General information, or direct me to relevant websites pleaseInformation on a cancer drug call SUPENT?
The drug is marketed as Sutent (Sunitinib). It is an oral, small-molecule, multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor. If you can numeral that one out!
It's one of the newer drugs that's been approved to treat two types of cancer:
1. advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) - it's not particular if the drug will improve symptoms or sustain the patient live longer.
2. gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) - this drug is used when the drug, Gleevec, no longer works for merciful.
Official Sutent [sunitinib mesylate] site:
http://www.sutent.com/
Wikipedia: Sunitinib (Sutent)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sunitinib...
FDA Approves New Treatment for Gastrointestinal and Kidney Cancer
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2006/...
The GIST support site has extensive first mitt information on the efficacy of Sutent for GIST patients:
http://www.gistsupport.org/treatments/cu...
You get more than 200 000 page if you type in Sutent. Try the medicine own site and Pfizer, who manfactures, fda.gov which has a merciful information sheet and nci.gov (fda=federal drug authority and nci= national cancer institute). You can read all the information in that.
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