Showing posts with label vemurafenib.skin cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vemurafenib.skin cancer. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Drug shows promise as skin cancer treatment

In continuation of my update on Vismodegib

Drug shows promise as skin cancer treatment: A new vismodegibdrug for a type of skin cancer caused by a rare genetic disease can not only substantially shrink the tumors, but can also prevent the growth of new cancers, US investigators have discovered.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Skin cancer drug, vemurafenib may prolong survival in advanced cases: Study

In continuation of my update on vemurafenib...

According to an international study a new treatment for advanced skin cancer almost doubles survival times. Researchers say 132 patients in the U.S. and Australia who were given the drug vemurafenib gained several extra months of life. The treatment is one of two drugs for late-stage melanoma, approved on fast-track in the US last year, which offer hope for patients with advanced melanoma. Vemurafenib is suitable for about half of patients with advanced melanoma as it targets tumors that express a certain gene mutation. Before that, there had been no new drugs for the cancer for more than a decade...