Tag: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA Approves Amendment for PRRT Clinical Trial in Texas
BREAKING NEWS: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the RadioIsotope Therapy of America (RITA) Foundation’s amendment to the Investigational New Drug (IND) protocol for intra-hepatic artery administration of Lu-177 Octreotate…
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Up-to-the-Minute: News for the Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Community
The first device that simultaneously performs PET and MRI scans, a new alpha-emitter-based therapy for NET cancer patients with progressive therapy-resistant tumors, the first–ever randomized virtual clinical trial, over 100 abstracts on carcinoid…
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Breaking News: FDA Approves Treatment for pNET Patients
For the first time in nearly three decades, there is a new treatment for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor patients! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced its approval of Afinitor© for pNET patients. This is a milestone for the carcinoid/NET…
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Carcinoid Cancer Foundation to Speak on Behalf of NET Cancer Patients at April 12, 2011 FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting
Grace Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer of the Carcinoid Cancer Foundation, will speak at the Open Public Hearing segment during the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting on April 12, 2011 in Silver …
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FDA Approves Novel Radio-peptide Targeted Therapy Clinical Trial for Neuroendocrine Cancer: PRRT (Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy)
For the first time in North America, neuroendocrine cancer patients will have the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial of Lutetieum-177 (LU-177)with Octreotate. Ebrahim S. Delpassand, MD, chief executive officer and medical director of…
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Carcinoid & Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients Invited to FDA Public Hearing
For carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor patients who would like their voices to be heard regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of drugs, biologics, and devices for the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases, you are invited…
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Nutrition & Diet Information for Carcinoid Patients: An Interview with Jeffrey I. Mechanick, MD
“Niacin deficiency, general protein energy deficiency, nutrition problems due to surgery, malnutrition and chronic diarrhea, and the excess metabolism of tryptophan,” are the key nutritional issues for carcinoid patients says endocrinologist…
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