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Systemic Therapy Defined

Treatment using substances that travel through the bloodstream, reaching and affecting cells all over the body.

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Gleevec receives FDA priority review for gastrointestinal stromal tumors after surgery

Published August 27, 2008, 3:12 pm, News-Medical-Net

Novartis has announced that Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) tablets, (known as Glivec (imatinib) outside the US, Canada and Israel), has been granted priority review status by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the first therapy to be reviewed for use after surgery in kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).

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Gleevec Receives FDA Priority Review as First Therapy to Reduce Recurrence of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors After ...

Published August 27, 2008, 4:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Novartis announced today that Gleevec® tablets* has been granted priority review status by the US Food and Drug Administration as the first therapy to be reviewed for use after surgery in kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors .

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After Fits and Starts, New Hope for Psoriasis Patients

Published August 26, 2008, 12:36 pm, MedicineNet.com

Title: After Fits and Starts, New Hope for Psoriasis Patients Category: Health News Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008

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New Trial To Evaluate Nexavar® As Adjuvant Therapy In Liver Cancer

Published August 26, 2008, 6:15 am, Medical News Today

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the start of a Phase III study with Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets in liver cancer. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study is evaluating Nexavar as an adjuvant therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer.

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After Fits and Starts, New Hope for Psoriasis Patients

Published August 25, 2008, 10:58 am, ABC 7 El Paso

Psoriasis can be a maddening disease.  Patches of thick, inflamed skin are just one symptom of the disease that actually strikes the immune system.  Until recently, there was little that could be done about the systemic damage done by psoriasis.  

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After Fits and Starts, New Hope for Psoriasis Patients

Published August 25, 2008, 9:01 am, HealthDay via Yahoo! News

MONDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Psoriasis can be a maddening disease.

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Bayer And Onyx Begin Enrollment In STORM Trial Studying Nexavar As Adjuvant Therapy For Patients With Liver Cancer

Published August 22, 2008, 5:14 am, Medical News Today

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced the companies have begun enrolling patients in the STORM Sorafenib as Adjuvant Treatment in the Prevention of Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma trial.

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JCI table of contents: Aug. 21, 2008

Published August 21, 2008, 2:27 pm, EurekAlert!

( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published Aug. 21, 2008, in the JCI: "Antitumor effects are enhanced by inhibiting 2 pathways rather than 1"; "Molecular insight into one form of the bleeding disorder von Willebrand disease"; and "Insight into the physiologic role of the blood ...

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Bayer and Onyx Begin Enrollment in STORM Trial Studying Nexavar as Adjuvant Therapy for Patients With Liver Cancer

Published August 21, 2008, 5:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the companies have begun enrolling patients in the STORM Sorafenib as Adjuvant Treatment in the Prevention of Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma trial.

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Delcath Expands Phase III Trial for Metastatic Melanoma to Include Swedish Medical Center in Colorado

Published August 21, 2008, 5:00 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Delcath Systems, Inc. announced today that the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado, has joined Delcath's Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic melanoma in the liver. Swedish Medical Center is the ninth center to join this multi-center trial testing the Company's Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion (PHP) System for the isolated, high-dose delivery of the anti-cancer agent ...

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