Information on a cancer drug called SUPENT?!
Question:
Information on a cancer drug called SUPENT?
General information, or direct me to relevant websites please
Answers:
The drug is marketed as Sutent (Sunitinib). It is an oral, small-molecule, multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor. If you can figure 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 known if the drug will improve symptoms or help the patient live longer.
2. gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) - this drug is used when the drug, Gleevec, no longer works for patient.
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 hand information on the efficacy of Sutent for GIST patients:
http://www.gistsupport.org/treatments/cu...