MarketWatch ... owing to the launch and rapid uptake of three high-priced agents--Celgene/Taiho's Abraxane, Onconova Therapeutics/Baxter International/SymBio Pharmaceuticals' Estybon and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals' MM-398 (a novel formulation of irinotecan ). and more »
NASDAQ SN-38 is the active form of, and about three orders of magnitude more potent than, irinotecan or CPT-11,an FDA-approved drug for metastatic colorectal cancer treatment. The powerful cancer drug cannot be administered systemically to patients because of ...
Wall Street Journal Vectibix was approved in the U.S. in September 2006 as a single agent for the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma with disease progression on or following fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin and irinotecan chemotherapy regimens. Approval is based on ...
4-traders (press release) "In colorectal cancer, we plan to present final data from our Phase 2 trial of tivantinib in combination with irinotecan and cetuximab at the ASCO Annual Meeting in June," said Mr. Pucci. "The presentation will include mature overall survival data from ...
Business First of Buffalo It led to initiation of trials being conducted with oral formulations of widely-used cancer drug Paclitaxel, called Oraxol, currently in Phase II clinical trials in gastric cancer patients in Korea, and Irinotecan (Oratecan), which has completed a ...
Business Wire (press release) “In colorectal cancer, we plan to present final data from our Phase 2 trial of tivantinib in combination with irinotecan and cetuximab at the ASCO Annual Meeting in June,” said Mr. Pucci. “The presentation will include mature overall survival data from ... and more »
PR Web (press release) Treatment with neoadjuvant 5-FU, oxaliplatin, irinotecan , and leucovorin (FOLFIRINOX) followed by chemoradiation shows substantial activity in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, with conversion to surgical resectability with curative ... and more »
Monthly Prescribing Reference Vectibix, a human anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibody is approved for the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma wi...
Healio Patients assigned to arm A (n=70) received cetuximab and chemotherapy (fluorouracil, leucovorin and irinotecan or modified fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin). Patients assigned to arm B (n=68) received chemotherapy alone. The rate of conversion ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) ... well-known and has been used by the medical community for decades; however the linker has broad potential utility with proven affinity to couple with multiple chemotherapeutic agents including paclitaxel, docetaxel, cisplatin, irinotecan and ... and more »
