Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - The life-sustaining activities of our kidneys tend to go unnoticed, until they falter or fail. World Kidney Day (http://www.worldkidneyday.org) on March 13th seeks to address this knowledge gap and to boost public awareness of how vital kidney health is to the well-being of ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - The results of a large-scale study of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are not on dialysis, and who have never received a treatment for anaemia before, has found that MIRCERA given at an extended dosing interval once every two weeks effectively corrects anaemia. ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Results of This Trial Further Confirm the Benefit Avastin Brings to Patients With Breast Cancer. Roche announced today that a phase III study in metastatic breast cancer investigating Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with docetaxel chemotherapy compared to docetaxel alone, met its primary endpoint of improving the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Many More Patients Can Now Benefit From Oral Chemotherapy That Significantly Reduces Treatment Time Roche announced today that the European Commission has approved its oral chemotherapy Xeloda (capecitabine) for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer in combination with any chemotherapy in all lines of ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Avastin Receives Broad Label Extension in Europe for the Treatment of Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Roche announced today that the European Commission (EC) has given its approval for the significantly wider use of its anti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) in patients suffering from ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Following an announcement from Schering-Plough, Roche today affirmed the value of PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a) in combination with COPEGUS(R) (Roche's brand of ribavirin) as the market-leading treatment for patients with hepatitis C. Despite clear biases in the design of the "IDEAL" study that potentially favoured patients taking PegIntron(TM) (peginterferon alfa-2b) regimens ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - For non US or non UK Media Only - Oral Chemotherapy Tablet Option Reduces the Time Patients Need to Spend in the Hospital Data recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm oral chemotherapy tablet Xeloda (capecitabine) as a first-line ...
Basel (ots/PRNewswire) - - Avastin Offers Patients the Chance to Live Twice as Long Without Their Disease Advancing Avastin (bevacizumab), Roche's innovative anti-cancer drug, was approved today in Europe for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell cancer (RCC) in combination with interferon (IFN), the current standard of care[*]. ...
San Antonio, Texas (ots/PRNewswire) - - Roche in Collaboration With Genentech Commit to Large Phase III Adjuvant Clinical Programme Set to Unlock Avastin's Potential in Early Breast Cancer According to new phase II study data, Avastin (bevacizumab) can proceed to be tested after breast cancer surgery in combination with anthracycline containing regimens. ...
San Antonio, Texas (ots/PRNewswire) - - Studies Show Breast Cancer Patients Benefit From Continued Use of Herceptin After Progression of the Disease Data presented at the 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium confirm that Herceptin is the standard of care for women with HER2-positive breast ...
San Antonio, Texas (ots/PRNewswire) - New data presented today at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) show that adding Xeloda (capecitabine) to the current gold standard combination of Herceptin (trastuzumab) and docetaxel allows patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer to live, on average 5 ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Physicians Will be Able to Prescribe MabThera With Their Preferred Chemotherapy Regimen as Initial Treatment Roche announced today that the European Union's Committee on Human Medical Products (CHMP) has given a positive recommendation for extension of the MabThera ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Roche has received positive recommendations for the Marketing Authorisation extensions for both its anti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) and oral chemotherapy Xeloda (capecitabine) from the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). The ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Higher Response Rates Seen in Untreated and Relapsed CLL Patients For non-US media only Abstract Number: 626 Abstract Number: 752 Early results from two phase II trials tracking the outcome of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) who were treated with the innovative cancer therapy MabThera ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Phase II Results Suggest Avastin Can be Used in Curative Setting Date Experts attending the 30th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) December 13-16, will be amongst the first to hear new data that highlight further advances in the treatment of breast ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 20 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Annals of Oncology Paper Suggests That Oral Agents Such as Xeloda, Which are Proven to be Equally Effective and Have a Tolerable Side Effect Profile, Should Replace Traditional Intravenous Chemotherapy A review paper in Annals of Oncology now ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 16 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Avastin Offers Patients the Chance to Live Twice as Long Without Their Disease Advancing Roche announced today that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive recommendation for Avastin (bevacizumab) for ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 7 (ots/PRNewswire) - - TOWARD Study, Presented at Major US Congress ACR, Confirms IL-6 Receptor Inhibition Plays a Key Role in the Treatment of RA The innovative new rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra (tocilizumab) has been shown to significantly improve the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients who failed to ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 5 (ots/PRNewswire) - -Low Haemoglobin Levels Associated With Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death Data from the analysis of six major trials for the innovative new renal anaemia treatment MIRCERA, have shown that it effectively corrects and maintains haemoglobin ...
