Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Reports from various sources

*In Metastatic Renal cell cancer :  Sutent Response rate was 38%
with median response duration 53 weeks
most of the responses were observed in 12 weeks (European Journal)

*In Metastatic HER-2 positive Breast cancers, Adding chemotherapy to Herceptin increases the response Rate from 15-26% to 60-70%, weekly Taxol +/- Carboplatin is one of the option aside from Vinorelbie and Taxotere with improvement of both the one year and overall survival!

*Lapatinib, a dual EGFR-1 and Her-2 Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor, when combined to Capecitabine only increase  (more likely double) for sure progression free survival.  The overall survival could not be proven because of cross-over! (ASCO)

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