The opinion supports 700 mg every 6 weeks after 12 weeks of 350 mg every 3 weeks; a European Commission decision is expected in the coming months.
|Videos|March 23, 2011
Dr. Kris on the Crizotinib Clinical Trials
Author(s)Mark G. Kris, MD, FASCO
Dr. Mark G. Kris from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on the Crizotinib Clinical Trials
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Mark G. Kris, MD, chief of the Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, describes the goal in cancer care has been to know enough about cancer to find a characteristic that is a weakness to the cancer and exploit it.
When discussing the clinical trial Kris explains that only patients with an EML4-ALK translocation were allowed into the crizotinib clinical trial. He compares crizotinib to imatinib in BCR-ABL patients.
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