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Erbitux Gets Response with Colorectal Cancer Biomarker

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

ImClone Systems’ data from the Phase II OPUS study show that the addition of Erbitux to Folfox chemotherapy significantly improves both response rate and progression-free survival over Folfox alone in the first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients whose tumors do not have mutations of the K-Ras oncogene (K-Ras wild-type).     The randomized first-line Phase II study of 337 patients compared Erbitux plus Folfox to Folfox alone in epidermal growth factor recepto...

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