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Cetuximab Fails to Add Benefit to Frontline Therapy for Metastatic CRC
Cetuximab Fails to Add Benefit to Frontline Therapy for Metastatic CRC
N Osterweil
20100529
2010 Jun 29
Elsevier Global Medical News
Cetuximab Fails to Add Benefit to Frontline Therapy for Metastatic CRC
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Jun 29, N Osterweil
CHICAGO (EGMN)-Cetuximab did not improve overall or progression-free survival when it was added to frontline oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer, according to investigators from the U.K. National Cancer Research Institute."Here's a negative study that ran contrary to what we expected and to what the community expected," said Dr. Timothy S. Maughan, principal investigator for the randomized, phase III COIN trial, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical...