{"id":120729,"date":"2026-08-24T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=120729"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:25:40","slug":"ribociclib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ribociclib\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribociclib"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ribociclib Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kerala High Court recently allowed a breast cancer patient to be impleaded in a petition considering the issue of the \u2018exorbitant\u2019 price of \u2018life-saving\u2019 breast cancer medication, Ribociclib. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ribociclib<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>anticancer medicine used in combination with other medicines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to treat certain types of <\/span><b>breast cancer.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>belongs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to a <\/span><b>group of drugs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called <\/span><b>CDK 4\/6 (cyclin-dependent kinase) inhibitors.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These drugs <\/span><b>block the action of kinase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is a<\/span><b> protein that helps cells to grow and divide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><b>This stops the growth and spread of cancer.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a treatment for breast cancer that has:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spread to another part of the body (advanced or metastatic breast cancer)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spread to the area and structures surrounding the breast, such as nearby lymph nodes, muscle, and skin, but not to other parts of the body<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(locally advanced breast cancer)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ribociclib is <\/span><b>always given alongside a hormone therapy drug <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to treat breast cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Since the growth of normal cells may also be affected <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the medicine, other <\/span><b>unwanted effects <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will also occur. Some of these may be serious and must be reported to your doctor. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/kerala-hc-allows-breast-cancer-patient-to-be-impleaded-in-case-on-exorbitant-prices-of-medicines\/article71381039.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribociclib is an anticancer medicine used in combination with other medicines to treat certain types of breast cancer. 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