Boston, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire) - - This Landmark Study Also Shows Response at 12 Weeks is a Powerful Predictor of Eventual Treatment Success. Roche today announced final results from the REPEAT study, which demonstrate that treatment with once-weekly PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a(40KD)) and ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Roche Progresses R1626 Into Phase IIb Study Called POLI 1 R1626, one of Roche's new investigational drugs for hepatitis C (HCV), has shown promising antiviral efficacy when given in combination with PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a (40KD)) and COPEGUS(R) (ribavirin), according to results being presented at ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - A new study on pain published today has found that subcutaneous (SC) injections of the new renal anaemia therapy MIRCERA is associated with significantly less pain immediately after injection than SC darbepoetin-alfa (Aranesp).(1) These findings are important because to date there has been minimal data regarding SC injection ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - MAXIMA Findings in the Lancet Affirm Ability to Maintain Haemoglobin Levels With Less Frequent Dosing A pivotal study published today in the Lancet has shown that dialysis patients can be effectively switched from frequently dosed anaemia drugs to an innovative new ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Ten abstracts providing new analyses of data from six major Phase III renal anaemia studies for MIRCERA(R) will be published/presented at the upcoming 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) in San Francisco on 2 - 5 November. Among the highlights will be new analyses from 'maintenance' studies ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - - Abstract no: 2030, Being Presented at ECCO in the "Proffered Papers: Breast Cancer - Early Disease" Session in the Forum, Starting at 09.00am on Wednesday 26th September 2007 - For non-US Media Only New data show that the addition of Herceptin(R) (trastuzumab) ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Abstract no: 1LB, being presented at ECCO "Gastrointestinal malignancies - colorectal cancer 1" session in room 110, starting at 09.00 on Tuesday 25 September 2007 BARCELONA, Spain, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - 5 Year Data Confirm Superiority of Xeloda Over the Mayo Clinic Regimen in Treating Colon Cancer Five-year follow-up data from the X-ACT trial presented today ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Abstract no: 1LB, being presented at ECCO "Gastrointestinal malignancies - colorectal cancer 1" session in room 110, starting at 09.00 on Tuesday 25 September 2007 BARCELONA, Spain, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - 5 Year Data Confirm Superiority of Xeloda Over the Mayo Clinic Regimen in Treating Colon Cancer Five-year follow-up data from the X-ACT trial presented today ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - - Largest Series of Patients With Successful Surgery Reported in Large, Prospective Clinical Trial - Abstract no: 3020, Being Presented at ECCO in Room 115-116, Starting at 12:15 on Monday 24th September 2007 - For non-US Media Only New data from the large international First BEAT trial unveiled today at the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - PROPHESYS Will Identify Factors That Influence Early Response to Treatment Roche announces the start of a large multinational observational study, called PROPHESYS, in patients with hepatitis C (HCV). This international cohort study will evaluate the important factors that give hepatitis C patients the best chance of treatment success with PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon ...
Seoul, Korea (ots/PRNewswire) - Patients worldwide with advanced lung cancer can expect longer survival according to new data from the TRUST study presented at the 12th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Seoul, Korea. These new worldwide observations show that patients suffering from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and treated with Tarceva (erlotinib) in routine clinical practice are experiencing ...