Roche’s Avastin Shows Mixed Results in Glioblastoma

Posted: November 20th, 2012  |  Company/topic: Roche
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A new study of Roche's Avastin has shown the drug can extend progression-free survival (PFS) by more than four months when added onto standard therapy for an aggressive form of brain cancer. The AVAgl…
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Two drugs are better than one GSK’s melanoma combo improves PFS at Phase II

Posted: October 1st, 2012  |  Company/topic: GlaxoSmithKline
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Combining two novel GlaxoSmithKline drugs the selective BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib and the selective MAPK kinase MEK inhibitor trametinib significantly improved progressionfree survival in a Phase II s…
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Roche’s phase III AVAglio study meets coprimary endpoint of significantly improving PFS in people with glioblastoma

Posted: August 11th, 2012  |  Company/topic: Roche
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Roche has reported that the phase III AVAglio study of Avastin plus radiation and temozolomide chemotherapy in people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma met its coprimary endpoint of a significant impr…
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