Sunday, 29 June 2014

Survival Chances Improved Through TAS-102 in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Refractory to Standard Therapies

Patients whose metastatic colorectal cancer is refractory to standard therapies benefit from a new combination agent TAS-102 after it was found to improve the overall survival compared to placebo, a new study presented at the ESMO 16th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona reveals. "Around 50% of patients with colorectal cancer develop metastases but eventually many of them do not respond to standard therapies," said Takayuki Yoshino of the National ...

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