Bullet Blog #3: Fast Facts About Kevlar ®

Bullet Blog #3: Fast Facts About Kevlar ®

The Phase 2b clinical trial with RRx-001 (nibrozetone) against chemotherapy and radiation-induced severe oral mucositis (SOM), called KEVLARx, takes its name, obviously, from the bulletproof polymer called Kevlar® that was invented at DuPont™. The hope is that the...
Bullet Blog #2: Mouth or Mowth

Bullet Blog #2: Mouth or Mowth

How do you spell mouth? As above, right? Yes, unless you develop severe oral mucositis (SOM) from the treatment of head and neck cancer in which case that spelling – and pronunciation – definitively changes to “m-o-w-t-h”. The o-w is for OW!!!!! As in OW,...
Bullet Blog #1: Welcome Aboard the KEVLARx Bullet Train

Bullet Blog #1: Welcome Aboard the KEVLARx Bullet Train

The KEVLARx Bullet Train has finally left the station. Tickets please. Final destination: head-and-neck cancer with stops at several top-notch clinical trial sites and institutions along the way. These sites are the following, with more coming soon: The Ohio State...
EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Distaff

EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Distaff

“Distaff? What about datstaff?”         Distaff Definition (noun): a stick around which wool is wound for spinning. Definition (adjective): of or concerning women. Pronunciation: dist-aaf Example sentences: “Distaff is an old word that appears in...
The KEVLARx Bullet Train

The KEVLARx Bullet Train

All aboard the KEVLARx bullet train! Destination: head and neck cancer (HNC) without a stop, hopefully, at severe oral mucositis. En route over the following week, as a quick, handy reference, watch for a series of “bullet blogs” with fast facts on RRx-001...