Doctors had told her Avastin together with chemotherapy drug Taxol could prolong her life.
Putting chemotherapy drug Taxotere in the same sales force with Eloxatin would create a cancer powerhouse.
Kennedy likely will receive the chemotherapy drug Temodar during and after radiation, Brawley said.
SusanDesmond-HellmannSusan Desmond-Hellmann, Levinson's second-in-command, helped develop the chemotherapy drug Taxol at Bristol-Myers Squibb before coming to Genentech in 1995.
An initial human test of the combo--chemotherapy drug idarubicin and Millennium Pharmaceuticals' multiple myeloma drug Velcade--is under way at the University of Kentucky.
The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together.
The new study, called Emilia, involved about 1, 000 women with HER2-positive breast cancer who had been previously treated with Herceptin and a traditional chemotherapy drug.
They already have contributed to the development of the antibiotics erythromycin and tetracycline, the cancer chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, Wyeth's transplant drug Rapamune, and Merck's cholesterol-lowering medicine, Mevacor.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann , Levinson's second-in-command, helped develop the chemotherapy drug Taxol at Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) before coming to Genentech in 1995.
The market for Erbitux will likewise initially be limited to colon cancer patients whose disease has progressed despite treatment with the standard chemotherapy drug Camptosar, sold by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Every year, thousands of patients are harmed by accidents involving medical procedures - an example was the tragic case of Wayne Jowett, a teenager who died after having a powerful chemotherapy drug injected into his spine instead of a vein.
Monday night, Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) said its cancer drug Avastin extended the median survival of lung cancer patients by two months, or 23%, to 12.5 months, when added on top of Taxol, the off-patent chemotherapy drug developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
Medical experts consulted by The Associated Press have said the government's account of "systemic medical treatment" could mean various types of chemotherapy or drug treatments, depending on the type of cancer.
Medical experts consulted by The Associated Press have said the government's recent accounts of "systemic medical treatment" could mean various kinds of chemotherapy or drug treatments, depending on the type of cancer.
The latest iterations, "drug-eluting" stents, release a chemotherapy-type drug.
He said he did not use chemotherapy but a drug used for treating rheumatoid arthritis.
First, Merck announced that Emend, a new drug for chemotherapy-induced nausea, had been approved.
Chemotherapy, radiation and drug therapies often leave patients with nausea, diarrhea, constipation, mouth sores, taste alterations and unintentional weight loss.
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In contrast, an earlier trial testing of the drug with chemotherapy in colorectal cancer did seem to indicate a survival trend.
Clinical trials have suggested the combination of the drug and chemotherapy can increase patient's chances of a cure and may live longer than if they received chemotherapy alone.
Its lead drug to treat chemotherapy side effects failed, and the Bayer deal yielded nothing fast.
So far the drug has helped chemotherapy patients survive twice as long as did patients on chemo alone.
Some patients who were not helped by Velcade alone seemed to respond to a combination of the drug and traditional chemotherapy.
In Colorado last week a Safeway pharmacy gave a 17-year-old pregnant woman methotrexate, a drug used for chemotherapy and to induce abortion, instead of the antibiotic that had been prescribed.
Statistical rules aside, Provenge fans say, survival is awfully hard to fake, and desperate metastatic prostate cancer patients who would get Provenge have only one drug, the chemotherapy Taxotere, at their disposal.
Encouraging data are also expected this weekend for an approach in which potent doses of chemotherapy are linked to antibody drug such as Roche's Herceptin to deliver chemo more directly to the tumor like a guided missile, to reduce the toxic side effects of chemo.
They knew a drug called XR9576 could block P-glycoprotein and sensitise individual cancer cells to chemotherapy, but they did not know if the drug would be successful against whole tumours, which can be very difficult to treat.
Over the next two years, I had surgery, I received chemotherapy and I received the experimental drug.
This comes on top of less-than-positive results concerning a late-stage study of Erbitux, ImClone's multi-billion colorectal drug, combined with chemotherapy.
Mark Levin , Millennium's CEO, has said that Velcade could eventually become a blockbuster, but only after new data come in on using the drug in combination with chemotherapy for more common cancers.
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