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2002 FEB 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Decision Resources, Inc., announces the publication of "Pancreatic Cancer," a new study that evaluates the current status of, and future prospects for, therapies to treat this highly virulent cancer.
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a biologically complex disease that is highly resistant to treatment. For more than 80% of patients with pancreatic cancer, no effective treatment exists, and few patients with advanced stage disease are alive after one year. Therefore, any well-tolerated, efficacious therapy would encounter few obstacles on its way to market penetration.
Experts contacted by Decision Resources consider therapeutic vaccines and epidermal growth factor (EGF) inhibitors, particularly receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, to be the most promising approaches now under investigation.
Therapeutic vaccines and EGF inhibitors are being evaluated in Phase III trials. Decision Resources (DR) believes that these trials will show that these agents improve survival rates and carry very little toxicity, and DR thus anticipates that they will, upon approval, rapidly become ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Report Evaluates Emerging Therapies.(Brief Article)