Arsenic-Based Therapy Benefits Leukemia Patients.(Brief Article)

FDA Consumer | January 1, 2001 | Copyright

A new arsenic-based drug may benefit some leukemia patients for whom standard therapy has failed. The Food and Drug Administration approved Trisenox (arsenic trioxide) to treat patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) who have not responded to, or have relapsed after the use of, trans-retinoic acid and anthracyline-based chemotherapy, which is considered the first-line therapy. Trisenox was approved for marketing only three years after the study of the drug first started in the United States--the fastest development of any cancer therapy.

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