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- noun A particular
drug used inchemotherapy .
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- noun antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies
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All patients received autologous transplantation following a high dose of a drug called melphalan, which is commonly used to treat multiple myeloma.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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A chemotherapy medicine called melphalan is used to treat patients, but carries serious side effects.
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A chemotherapy medicine called melphalan is used to treat patients, but carries serious side effects.
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"There is a clearly a significant benefit for using bortezomib, melphalan and prednisone up front," San Miguel said.
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Takeda had previously reported that after five years of follow-up patients who received Velcade plus the chemotherapy drug melphalan and the steroid prednisone on average lived 13.3 months longer than those who got only melphalan and prednisone
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Higgins continued, In addition, during the past quarter we announced positive data for our SARM and melphalan programs, and we expanded our Captisol
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Ligand announced its strategic decision to internally advance development of its Captisol-enabled melphalan program with the current goal to file a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by mid-2013 if the development is successful.
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In this mNET cohort, 24 patients with unresectable mNET in the liver underwent an average of three chemosaturation procedures with concentrated melphalan and subsequent extra-corporeal venous hemofiltration.
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Ligand presented interim data from a Phase IIa study with its Captisol-enabled, propylene glycol-free melphalan program in a poster presentation at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago.
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"This combination of bortezomib, melphalan and prednisone indicates that it is a clear standard of care for treatment of myeloma patients," San Miguel said, careful to add that it would not be the only standard of care.
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