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an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug

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(1) Israel has strengths in novel biology and targets and Israeli institutions have discovered several innovative drugs such as copaxone, azilect and doxil, apart from producing five Nobel laureates since 2000.
This trial will provide a starting dose for a follow-on Phase I/II study combining GEN-1 with Avastin and Doxil.
But also that year, the agency turned to Sun Pharma for help when a shortage of J&J's ovarian cancer drug Doxil materialized when the Boehringer Ingelheim plant that was the exclusive producer ran into FDA issues of its own.
Dose escalation and pharmacokinetics of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil) in children with solid tumors: a pediatric oncology group study.
(1) Over the next year and a half, after receiving five Doxil (2) chemotherapy treatments at the Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston, Rebecca's cancer had weakened and her prognosis was positive.
The researchers based their nanoparticles on a Food and Drug Administration-approved form of the drug known as Doxil, which is packaged in a liposome, or fatty membrane.
SUN Pharmaceuticals founder Dilip Shanghvi has broken into the list of the top three richest Indians with a 66- per cent jump in wealth as the company's stock rose with the expected surge in sales in the US market of its anti- cancer drug Doxil.
(14.) Jakubowiak AJ, Al-Zoubi A, Kendall T, et al: High rate of completeand near complete responses (CR/nCR) after initial therapy with bortezomib (Velcade), Doxil and dexamthasone (VDD) is further increased after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT).
For ovarian cancers that have recurred, doctors may use the chemotherapy drugs topotecan (Hycamtin), liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil), etoposide (Etopophos, Vepesid), gemcitabine (Gemzar), vinorelbine (Navelbine), and/or cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), targeted agents such as bevacizumab (Avastin) and/or other drugs.
Sun Pharma was up 3.37 per cent after the drugmaker announced 31.87 per cent rise in Q3 net profit on Friday and also because the US health regulator approved the company's generic version of ovarian cancer drug, Doxil. Kishor P Ostwal, CMD, CNI Research said, "Indian market hit another low with unconvincing volumes.