EAU recommendation closely follows EU marketing authorization for Sutent
Berlin, March 22 – Sutent® (sunitinib malate) has received a European Association of Urology (EAU) recommendation, as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma of good and intermediate risk, just two months after gaining EU marketing authorization for first line use in all patients with advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).1 These new EAU guidelines, issued today in Berlin, put Sutent®, the first multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor to be approved in the EU for first-line use in mRCC, at the forefront of drug therapy for this devastating condition.
Sunitinib malate is an oral therapy belonging to a new class of dual-action multi-targeted drugs that attack cancer by inhibiting tumor growth and starving the tumor of blood, thereby reducing its ability to continue to divide and grow.
"There is strong clinical evidence to support the use of sunitinib malate to achieve significantly better progression free survival than was possible with previous standard of care therapy, interferon-alpha (IFNα). The 1st line recommendation of sunitinib malate in the EAU Guidelines is an important step forward in ensuring that this exciting new treatment option becomes a new standard of care in mRCC therapy across Europe", said Prof. Kurt Miller, member of the executive board of the German Working Group for Urological Cancer (AUO) and Head of Department of Urology, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/r-saf032207.php
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