves Xermelo (telotristat ethyl) as First and Only Oral Treatment for Carcinoid Syndrome Diarrhea in Cancer Patients with Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

The Woodlands, Texas, February 28, 2017 – Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xermelo (telotristat ethyl) 250 mg ...

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