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Celgene non-GAAP total revenue increases 40% to $1.11 billion

Celgene Corporation: “The results for the quarter were outstanding and they reflect the ongoing momentum that Celgene is creating as we leverage our business model and position our Company for long-term success”.

28 Apr 2011

Researchers begin approved drugs screening for clinical use against rare diseases

Researchers have begun screening the first definitive collection of thousands of approved drugs for clinical use against rare and neglected diseases. They are hunting for additional uses of the drugs hoping to find off-label therapies, for some of the 6,000 rare diseases that afflict 25 million Americans.

28 Apr 2011

Millennium submits two VELCADE sNDAs to FDA

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today announced that it has submitted two supplemental new drug applications (sNDAs) for VELCADE® (bortezomib) for Injection to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The first application seeks to add a subcutaneous route of administration for VELCADE. The second application is for the use of VELCADE in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

26 Apr 2011

Breakdown products of thalidomide cause birth defects: New study

Thalidomide may have been withdrawn in the early 1960s for use by pregnant women, but its dramatic effects remain memorable half a century later. Now, researchers have taken a major step toward understanding exactly how thalidomide causes the birth defects.

20 Apr 2011

BioSante, Aduro BioTech enter license agreement for GVAX cancer vaccines

Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, has licensed GVAX Pancreas Cancer Vaccine and GVAX Prostate Cancer Vaccine BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in exchange for milestone and royalty payments after commercialization.

19 Apr 2011

BioSante licenses Pancreas and Prostate cancer vaccines to Aduro BioTech

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has licensed its Pancreas Cancer Vaccine and Prostate Cancer Vaccine to Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, solely for use in combination with Aduro's proprietary vaccine platform based on Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).

19 Apr 2011

Japan Tobacco and Torii commence ferric citrate Phase 3 clinical program for hyperphosphatemia

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that its Japanese partner, Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., JT's pharmaceutical business subsidiary, has commenced the Phase 3 clinical program of ferric citrate in Japan for the treatment of patients with hyperphosphatemia.

18 Apr 2011

Pitt, UPCI researchers' cancer studies presented at AACR meeting

How do certain multiple myeloma treatment drugs cause complications? How does the immune system become dysfunctional due to cancer? How safe is a vaccine that could prevent development of precancerous colon polyps? Those are among the many questions that will be answered by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine during the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, April 2 to 6, in Orlando, Fla.

7 Apr 2011

Aeterna Zentaris presents AEZS-131 data against cancer at AACR meeting

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. today announced that a poster on its highly selective Erk 1/2 inhibitor anticancer compound, AEZS-131, was presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research currently held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

6 Apr 2011

Keryx KRX-0401 data in colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma presented at AACR meeting

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that two posters on KRX-0401 were presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research currently ongoing at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Perifosine, the Company's novel, potentially first-in-class, oral anti-cancer agent that inhibits Akt activation in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase pathway, is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials for refractory advanced colorectal cancer and multiple myeloma.

6 Apr 2011

Aeterna Zentaris presents two posters on perifosine at AACR meeting

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. today announced that two posters on its lead anticancer agent, perifosine, were presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research currently held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

5 Apr 2011

Synta presents ganetespib and elesclomol study data in cancer at AACR meeting

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. today presented five posters at the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting. Three posters reported results from studies of ganetespib, and two posters reported results from studies of elesclomol, a small-molecule mitochondria metabolism inhibitor.

5 Apr 2011

Risperdal Consta can reduce risk of hospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia

New data from an independent prospective study presented last week at the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry shows treatment with Risperdal Consta is associated with a lower risk of hospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia compared to treatment with other antipsychotics over a 12-month period.

5 Apr 2011

Array BioPharma to unveil new findings about its anti-cancer programs at AACR Annual Meeting

Array BioPharma Inc. today announced that five abstracts have been selected for presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, being held from April 2-6, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

2 Apr 2011

Thalidomide provides new hope for patients with difficult to treat liver cancer

Thalidomide has shown potential to be used as the first adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma, according to data presented at the International Liver Congress 2011.

2 Apr 2011

Report shows a continued decline in diagnoses, deaths for many types of cancers

Once again, the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer shows a continued decline in diagnoses and deaths for many types of cancers. This encouraging news can be attributed primarily to preventive measures such as cessation of smoking and improved diet, and early detection.

2 Apr 2011

EntreMed fourth quarter revenue is $3.7 million for fiscal year 2010

EntreMed, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today reported results for the three months and twelve months ended December 31, 2010.

30 Mar 2011

Keryx KRX-0401 trial data against colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma to be presented at AACR

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that two abstracts on KRX-0401 will be presented at the upcoming 102nd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research to be held in Orlando, Florida, from April 2-6, 2011.

29 Mar 2011

Onyx plans to expand carfilzomib Phase 3 European trial in patients with myeloma

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced its plans to expand the Phase 3 European clinical trial FOCUS, which is evaluating the efficacy and tolerability of carfilzomib, a selective next-generation proteasome inhibitor.

29 Mar 2011

CytRx to present bafetinib preclinical study results at AACR Annual Meeting

CytRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in oncology, today announced that results from a series of preclinical studies demonstrating that its oncology drug candidate bafetinib inhibits bone destruction in model systems is being presented on April 2, 2011 at the American Academy for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

29 Mar 2011

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Latest Multiple Myeloma News and Research

Celgene non-GAAP total revenue increases 40% to $1.11 billion

Researchers begin approved drugs screening for clinical use against rare diseases

Millennium submits two VELCADE sNDAs to FDA

Breakdown products of thalidomide cause birth defects: New study

BioSante, Aduro BioTech enter license agreement for GVAX cancer vaccines

BioSante licenses Pancreas and Prostate cancer vaccines to Aduro BioTech

Japan Tobacco and Torii commence ferric citrate Phase 3 clinical program for hyperphosphatemia

Pitt, UPCI researchers' cancer studies presented at AACR meeting

Aeterna Zentaris presents AEZS-131 data against cancer at AACR meeting

Keryx KRX-0401 data in colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma presented at AACR meeting

Aeterna Zentaris presents two posters on perifosine at AACR meeting

Synta presents ganetespib and elesclomol study data in cancer at AACR meeting

Risperdal Consta can reduce risk of hospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia

Array BioPharma to unveil new findings about its anti-cancer programs at AACR Annual Meeting

Thalidomide provides new hope for patients with difficult to treat liver cancer

Report shows a continued decline in diagnoses, deaths for many types of cancers

EntreMed fourth quarter revenue is $3.7 million for fiscal year 2010

Keryx KRX-0401 trial data against colorectal cancer, multiple myeloma to be presented at AACR

Onyx plans to expand carfilzomib Phase 3 European trial in patients with myeloma

CytRx to present bafetinib preclinical study results at AACR Annual Meeting

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