Abraxane: Breast Cancer Drug Approved by FDA to Treat Lung Cancer

Abraxane: Breast Cancer Drug Approved By FDA To Treat Lung Cancer

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Oct 12 (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Friday widened the approved use of Celgene Corp's breast cancer drug Abraxane to include treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer. Abraxane is currently approved to treat …
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Exclusive: Questionable data propped up cancer drug Provenge

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also stood by its April 2010 decision to approve the treatment. But the disclosure could mark another setback for Dendreon, whose market value has tumbled over 70 percent in the past eight months after …
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First gene therapy drug given European license

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… Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukaemia in 2002. In China, Shenzhen SiBiono GeneTech won approval for a gene therapy drug for head and neck cancer in 2003 but no products have …
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