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Colon Cancer
Clinical Trial Promotes New Standards for Colorectal Cancer Treatment
November 15th, 2009
In a review article published this month in The Oncologist, UNC's Dr. Richard M. Goldberg and a team of colleagues catalogue how the data collected in a single large comparative clinical trial testing combination chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer has been used not only to benefit the patients that enrolled but also patients who subsequently developed the disease. It has also helped to refine the clinical trials process and move forward the potential for individualized therapy for patients. These benefits of this collaboration between patients, physicians across the U.S. and Canada, the National Cancer Institutes of the U.S. and Canada, and two pharmaceutical...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2009-11-15)
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