Re: Sutent -- new drug for rare type of intestinal cancer

November 7, 2005

How I wish so much that God would let us find a cure for all this and

end this horrible suffering. Ingrid

>

> Delaying progression of intestinal cancer

> Sat 05 Nov 2005 01:58 PM CST

> WASHINGTON (myDNA News)

>

> A new drug, Sutent, has been shown to dramatically delay the

> progression of a rare type of intestinal cancer in patients whose

> tumors have outsmarted other drugs.

>

> Conventional chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells and often damages

> healthy tissue.

>

> Sutent belongs to a new class of cancer drugs that target multiple

> tumor activities at once. It seems to shrink tumors by blocking

> their blood flow and impeding the signals that tell the cancer

cells

> to grow and spread.

>

> It was tested on gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients for

> whom other drugs did not work.

>

> In the study, Sutent delayed the time to progression of the tumor

by

> more than 20 weeks, but it is still too early to tell if the

> treatment is saving lives.

>

> Research on Sutent was presented this week at the European Cancer

> Conference in Paris.

>

> nt.html

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