Cancer Treatment

Data suggest Aranesp benefits certain cancer patients with anemia

Published in Blood Weekly, January 15th, 2004

Amgen (AMGN) announced interim data from a randomized, multicenter study that evaluates Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa), administered every 2 weeks in correcting anemia in cancer patients not undergoing chemotherapy, a condition known as anemia of cancer.

The results were presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting.

The interim analysis of the study's first 150 anemic cancer patients with a current diagnoses or history of a nonmyeloid malignancy shows that after 12 weeks of Aranesp treatment, the mean change in hemoglobin was 1.9 g/dL for the Aranesp group and 0.2 g/dL in the control group, which received standard care. The baseline...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-01-15)

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