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#37356 04-29-2004 03:23 PM | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 Gold Member (200+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 | I was just watching the news and Dana Farber has a new cancer drug that they are testing and it has shown very promising results in about 15% of lung cancers. They are going to start trying to see if it will work for head and neck cancers. The drug is Iressa, known generically as gefitinib. It just came out all over the news about an hour ago. Just thought I would share with you guys!
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#37357 04-29-2004 03:38 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | There have been many clinical studies done on gefitnib and several phase II trials. Here is a couple going now: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00068497?order=23 http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00024089?order=16 Ed
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#37358 04-30-2004 12:12 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 153 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 153 | an interesting thing about the report that i saw is that the drug works for folks with a particular genitic marker.
so it would seem that they can test someone to see what the likelyhood of success is...
and the genitic marker thing is new, so it may led to ways improved drugs and their use.
we love it,
cu,
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