Sprycel for treating colon and rectal cancer
Dasatinib, also known as Sprycel, is a cancer drug produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb and sold under the trade name Sprycel. It is a drug that is approved by the FDA for chronic myelogenous leukemia. It has certain boplogical efects that raised the hope that it might be able to affect colon cancer. Unfortunately, thus far one phase II trial(Nautiyal et al) showed that Dasatinib is inactive in previously treated metastatic colorectal patients patients.
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