Desmoid tumors are benign growths that develop in the connective tissues inside the body. Though they’re not considered cancerous, they can be invasive and grow into other, nearby parts of the body.

A tumor is a growth of tissue that happens when cells in your body grow and divide at a faster rate than they would normally. When we think of tumors, we often think of cancer. However, not all tumors ...

Desmoid tumors are rare, locally aggressive, highly recurrent soft-tissue tumors without approved treatments. We conducted a phase 3, international, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial ...

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Mrinal M. Gounder, MD, a sarcoma oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and lead investigator of the phase 3 DeFi trial of nirogacestat in desmoid tumors, discusses the drug's recent FDA ...

Nirogacestat significantly improved PFS compared with placebo among patients with progressing desmoid tumors, according to phase 3 study results presented at ESMO Congress. Perspectives from Andrew S.

Brooke was only three years old when she first learned about desmoid tumors. “My mother had six or seven,” she recalls. Brooke’s mother also had 28 surgeries related to her desmoid tumors and multiple ...