Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that more than 20 studies evaluating the use of Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets will be presented at the 35th European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress, October 8-12, 2010 in Milan, Italy.
"It's been almost five years since the approval of Nexavar in its first indication, advanced kidney cancer, and since that time the continuum of development in other areas has produced clinically significant findings, leading to a second approval in unresectable liver cancer," said Dimitris Voliotis, Vice President, Global Clinical Development Oncology, Bayer HealthCare. "Our dedication to the development of Nexavar is demonstrated by the array of data being presented at this year's ESMO Congress as well as the ongoing clinical trial program evaluating Nexavar in a variety of treatment settings and patient types."
Nexavar's Differentiated Mechanism
Nexavar, an oral anti-cancer therapy, is currently approved in more than 95 countries for liver cancer where it remains the only approved systemic agent proven to extend survival and in more than 95 countries for the treatment of patients with advanced kidney cancer. Nexavar inhibits processes involved in both the tumor cell and tumor vasculature. In preclinical studies, Nexavar has been shown to inhibit members of two classes of kinases thought to be involved in both cell proliferation (growth) and angiogenesis (blood supply) – two important processes that enable cancer growth. These kinases included Raf kinase, VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, VEGFR-3, PDGFRB, KIT, FLT-3 and RET.
Nexavar is also being evaluated by the companies, international study groups, government agencies and individual investigators.
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