How an East Bay cancer fighter — once kicked to the curb by Big Pharma — picked up its 4th drug approval

Even in the days after Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. threw an experimental cancer drug back to Exelixis Inc. nearly a decade ago, there were signs of hope: strong signals from a broad trial that tested the drug across nine tumor types. One of those signals was confirmed Monday as the Food and Drug Administration approved that drug — branded as Cabometyx — as one of a handful of options for people with the most common kind of liver cancer. It is the fourth FDA approval of "cabo" for Alameda-based…
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