Re: Shelagh and all - experimental treatment in resistant thyca

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This is exciting! Still in clinical trials?

When will this be released?

> ... from Oncology News ....

>

> Xyotax Achieves Good Results in Chemo-Resistant Cancers June 21,

2002

>

> At the Second European Spring Oncology Conference in Marbella,

Spain, M.

> Skubitz, MD, professor of oncology at the University of Minnesota

Medical School,

> presented favorable data from an ongoing phase I clinical trial

evaluating several

> combinations of Cell Therapeutics' polyglutamate paclitaxel

(Xyotax) and cisplatin in

> patients with ovarian, uterine, and thyroid cancers and

chondrosarcoma who had

> relapsed after prior chemotherapy. Disease was controlled in 10 of

11 patients, with 5

> achieving a major objective response and the other 5 stable disease.

>

>

> http://www.cancernetwork.com/news/archive/020621k.htm