Abraxis BioScience's Abraxane meets key treatment goal in lung cancer study
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Abraxis BioScience Inc. said Wednesday its drug Abraxane met key treatment goals in a late-stage lung cancer study.
The company said Abraxane with Taxol, in combination with chemotherapy, improved the overall response rate of patients in the 1,052 patient study. The study focused on patients receiving initial treatment for lung cancer and compared the Abraxane combination with patients only receiving Taxol and another chemotherapy, carboplatin.
Abraxane is already approved as a breast cancer treatment. The company expects to ask for FDA approval as a lung cancer treatment in 2011.
Shares of Abraxis jumped $12.77, or 32.1 percent, to $52.62 in morning trading. The stock has traded between $24.52 and $57.60 over the last 52 weeks
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The Post and Courier: Cigarette tax increase a winner
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Letter to the Editor
The South Carolina state Senate can play a pivotal role in improving critical health concerns by passing legislation to increase our state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to at least a dollar a pack. Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death in this state.
It costs each household in South Carolina an estimated $560 annually for smoking-caused government expenditures, regardless of whether a household member smokes.
We all know health care costs from smoking are enormous, in tax dollars and medical costs. Often overlooked is the personal cost of lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease to those stricken and to their families, friends and co-workers. Almost everyone has had that experience.
H.3584, legislation to increase our seven-cent cigarette tax, was sent to the Senate nearly a year ago. Our state is contemplating deep budget cuts with severe consequences that will affect many of our citizens. Increasing the cigarette tax will reduce overall smoking (and youth initiation to smoking) while raising state revenues at the same time. Bringing H.3584 to a vote in the Senate cannot come soon enough.
A significant cigarette tax increase is a win-win-win solution for South Carolina. It is a public health win that will reduce smoking and save lives, a fiscal win that will raise needed revenue and reduce smoking-caused health care costs, and a political win because raising cigarette taxes has the strong support of the public.
How many reasons do we need?
June Deen
Director of Advocacy
American Lung Association in South Carolina and Georgia
Gadsden Street
Columbia
This letter was also signed by: Nancy Cheney, director of government relations, South Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society, and Yardley Steedly, S.C. director of government relations, the American Heart Association.
Letter to the Editor
The South Carolina state Senate can play a pivotal role in improving critical health concerns by passing legislation to increase our state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to at least a dollar a pack. Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death in this state.
It costs each household in South Carolina an estimated $560 annually for smoking-caused government expenditures, regardless of whether a household member smokes.
We all know health care costs from smoking are enormous, in tax dollars and medical costs. Often overlooked is the personal cost of lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease to those stricken and to their families, friends and co-workers. Almost everyone has had that experience.
H.3584, legislation to increase our seven-cent cigarette tax, was sent to the Senate nearly a year ago. Our state is contemplating deep budget cuts with severe consequences that will affect many of our citizens. Increasing the cigarette tax will reduce overall smoking (and youth initiation to smoking) while raising state revenues at the same time. Bringing H.3584 to a vote in the Senate cannot come soon enough.
A significant cigarette tax increase is a win-win-win solution for South Carolina. It is a public health win that will reduce smoking and save lives, a fiscal win that will raise needed revenue and reduce smoking-caused health care costs, and a political win because raising cigarette taxes has the strong support of the public.
How many reasons do we need?
June Deen
Director of Advocacy
American Lung Association in South Carolina and Georgia
Gadsden Street
Columbia
This letter was also signed by: Nancy Cheney, director of government relations, South Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society, and Yardley Steedly, S.C. director of government relations, the American Heart Association.
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