Regorafenib Prolongs Survival After Colorectal Cancer Therapies Fail

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2012 Jan 27, S London

SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - Adding the oral, investigational multikinase inhibitor regorafenib to best supportive care for metastatic colorectal cancer resulted in a modest but statistically significant increase in median overall survival in the phase III CORRECT trial.The 760-patient study was stopped early, so that patients in a control group could receive the study drug, researchers reported at the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.Regorafenib...

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