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Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of Cancer Therapy

Published in Cardiovascular Business Week, January 10th, 2006

Cancer Therapy data are the focus of recent research from Switzerland, Italy and Taiwan.

Study 1: Anthracyclines plus fluoropyrimidines were well tolerated and active in advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients.

"The efficacy and safety of prolonged fluoropyrimidines, either intravenously or orally, prompted their integration with taxanes and anthracyclines in the treatment of ABC. We conducted three subsequent dose-finding studies on first-line chemotherapy in ABC with anthracyclines, either epirubicin (E) or doxorubicin (A), and docetaxel (T), both given on days 1 and 8 every 3 weeks, plus continuous infusion (CI) 5-fluorouracil (F) or capecitabine...

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