Study Group: Oncologists in Private Practice in the U.S.(?)

The public benefits when new uses are found for old drugs.  The benefit comes more quickly as the pharma company does not need to go through as many early studies to allow the approval for the drug use. However, I believe that pharma realizes that new uses for old drugs is not the way...

Use of Epo Stimulating Agents (ESAs) for cancer patients have all but come to a screeching halt when a plattoon of studies came out suggesting that ESAs might actually cause more harm, notably by possibly acting as a growth factor for tumor cells.  Now, reserachers are trying to determine...

Transgene's TG4010 vaccine has a fairy elegant two-gene design.  It appears to add benefit to a standard chemo regimen in this good-sized, randomized Phase II study for advanced lung cancer.  More mature survival data will be ready by year's end.  Phase III study is being planned.  ...

Adding novel biologic agents (such as ASA404) to traditional chemotherapy is a very hot trend in cancer research.  The data from Antisoma's lung cancer study are certainly intriguing, but again, phase II, and retrospective. 

While chemo plus Avastin is the standard of care for first treatment of advanced colon cancer, chemotherapy alone is used for most early colon cancer. This large study demonstrates the relative safety of adding Avastin to chemo in the early - adjuvant – setting.