Friday 29 January 2016

Halaven approved for advanced soft tissue cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Halaven for advanced liposarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer.  As the first chemotherapy drug shown to improve survival, Halaven was administered to 140 patients with liposarcoma in clinical studies; average survival period was 15.6 months compared to 8.4 months for those who were administered another chemotherapy drug.

To read more about this study, click here.

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