Jan 10, 2011

Clinical trials for mesothelioma

Clinical studies will be staged for the benefit of medical research but is also a condition for approval of new drugs or the use of the new treatment of existing drugs by the FDA. The study is divided into Phase I, Phase II and III stage of the proceedings. This is a phase III study conducted in groups of people to "determine effectiveness.

Normally there are several mesothelioma clinical trials, which occur at certain times, which is active in more than one location. It is not easy for patients with mesothelioma to participate in a position in a research project in depth, recruitment usually takes place in several locations is carried out. Many of these studies, which marketed the use of pemetrexed, under the name of ALIMTA. This is the only medication FDA approved for the treatment of Mesothelioma and are frequently used in patients not candidates for surgery. Many clinical studies have been performed using anti-cancer drug pemetrexed and effectivechemotherapy, cisplatin in particular .

However, clinical studies continue to choose not only chemotherapy, but the design of new treatments such asimmunotherapy.

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