India's patent office ordered Bayer, a German drugmaker, to license a cheaper version of Nexavar, an anti-cancer drug.
He also stressed that much more work would be needed before an anti-cancer drug could be used to treat pregnant women.
If patients fail one anti-cancer drug, it means their tumors are tough and are less likely to respond to any other.
This investment included marketing rights to Erbitux, an anti-cancer drug being developed by ImClone, but this drug failed to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Thanks to innovative chemical treatments, the ball serves as a cage that hides the enzyme from the immune system until it gets to its target tumor, where an anti-cancer drug is released.
The consortium is working with Chiron, a biotech firm, on an early-stage trial of a new anti-cancer drug, with several new centres and compounds expected to enter the network over the coming months.
According to Stephen Rosenfeld, a lawyer with the Prescription Access Litigation Project, which has launched a class-action suit against AstraZeneca and Barr Laboratories over Tamoxifen, an anti-cancer drug, delays to generic drugs mean that 42m Americans who lack health insurance pay a high price, and may not get essential medicines at all.
The idea of using a leukemia drug for stomach cancer, an anti-seizure drug for nerve pain, a cancer drug for gout all were impactful suggestions proposed by physicians or researchers outside the company developing the drug.
Generic competition on cancer treatment Taxol and anti-anxiety drug BuSpar is already dragging on sales.
Chief Executive StanleyCrookeStanley Crooke, 60, headed drug development at Smithkline Beckman and anti-cancer research at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Chief Executive Stanley Crooke , 60, headed drug development at Smithkline Beckman and anti-cancer research at Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
Apart from its anti-cancer drugs Fusilev and Zevalin, Spectrum has 10 other oncology drug candidates that are now in clinical development, two of them in phase 3 clinical trials and several undergoing phase 1 and 2 clinical studies.
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The focus must shift to newer drugs like Chantix, the most effective anti-smoking drug yet developed, and Pfizer's emerging pipeline of cancer drugs.
Scientists believe the drug may be particularly effective when used in combination with other anti-cancer treatments.
That was more than it was forecasting for Sutent, an innovative cancer pill, or Chantix, a first-of-its kind anti-smoking drug.
According to an AP report, the chemical keeps the drug combination intact until it binds to a cancer cell and delivers its anti-tumor cocktail.
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