Health and Fitness

FDA Approves New Treatment for Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Priority review completed one month ahead of goal date

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 27, 2012. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Stivarga (regorafenib) to treat patients with colorectal cancer that has progressed after treatment and spread to other parts of the body (metastatic).

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Stivarga is a multi-kinase inhibitor that blocks several enzymes that promote cancer growth. The drug was reviewed under the FDA’s priority review program that provides an expedited six-month review for drugs…

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