Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Pfizer, Genentech Cancer `Cocktails' Overpower Stubborn Tumors in Tests

(Bloomberg) -- New cancer drugs from Pfizer Inc. and
Genentech Inc., tested together for the first time, raised each
medicine's tumor fighting power, researchers reported this week.

The therapy is heralding a new era in fighting cancer by
combining drugs that interfere with the biochemical pathways that
fuel cancer. By using Sutent, made by New York-based Pfizer, and
Avastin, from South San Francisco-based Genentech, researchers
say they achieved a 71 percent reduction in difficult-to-treat
kidney tumors in a small study.


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