Bayer, Onyx liver cancer drug extends life 3 months
126276
A drug already used to treat kidney cancer became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a clinical trial, adding about three months to survival compared to a placebo, according to a study released on Monday.
419000
Nexavar successfully treats liver cancer -- just like it did six months ago.
704563
Genentech's cancer drug Avastin helped patients with advanced kidney cancer live twice as long as those on standard therapy alone, according to a study released on Saturday.
385311
Shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. plunged after it and partner Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. said Monday they will use ongoing late-stage clinical trial data to seek marketing approval of their kidney cancer
457732
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that accumulating evidence suggests a Bayer AG drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs.
138493
A drug now used to treat breast cancer could help men with advanced prostate cancer live longer, say scientists.
480137
The German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is no stranger to health and safety scares. Three years ago, it had to pull its cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol from the market and
240246
Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's cancer-fighting drug Gleevec can still help treat chronic myeloid leukemia even after five years of use, a new study showed on Wednesday.
16054
BEIJING -- Every few days, Houston businessman Richard Weissenborn receives injections of a radical new cancer drug at a hospital here.
702358
A pill that starves tumors of their  blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to  some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported  on Thursday.
229940
Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's  cancer-fighting drug Gleevec can still help treat chronic  myeloid leukemia even after five years of use, a new study  showed on Wednesday.
145479
Early-stage colon cancer patients treated with Eloxatin-based chemotherapy after their tumor had been removed by surgery survived longer than patients who had been on traditional chemotherapy care alone, French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis said.
634482
Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceutical Inc.'s key cancer drug Nexavar significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
730064
ImClone Systems Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. claimed Tuesday that the drug Erbitux improved the survival rate of patients with the most common type of lung cancer in a late-stage study. ImClone shares jumped 21 percent.
498476
Genentech Inc.  on Monday said its  colon cancer drug Avastin extended the life of patients when  used in combination with a chemotherapy regimen called FOLFOX4  more than the chemotherapy alone in a late stage clinical  trial.
638758
A pill that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported on Thursday.
575085
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT  - A drug being developed by  Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. shrank tumors in some  liver cancer patients and temporarily stabilized the disease in  others in a small clinical trial, the companies said on  Wednesday.