Recent news on Cpt-11

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Funds Record Number of Research Programs  -  May 15, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),In addition, clinical trials for promising therapeutic regimens, such as the combination of Avastin and CPT-11, offer new hope for patients."

New Drug Therapy Holds Hope for Brain-Cancer Patients  -  Mar 7, 2007
WRAL.com,Vredenburgh included Tiffany in a 68-patient clinical trial for a type of chemotherapy called cpt-11 plus another drug called Avastin.

Data acquisition for the histoculture drug response assay in lung ...  -  Jan 31, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryA phase II study of CPT-11, a new derivative of camptothecin, for previously untreated non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol 1992;10:16-20.[Medline]

HealthNet offers hope to cancer patient  -  Feb 13, 2007
Connecticut Post,...surgeon Dr. Henry S. Friedman to present findings on how Avastin, coupled with another chemotherapy drug, CPT-11, affects people with brain cancer.

5AM Solutions Adds Dr. Dan Von Hoff to Advisory Board  -  Jan 31, 2007
Emediawire (press release),...docetaxel, gemcitabine, CPT-11, and others. At present, he and his colleagues are concentrating on the development of molecularly targeted therapies.

Genetically modified cells attack tumors  -  Dec 24, 2006
Hindu,Moreover, since the drug, called CPT-11 (irinotecan), is already used to treat cancers, doctors and scientists already know how the drug behaves in humans.

Anti-Cancer 'Smart Bomb' Homes in on Deadly Tumors  -  Dec 21, 2006
Haber Sağlık,..."CPT-11 is the drug that's used to treat kids today," Aboody said. "It goes throughout the body and only a very small percent of it reaches the tumors."

Drug, stem cells treat neuroblastoma  -  Dec 22, 2006
United Press InternationalThree days later the team injected the mice with CPT-11 (irinotecan), a human chemotherapy drug. The CPT-11 went to all parts of the animals' bodies,

Neural cells aid in healing tumors  -  Dec 23, 2006
Whittier Daily News,The stem cells carried the gene for a rabbit protein that made the chemotherapy drug CPT-11 a thousand times more potent, Aboody said.

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors  -  Dec 29, 2006
HappyNews.com,The cells produced an enzyme that activated the chemotherapy drug CPT-11 (irinotecan) at the site of the tumors. A report on this work appears in the Dec.

TAIWAN PHARMACEUTICAL FIRM WINS US PATENT FOR SN-38 PRODUCTION  -  Dec 22, 2006
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),SN-38, the active metabolite of irinotecan (CPT-11), is widely used by many new drug companies to develop new camptothecin derivatives.

US Patent Granted to ScinoPharm for the Production of SN-38  -  Dec 21, 2006
ag-IP-news Agency,According to a press release by the company, the irinotecan (CPT-11) is widely used by many drug companies to develop new camptothecin derivatives.

Genetically modified cells attack tumors  -  Dec 24, 2006
Hindu,Moreover, since the drug, called CPT-11 (irinotecan), is already used to treat cancers, doctors and scientists already know how the drug behaves in humans.

Genetically modified cells attack tumors  -  Dec 23, 2006
HULIQ,Moreover, since the drug, called CPT-11 (irinotecan), is already used to treat cancers, doctors and scientists already know how the drug behaves in humans.

Anti-Cancer 'Smart Bomb' Homes in on Deadly Tumors  -  Dec 21, 2006
Haber Sağlık,..."CPT-11 is the drug that's used to treat kids today," Aboody said. "It goes throughout the body and only a very small percent of it reaches the tumors."

Drug, stem cells treat neuroblastoma  -  Dec 22, 2006
United Press InternationalThree days later the team injected the mice with CPT-11 (irinotecan), a human chemotherapy drug. The CPT-11 went to all parts of the animals' bodies,

Neural cells aid in healing tumors  -  Dec 23, 2006
Whittier Daily News,The stem cells carried the gene for a rabbit protein that made the chemotherapy drug CPT-11 a thousand times more potent, Aboody said.

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors  -  Dec 23, 2006
Medical News Today (press release),The cells produced an enzyme that activated the chemotherapy drug CPT-11 (irinotecan) at the site of the tumors. A report on this work appears in the Dec.

TAIWAN PHARMACEUTICAL FIRM WINS US PATENT FOR SN-38 PRODUCTION  -  Dec 22, 2006
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),SN-38, the active metabolite of irinotecan (CPT-11), is widely used by many new drug companies to develop new camptothecin derivatives.

US Patent Granted to ScinoPharm for the Production of SN-38  -  Dec 21, 2006
ag-IP-news Agency,According to a press release by the company, the irinotecan (CPT-11) is widely used by many drug companies to develop new camptothecin derivatives.

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