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Addition of ramucirumab to docetaxel extends PFS in advanced urothelial cancer
The addition of ramucirumab to docetaxel conferred a small but statistically significant PFS benefit for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer whose disease progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy, according to results of a randomized phase 3 study presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Annual Meeting.
The numerical improvement in PFS equated to less than 2 months. However, a higher objective response rate in the experimental treatment group helps demonstrate the benefit ramucirumab (Cyramza, Eli Lilly) can have for this patient population, Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, professor of medicine and urology at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, told HemOnc Today.
Source: Healio