Drug that helps metastatic colon cancer of no benefit in less advanced tumors
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
To the surprise of researchers at Mayo Clinic who led a national clinical trial, a targeted therapy that provides benefit to patients with metastatic colon cancer has failed to help patients with less advanced, stage III cancer. In fact, patients who used the agent, cetuximab, with chemotherapy had outcomes slightly inferior to patients treated with chemotherapy alone.