Thursday, November 5, 2009

ABRAXANE Receives Orphan Drug Status for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer and Stage IIB-IV Melanoma

Nov 5, 2009 - Abraxis BioScience, Inc., a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced that the Office of Orphan Products Development of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to the chemotherapy agent ABRAXANE® for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension) (albumin-bound) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer as well as stage IIB-IV melanoma.

The details can be read here.

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