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...significant improvement over chemo alone for women with this awful form of breast cancer. The details of the study will be revealed by Slamon this Sunday at a meeting in Los Angeles of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Manufactured by Genentech under the name Herceptin, the drug is on a fast track for approval by the FDA, perhaps before year...
...Herceptin, if approved, will join the lymphoma drug Rituxan, also an antibody, as the first of the new gene-based therapies to make it to market. Rituxan, made by IDEC Pharmaceuticals, was approved late last year...
They get access, that is, if there is enough of the drug to go around, and that's not always the case. Beth Nocera of Medford, Mass., a 41-year-old mother of two, has terminal metastatic breast cancer. Nocera wants to try Herceptin, an anticancer drug now in clinical trials. But Herceptin is expensive, and the manufacturer, Genentech, isn't making much beyond what it needs for testing. It currently gives the extra Herceptin to a limited number of women, chosen at random by a computer, and Nocera's number hasn't come up yet. "My fear," she says...